IN Series will open its 2026–27 season with “The M.A.K.A.do: Make America Kingly Again! An Operatico-Politico-Buffo-Satirico…” this October. The new satirical reimagining of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” will take the stage at The Kogod Cradle at the Arena Stage Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, D.C. from Oct. 10 through 18 before moving to the Baltimore Theater Project {…}
IN Series’s 2026-27 season is announced. “The Makado” features Hayley Abramowitz, Andrew Adelsberger, Melanie Ashkar, Allan Palacios Chan, Teresa Ferrara, Robin McGinness, Cecelia McKinley, Noah Mond, and Hunter Shaner. Corinne Hayes and Timothy Nelson serve as directors. Dana Scott is the musical director. Performance Dates: October 10 – 25, 2026 Maribeth Diggle, Cecelia McKinley, Melissa Wimbish, and Jonathan Woody star {…}
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, {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}
(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 {…}
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 {…}
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,’ {…}
