Fly is a soaring piece of work that portrays a sense of the battles faced by the Tuskegee Airmen even before they took to the sky. Co- written by Ricardo Khan and Trey Ellis, and beautifully directed by Khan, Fly brings history to life in depicting four black aviators who beat the odds and flew […]
Fly
Co-author and director Ricardo Khan talks about Fly
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen gets set to open Ford’s Theatre’s season. Ricardo Khan is a man of the theatre. He is the co-founder and former artistic director of the Tony Award-winning Crossroads Theatre Company, one of the premiere African-American theatres in the country. Khan is used to telling stories through the medium of […]
1776
As a great “temple” to American history, Ford’s Theatre is a perfect venue for 1776, a revival of Sherman Edwards’ and Peter Stone’s musical about the Second Continental Congress and the writing and signing of the Declaration of Independence. Director Peter Flynn has grouped the hallowed fathers on Tony Cisek’s step-leveled set, composing them in […]
Ford’s Theatre goes (mostly) with the familiar in 2012-2013
Ford’s Theatre will focus on classic stories during its 2012-2013 season, the company announced last night, but will also feature Fly, a Lincoln Legacy Project production about the Tuskegee Airmen which has already played to acclaim in New Jersey and Massachusetts.
Jennifer Nelson on directing Necessary Sacrifices
Jennifer L. Nelson is the Director of Special Programming at Ford’s Theatre, and the director of their most recent production, Necessary Sacrifices. This new drama — the fourth commission by playwright Bill Hellesen for Ford’s — examines a series of historic interactions between Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln, who both find themselves at extraordinary moments in their lives and […]
Craig Wallace agrees to step in for Toney in Necessary Sacrifices
Ford Theatre adds five performance dates Local actor Craig Wallace will replace David Emerson Toney as Frederick Douglass in Richard Helleson’s three-actor Necessary Sacrifices, Ford’s Theatre announced late yesterday.
Preview performances of Necessary Sacrifices have been canceled
Ford’s Theatre just announced that due to a private health matter, David Emerson Toney has withdrawn from the cast of the Ford’s Theatre Society production of Necessary Sacrifices.
A Conversation on Race and Performance with Parade’s Kevin McAllister
Once headed for a career in opera, Kevin McAllister is giving three breakout performances in the musical Parade at Ford’s Theatre If the 1913 criminal trial of Leo Frank – and the lynching that followed two years later – seems to you like uncomfortable fodder for a Tony Award-winning musical, actor Kevin McAllister can relate. “The […]
Parade
Now that the western sun has set on Arena Stage’s Oklahoma!, Washington is in danger of being bereft of glorious singing voices and exemplary choral work. That void will be filled by Ford Theatre’s thrillingly sung Parade, a co-production with Theater J, directed with skill and sensitivity by Stephen Rayne.