Kennedy Center's 2010-2011 Season to Include Revival of Follies, Plus Concerts by Foster, O'Hara & More

The 2010-2011 theater season at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington will include a new production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies as well as Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan (from Ireland's Druid Theatre) and concerts featuring Sutton Foster, Kelli O’Hara and more.

Follies will be revived at the Eisenhower Theatre in a production running May 7-June 5, 2011. No casting or director have been set. Touring productions of the Broadway musicals Hair, South Pacific, Wicked and Next to Normal will also make stops in D.C.

Continuing its successful cabaret series “Barbara Cook’s Spotlight,” concerts have been set for Broadway favorites Kelli O’Hara (October 15), Ashley Brown (November 19), Norm Lewis (December 10), Sutton Foster (January 14, 2011), Tammy Grimes (January 28) and Alexander Gemignani (April 1).

The season kicks off with the North American premiere of the Chekhov International Theatre Festival’s productions of Three Sisters and Twelfth Night, performed in Russian with English surtitles (October 19-23). The Druid production of Cripple of Inishmaan, directed by Garry Hynes, will run February 8-12. Peter Brook’s 11 and 12, set in French-occupied West Africa, runs April 14-17. Also on tap is I Wish You Love, a new production looking at the African-American community of 1957 set to the words and music of Nat “King” Cole, a co-production of the Penumbra Theatre Company of St. Paul, Mnnesota (June 11-19, 2011).