Theater: 2005-2006 Events

Past Events

• Wicked

  Dec 21, 2005 - Jan 15, 2006
  The untold story of the witches of Oz is the most spellbinding new Broadway musical in years.

• The Subject Was Roses

  Jan 7 - 29, 2006
  A young man returns from WWII to find his parents are strangers--to him and each other--in this powerful drama that won the Pulitzer Prize and Best Play Tony Award(r) in 1965.

• Royal Shakespeare Company: The Canterbury Tales, Part 1

  Apr 15 - May 6, 2006
  The RSC presents a brand-new adaptation of Chaucer's timeless classic about a boisterous and bawdy storytelling competition.

• Royal Shakespeare Company: The Canterbury Tales, Part 2

  Apr 19 - May 7, 2006
  The RSC presents a brand-new adaptation of Chaucer's timeless classic about a boisterous and bawdy storytelling competition.

• Mame

  May 27 - Jul 2, 2006
  Tony and Emmy winner Christine Baranski stars as madcap Mame in an all-new Kennedy Center production of the delightful musical.

• Love-Lies-Bleeding

  Jun 17 - 25, 2006
  Steppenwolf Theatre Company co-produces Don DeLillo's riveting drama as part of The Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays.

• Little Women, the Broadway Musical

  Jun 27 - Jul 23, 2006
  Join the remarkable March sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--as one of America's most beloved books soars to the stage starring Maureen McGovern.

• The Reduced Shakespeare Company: The Complete History of America (abridged)

  Jul 5 - 28, 2006
  600 years of history is covered in 6,000 seconds! The three cultural guerillas of the Reduced Shakespeare Company take audiences on a ninety-minute roller coaster ride through the glorious quagmire that is American history.

• The Reduced Shakespeare Company: All the Great Books (abridged)

  Jul 11 - 30, 2006
  From a reduced Proust to a short Longfellow, "this trio of modern Marx Brothers will have you in stitches" (The Boston Herald) as they compress 83 of history's preeminent tomes into ninety-eight minutes.

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