Theater: 2011-2012 Events

Upcoming Events

• First You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb

  Jun. 8 - Jul. 1, 2012 | Buy Now
  Come hear the music play! Celebrate the songwriting team who created Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Zorba, and many more in this musical revue featuring a cast of 6 backed by a 23-piece orchestra.

• Memphis

  Jun. 12 - Jul. 1, 2012 | Buy Now
  This four-time Tony Award winner, including Best Musical, begs you to turn up the dial. Inspired by actual events, Memphis introduces a white radio DJ who wants to change the world and a black club singer who is ready for her big break.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Barbara Cook

  Jun. 15 - 16, 2012 | Buy Now
  The silvery soprano who knows how to work the spotlight, legendary Broadway star Barbara Cook (Candide, The Music Man, She Loves Me) takes the stage in her own series for the final Spotlight performances of the season.

• The Addams Family

  Jul. 10 - 29, 2012 | Buy Now
  The Addams Family brings the darkly delirious world of Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Grandma, Wednesday, Pugsley and, of course, Lurch to life. It's a "classic, full-tilt, fast paced, old-fashioned musical comedy!" (Chicago Tribune).

Past Events

• Sydney Theatre Company's Uncle Vanya

  Aug. 4 - 27, 2011
  Sydney Theatre Company returns with an exclusive U.S. engagement of Andrew Upton's new adaptation of Chekhov's tragicomedy Uncle Vanya, starring Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh, Jacki Weaver, and Hugo Weaving.

• Les Misérables

  Sep. 28 - Oct. 30, 2011
  Cameron Mackintosh presents a new 25th anniversary production of Boublil and Schönberg's legendary musical, Les Misérables, featuring glorious new staging and spectacular reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo.

• Lemieux Pilon 4D Art: Norman

  Oct. 6 - 8, 2011
  Montreal-based company Lemieux Pilon 4D Art presents Norman, a tribute to pioneer filmmaker Norman McLaren where film and theater collide as projected holograms inhabit the stage with live actors.

• Mabou Mines DollHouse

  Oct. 20 - 22, 2011
  Director Lee Breuer adapted Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House to deconstruct the mythic feminist anthem by physicalizing power and scale with little men dominating and commanding women nearly twice their size.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Euan Morton

  Fri., Oct. 28, 2011, 7:30 PM
  He's sung on Broadway in Sondheim on Sondheim and Taboo and regionally in Signature Theatre's Chess. Now, Scottish singer Euan Morton performs in this theater cabaret series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Alexandra Silber

  Fri., Dec. 2, 2011, 7:30 PM
  Alexandra Silber has lit up West End stages in Carousel and Fiddler on the Roof as well as the Kennedy Center's own Master Class. See her in the spotlight in this theater cabaret series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• Billy Elliot the Musical

  Dec. 13, 2011 - Jan. 15, 2012
  Heart and humor make Billy Elliot the Musical "the best show you'll ever see" (New York Post) and earned it the 2009 Tony Award for Best Musical. Experience this joyous celebration of one boy's journey to make his dreams come true.

• Ann

  Dec. 17, 2011 - Jan. 15, 2012
  Emmy Award–winning stage and screen actress Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men) brings audiences a hilarious, inspiring, and no-holds-barred look at Ann Richards, the unforgettable Governor of the Lone Star State.

• La Cage aux Folles

  Jan. 17 - Feb. 12, 2012
  Winner of three Tony Awards, Entertainment Weekly calls La Cage Aux Folles "hilarious and deeply moving!" It's a tuneful and touching tale of one family's struggle to stay together…stay fabulous…and above all else, stay true to themselves!

• Katona Jozsef Theatre's Gypsies

  Mar. 15 - 17, 2012
  Katona József Theatre, one of Hungary's most well-respected theater companies, performs Gypsies, which chronicles the love, tensions, and conflicts that arise among Gypsy musicians and Hungarians in the countryside.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Emily Skinner

  Fri., Apr. 13, 2012, 7:30 PM
  With Broadway credits including The Full Monty, Side Show, and Billy Elliot the Musical, Emily Skinner returns to the Kennedy Center spotlight in this theater cabaret series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• Come Fly Away

  Apr. 18 - 29, 2012
  Ol' Blue Eyes' greatest hits soar in a new way in Twyla Tharp's Broadway musical Come Fly Away. Live music and Sinatra vocals swirl in with "fast, flashing, remarkably intricate dances" (The New York Times) in this swinging show.

• Barbara Cook's Spotlight: Aaron Lazar

  Fri., May 4, 2012, 7:30 PM
  Broadway actor and singer Aaron Lazar (Les Misérables, A Little Night Music, The Light in the Piazza) performs in this theater cabaret series curated by Broadway legend Barbara Cook.

• The Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company

  May 17 - 19, 2012
  Last seen at the Kennedy Center in 2008 as part of the JAPAN: culture + hyperculture festival, the Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company brings three kyogen works.

All programs are subject to change. List of all Theater Performances