Arena Stage Wash. DC 24/25 season includes Wrinkle in Time premiere

[inception]

Posted: 5/14/24 at 1:50pm

Washington DC's Arena Stage has announced their 24/25 season. 

 

https://playbill.com/article/a-wrinkle-in-time-musical-to-premiere-at-arena-stage-in-washington-d-c

 

For myself, I will be able to see the new John Leguizamo play, which is a bit exciting. 

I saw the San Diego Globe production of this version of The Age of Innocence set for next February/March & it was a bit of a snooze fest.

Updated On: 5/14/24 at 01:50 PM

[fosterfan2]

Posted: 5/14/24 at 7:36pm

I wonder if Katrina Lenk will reprise her role of Mrs. Whatsit that she played last summer. It wasn't a lead role,but I read that it was a great part for her that let her shine.

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 5/14/24 at 8:03pm

I enjoyed the reading of this last summer. It was very much a work in progress, but I thought the music was really nice and the cast did a great job with it. Wishing it success.

[RW3]

Posted: 5/14/24 at 9:22pm

Does anyone have any idea what the “new musical to be announced” could be?

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 4/29/25 at 10:55am

Arena Stage has revealed the cast and creative team for A Wrinkle in Time, an interstellar world-premiere musical adaptation based on the classic novel by Madeleine L'Engle that has captured the hearts and imaginations of generations. Featuring a book by Doris Duke Artist Award recipient Lauren Yee (Cambodian Rock Band) and music and lyrics by two-time Obie Award winner Heather Christian (Oratorio for Living Things), A Wrinkle in Time will run June 12 – July 20, 2025, in Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theater, directed by two-time Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans. 

Staging this intergalactic voyage will be Nicholas Barrón (New York City Center’s Ragtime) as Calvin, Tony nominee Amber Gray (Broadway’s Hadestown) as Mrs. Whatsit, Taylor Iman Jones (Broadway’s Six) as Meg Murry, Vicki Lewis (Broadway’s Damn Yankees) as Mrs. Which, Mateo Lizcano (Broadway’s Kimberly Akimbo) as Charles Wallace, and Stacey Sargeant (Broadway’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf) as Mrs. Who.

The gravity-defying ensemble for A Wrinkle in Time will include Leanne Antonio (Broadway’s The Lion King), Michael Di Liberto (Broadway’s Tammy Faye), Kimberly Dodson (Broadway’s Summer), Andrea Jones-Sojola (Broadway’s The Music Man), Aidan Joyce (Monumental Theatre Company’s Spring Awakening), Rebecca Madeira (Signature Theatre’s Sweeney Todd), Gabrielle Rice (Signature Theatre’s The Color Purple), Jon Patrick Walker (Hamilton National Tour), Ronald Joe Williams (Arena’s Unknown Soldier), and Jayke Workman (Broadway’s Chicago). The company is rounded out by swings Alex De Bard (Signature Theatre’s Hair), Edward Simon (Signature Theatre’s Ragtime), Dillan James Smith (PAW Patrol Live!), and Alyssa Enita Stanford (Asolo Rep’s Beautiful: The Carole King Musical).

[Valentina3]

Posted: 6/14/25 at 11:01am

Anyone seen this yet? Curious to hear the reports, I'm thinking of watching it soonish

[Jmuep2]

Posted: 6/15/25 at 11:13pm

I was at the second preview Friday night. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. I left at intermission. The first act felt like six hours long and nobody around me was tracking what was going on. Probably because we were all worried about our ears bleeding. In all the music, there was maybe 1/2 a tune present. I don't know who decided to program this, but they should be fired. The only way to save this is to scrap the creative team and start over from scratch. I could go into more details as to what is wrong, but that's like asking somebody to write an essay describing manure. No matter how many words you use to describe it, it's still manure. 

[Valentina3]

Posted: 6/17/25 at 11:05pm

Jmuep2 said: "I was at the second preview Friday night. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. I left at intermission. The first act felt like six hours long and nobody around me was tracking what was going on. Probably because we were all worried about our ears bleeding. In all the music, there was maybe 1/2 a tune present. I don't know who decided to program this, but they should be fired. The only way to save this is to scrap the creative team and start over from scratch. I could go into more details as to what is wrong, but that's like asking somebody to write an essay describing manure. No matter how many words you use to describe it, it's still manure."

Oh no, that's disappointing. The cast is so promising.

[MezzA101]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 7:38am

Jesse Green Review: A New ‘Wrinkle in Time’ Needs to Iron Out Some Problems

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/theater/review-wrinkle-in-time-dc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S08.XPg2.lmCHtGDmPbPd&smid=nytcore-android-share

[The Bittersweets]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 9:25am

I was there on opening night (and at NYSAF) and generally agree with Jesse’s review. Somewhere in here are the bones of a good show: this is most evident in Christian’s score. The music is spectacular. The book feels muddled, and it’s often a bit hard to follow the specifics of this story even as someone who read the book. I don’t remember this being such a problem back at NYSAF, but I think some of the character moments didn’t survive the trip to DC. These issues feel fixable to me, and if the creative team really sits down and figures out how to convey this story clearly, much of the material is already there for a great show.

As for the direction/technical elements, I found myself yearning for a truly show stopping coup-de-theatre, something like the swinging lights or the expanding set of Hadestown… I appreciate how down to earth the direction was, but this is quite literally a story about interstellar travel! I wish we could see something that left me as breathless as the music.