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2024-2025 Theater Season

2024-2025 SEASON
Theater

Experience a season of Broadway’s best and beyond! Enjoy award-winning musicals with new voices for the songs you love, exciting approaches to storytelling, and more.

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Events Included in this Season

& Juliet

Dec. 17, 2024 - Jan. 5, 2025

Created by the Emmy® Award–winning writer from Schitt’s Creek, this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. & Juliet asks: What would happen next if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo? Get whisked away on a fabulous journey as she ditches her famous ending for a fresh beginning and a second chance at life and love—her way.

Life of Pi

Dec. 17, 2024 - Jan. 5, 2025

Based on the novel that sold more than 15 million copies and became a worldwide phenomenon, Life of Pi is an epic story of perseverance and hope that speaks to every generation and “gives new life to Broadway” (The Today Show). After a shipwreck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi survives on a lifeboat with four companions—a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a Royal Bengal tiger.

Shear Madness

Oct. 1, 2024 - Oct. 5, 2025

Set today in the Shear Madness hairstyling salon, this record-breaking comedy is Washington’s hilarious whodunit. After more than 17,800 performances, the show has stayed in great shape. Performances are ongoing.

All ages welcomed, recommended for 13+

Schmigadoon!

Jan. 31 - Feb. 9, 2025

Based on the hit Apple TV series!

Introducing Schmigadoon!, the world-premiere musical of the Emmy Award®–winning hit show. New York doctors Josh and Melissa go backpacking in a last-ditch attempt to save their failing relationship, but instead get lost in the woods and end up trapped in Schmigadoon, a magical town that’s a classic Golden Age musical come to life!

RIVERDANCE 30 – The New Generation

Mar. 4 - 16, 2025

Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its Grammy Award®–winning fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions. Now the show is embarking on a special anniversary tour, bringing its magic to audiences worldwide.

Eureka Day

Mar. 4 - 22, 2025

Wildly relevant and bitingly funny, Eureka Day comes to the Kennedy Center in an exclusive engagement direct from the Manhattan Theatre Club on Broadway!

Jonathan Spector’s play, directed by Tony Award® winner Anna D. Shapiro, is set in a private California elementary school with a Board of Directors that values inclusion above all else—that is, until an outbreak of the mumps forces everyone in the community to reconsider the school’s liberal vaccine policy. As cases rise, the board realizes with horror that they’ve got to do what they swore they never would: make a choice that won’t please absolutely everybody.

Legally Blonde

Jun. 6 - 15, 2025

The fabulous, feminist modern classic! When the effervescent Elle Woods is dumped by her boyfriend, she follows him to Harvard Law School, determined to win him back. But what starts as a plot to regain her relationship turns into much more as Elle realizes her true potential—in law, love, and life. Legally Blonde is a hilarious, inspirational romp that proves you don’t have to change who you are to achieve your dreams.

On Sale to Members Tue. Jan. 28, 2025 10a.m.

Les Misérables

Jun. 11 - Jul. 13, 2025

Since its pre-Broadway run at the Kennedy Center in 1986, Les Misérables has changed the world of musical theater. Now, Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Boublil & Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning phenomenon returns to the Opera House after its sold-out run in 2023. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, the musical tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice, and redemption—a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit.

Bluey returns!

Jul. 9 - 20, 2025

The Heelers, your favorite family from Bluey, return to the Kennedy Center next summer! More details to come, but get your seats now!

On Sale to Members Tue. Jan. 28, 2025 10a.m.

Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson

Jul. 11 - 13, 2025

Chris Grace, Jerry from NBC’s Superstore and “America’s 88th-most beloved Chinese actor” (his own words), celebrates the life of the greatest Asian-American actor of all time: Scarlett Johansson. Inspired by the actress’s infamous starring role in the 2017 Ghost in the Shell, Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson reimagines what is and isn’t possible—or appropriate—in the life of an artist.

On Sale to Members Tue. Jan. 28, 2025 10a.m.

Dungeons & Dragons The Twenty-Sided Tavern

Jul. 22 - Aug. 3, 2025

Calling all adventurers. Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the world’s greatest role-playing game in the most epic way imaginable….an interactive adventure live on stage for you and a room full of your newest friends! Dungeons & Dragons The Twenty-Sided Tavern is the game you love, but bigger and better than ever. Solve puzzles, explore hidden secrets, and conquer in action—this is the adventure you’ve been waiting for!

On Sale to Members Tue. Jan. 28, 2025 10a.m.

PARADE

Aug. 19 - Sep. 7, 2025

Leo and Lucille Frank are a newly wed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in the old red hills of Georgia. When Leo is accused of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice, and devotion. Riveting and gloriously hopeful, PARADE reminds us that to love, we must truly see one another.

On Sale to Members

The Sound of Music

Sep. 9 - Oct. 5, 2025

Sixty-five years after its original stage debut, a critically acclaimed North American tour of The Sound of Music will transport the next generation of theatergoers to the hills of Austria. Directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Jack O’Brien, the smash-hit musical classic will once again grace stages across the country, captivating audiences with its universal themes of love, resilience, and the power of music.

On Sale to Members Tue. Feb. 25, 2025 10a.m.

Watch a Sneak Preview

Watch scenes from the thrilling 2024-2025 season of Theater at the Kennedy Center!

Scenes from the 2024-2025 Kennedy Center Theater Season

Watch a Sneak Preview

Watch scenes from the thrilling 2024-2025 season of Theater at the Kennedy Center!

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More than 2,000 Performances of Theater, Dance, and Music

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