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Round House Theatre is proud to present the fifth Bonnie Hammerschlag National Capital New Play Festival, an annual event celebrating new work by some of the country’s leading playwrights and newer voices. In addition to a fully staged world premiere (part of Round House’s main stage season), audiences are invited to readings of plays in development, where they can sit alongside dramaturgs, directors, and other theatre professionals for an inside look into a play’s journey to the stage.

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The Bonnie Hammerschlag National Capital New Play Festival

Round House Theatre

Longy’s Opera Experience Live! presents The Mad Ones by Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk

In this off-Broadway show, we meet 18-year-old Samantha Brown who is caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation. She relives her just completed senior year though flashbacks and imaginations that help her explain the pain of losing her best friend. Sam’s well-intentioned helicopter mother Bev, her high school sweetheart of a boyfriend Adam, and her spontaneous and rule breaking best friend Kelly help push Sam to break rules and do the unexpected. Sam is faced with the decision: Will she follow someone else’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?

Opera Experience LIVE! | The Mad Ones

Longy School of Music of Bard College

The Mad Ones by Bree Lowermil and Kait Kerrigan follows the powerful story of 18-year-old Samantha Brown as she contemplates her future after experiencing a tragic loss her senior year. 

The Mad Ones - Musical

University of Wisconsin–Green Bay

Boston Conservatory at Berklee presents The Mad Ones by Bree Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan.

The Mad Ones

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

MTC’s recent Mellon National Playwright in Residence Lauren Gunderson returns, partnering with award-winning composer/lyricist duo Bree Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan to present a new version of their groundbreaking musical fresh from its world premiere last Spring at Arizona Theatre Company (Sean Daniels, Artistic Director and Geri Wright, Managing Director). JUSTICE features the "firsts" of the Supreme Court Justices.In an intimate, epic new musical built with sweeping songs, urgent conversations about equality, and truly human heroines, JUSTICE explores the first women on the U.S. Supreme Court – Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor – at the height of their power. Following the fraught confirmation process of Justice Sotomayor, we uncover the true sisterhood of these three iconic Americans as they inspire, challenge, and usher in the next generation of changemakers and trailblazers in American jurisprudence, while fighting private battles of their own. They confront and comfort each other about equal justice under the law, legal strategy, civic responsibility, as well as husbands, motherhood, kids, dreams, and sorrows, all while setting a new course for our country and the world.

Composer

Bree Lowdermilk

Events

Past events

Feb 11 - Mar 15, 2026

The Bonnie Hammerschlag National Capital New Play Festival · Round House Theatre

Apr 30 - May 1, 2025

Opera Experience LIVE! | The Mad Ones · Longy School of Music of Bard College

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