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Feb 25, 2026

IN Series Becomes Key Collaborator on New Multidisciplinary Arts Hub in Southwest DC

IN Series has announced it will become a primary partner at a new multidisciplinary arts hub opening in early Fall 2026 in Southwest DC. The company joins Theater Alliance and newly founded 4EYE Film Center as anchor tenants at the 9,096 square-foot facility located at 340 Maple Drive SW. The new space will include a 140-seat flexible black box theater, {…}

Passion Plays
Feb 11, 2026

IN Series Set for ‘Passion Plays’ This March & April

Washington, D.C.-based IN Series is set to “Passion Plays,” this March and April. The festival opens with “Only the Air,” featuring music by J.S. Bach with new text by playwrights Joshua Borths and Shana Oshiro. Directed by Timothy Nelson with musical direction by Joy Schreier, the production reimagines Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” with newly spoken text alongside the oratorio’s famed {…}

IN Series
Nov 13, 2025

David Mack Makes History as First Executive Director of IN Series

Washington D.C.’s IN Series has appointed David Mack as its first Executive Director. Mack, a veteran arts executive, producer, and consultant who has positions as General Manager of The Industry and Executive Director of Artist Magnet Justice Alliance, will assume the role on Dec. 1, 2025. “I’m excited to join the D.C. community as IN Series’ inaugural Executive Director as {…}

Geter
Nov 12, 2025

IN Series to World Premiere Damien Geter & Jarrod Lee’s ‘The Delta King’s Blues’

IN Series is set to present the world premiere of “The Delta King’s Blues” this December in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The new blues opera by composer Damien Geter and librettist Jarrod Lee is set in a juke-joint environment and is inspired by the legend of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who made a fateful deal with the devil. “My {…}

May 5, 2025

IN Series Announces 2025-26 Season

IN Series announces its 2025-26 season, “IN Principio” consists solely of premiering works. The world premiere staging of the Baroque work, “St John the Baptist” opens the season. Local singers perform in collaboration with New York’s Catapult Opera and Baltimore-based designers. Performance Dates: October 4 – 19, 2025 Marking IN Series’ first fully commissioned opera, “Delta King’s Blues” is an {…}

Delta King's Blues
Jan 10, 2025

IN Series to Present First Reading of Damien Geter’s Faustian ‘Delta King’s Blues’

IN Series is set to present the first musical reading of Damien Geter and Jarrod Lee’s “Delta King’s Blues.” The reading, set for Jan. 26, 2025, at 4 p.m. at the MLK Library Auditorium in Washington D.C., will feature Curtis Bannister as Robert Johnson, Carl Dupont as the Devil, Melissa Wimbish as Virginia, Marvin Wayne Allen III as Willy, and {…}

Sellars
Mar 28, 2024

IN Series to Honor Peter Sellars at May 2 Gala

(Credit: Ruth Walz) IN Series has announced that it will honor director Peter Sellars during its 2024 Gala. The famed opera director will receive the first-ever June Jordan Award on May 2. The Award recognizes “living creative voices whose body of work reflects the poetic principles exuding the many writings, workings, wonderings of luminary poet and activist June Jordan.” Sellars {…}

Verdi
Oct 28, 2023

IN Series to Present ‘The Promised End’

IN Series will present “The Promised End,” a unique exploration of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and Verdi’s Requiem. The production is set for Nov. 18-Dec. 10 at the Source Theatre and Dec. 15-17, 2023 at the Baltimore Theatre Project. The work, which originally opened in 2018, will feature eight vocal artists, including Teresa Ferrara, Natalie Conte, Elizabeth Mondragon, Gayssie Lugo, Brian {…}

In Series
May 23, 2023

IN Series Announces 2023-24 Season

Washington D.C.-based IN Series Opera has announced its 2023-24 season. “This season explores ‘resurrection,’ bearing out the idea that the making of art is itself an audacious act of hope, of faith, of believing that from nothing something can be made,” Artistic Director Timothy Nelson said in an official press statement. “Art is the purest form of the literal ‘resurrection,’ {…}

I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
Apr 5, 2023

IN Series to Present John Adams’ ‘I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky’

IN Series is set to present John Adams’ “I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky” starting on April 14, 2023. Written by June Jordan, the work presents “events of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake with its searing, compassionate, and prescient exploration of broken justice and migration systems, police violence against young Black men, family border separation and {…}

Jan 27, 2022

IN Series to Celebrate 40th Anniversary with Online Gala

IN Series is set to celebrate its 40th anniversary on Jan. 30, 2022 via Zoom. The Washington-based company will present a program that features an overview of the company’s history and a recognition of its partner venues during that time; a look into the organization’s place in the DC Theater Scene through the eyes of local critics; a preview of {…}

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