A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS
BY PAULA VOGEL
DIRECTED BY TINA LANDAU

It’s 1864, and Washington, D.C. settles down to the coldest Christmas Eve in years - in the White House, where President and Mrs. Lincoln plot their gift-giving; on the banks of the Potomac, where a young rebel challenges a Union blacksmith’s mercy; and in the alleys downtown, where an escaped slave loses her daughter just before finding freedom.

This new musical by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel intertwines many lives showing us that the gladness of one’s heart is the best gift of all.

“Ms. Vogel has a gift for sustaining humor and pathos at the same time, without trivializing either emotion.” - The New York Times