Ford’s Theatre celebrates 40 years of producing A Christmas Carol in 2021. This year’s production features new staging– a deliberate and thoughtful attempt to create a safe environment for the acting company and provide a joyful holiday experience for all who attend. The audio drama is also available for free streaming with registration on www.fords.org, December 3-27, 2021.

Ford’s Theatre staff has developed new Rules of Engagement to help visitors adjust to experiencing theatre at our venue in the midst of the pandemic and beyond.

When Ford’s Theatre offers you the opportunity to leave your mark on the digital world, you gather your classmates and create a podcast! This behind-the-scenes look takes you into the creation and thought process behind a student-led podcast.  

Set in the 1930s, My Lord, What a Night is a new drama based on the real-life friendship between contralto Marian Anderson and physicist Albert Einstein. It may be hard to imagine that one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century and the German-Jewish genius who developed the theory of relativity would have much in common at all. This story based on true events encourages us to think otherwise.

Ford’s Theatre and the Ford’s Theatre Museum are officially reopen to visitors. Hear from our on-site staff about their favorite history facts, what they've missed during the closure and why they're glad to be back.

Ford’s Theatre is a space that lives in the collective imagination, but one that Ford’s artists are intimately acquainted with. Writer and BIPOC Critics Lab Fellow Rishi Mutalik spoke with Ford’s actors, designers, directors and staff to discover what makes the historic theatre and site of President Lincoln’s assassination so very special.

Teachers give first-hand accounts of what it has been like teaching during the year of a pandemic. Through the good and the bad they strive to meet the needs of their students.

Educators and care givers! Trying to figure out ways to use historical content in your teaching? We’re pleased to offer new Teacher Guides covering the robust content on the Lincoln’s Assassination section of www.fords.org.

In 1931, the U.S. Army Adjutant General denied permission to display John Wilkes Booth’s deringer pistol at a new museum at Ford’s Theatre. Today the gun is on display—but with a new sign that asks visitors to consider the ethics of displaying a murder weapon.

You may be surprised to learn that multiple places within the District of Columbia that Lincoln visited are still in existence 155 years later. Which of these have you heard about or visited yourself?