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Plays for Peace

Plays for Peace focuses on mankind's fascination with war, highlighting leadership that prevents war and strives for the common humanity and prosperity that leads to peace.

JOHN RUBINSTEIN
in

BY
RICHARD HELLESEN

DIRECTED BY
PETER ELLENSTEIN

September 27 - October 20, 2024

OLNEY THEATRE
Olney, Maryland

FUTURE PROJECTS

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Necessary Sacrifices

by Richard Hellesen

During the summers of 1863 and 1864, Frederick Douglass challenges Abraham Lincoln to use his power as president to bring truth to America's founding ideal that “all men are created equal.

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A Civil War Christmas

A musical by Paula Vogel

1864, Washington, D.C. in the coldest Christmas Eve in years. In the White House, The Lincolns plot their gift-giving. On the banks of the Potomac, a young rebel challenges a Union blacksmith’s mercy. In the alleys downtown, an escaped slave loses her daughter just before finding freedom.

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