Olney Theatre Heart, Maryland’s largest regional theater, produces Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables within the Roberts Mainstage (October 30, 2026 – January 31, 2027) in celebration of the musical’s fortieth anniversary. This continues Olney Theatre’s custom of offering in style musicals with multi-generational attraction to native audiences and guests over the vacation season. This 12 months, Tony Award-nominated director Stephen Brackett returns to direct the manufacturing, having final directed Cinco Paul’s critically acclaimed A.D. 16 at Olney in 2022. Trent Saunders, who garnered important approval for his efficiency within the Broadway firm of Useless Outlaw, stars as Jean Valjean, reverse Kevin S. McAllister, a veteran of a number of Broadway and Olney musicals, who just lately directed Ford’s Theater’s heralded manufacturing of Come From Away. Christopher Youstra, Olney’s Affiliate Inventive Director of Music Theatre, once more serves as Music Director, and William Carlos Angulo is the choreographer.
Says Olney Theatre’s Inventive Director Jason Loewith, “It’s not typically that Les Misérables turns into accessible for regional theaters to provide, so I leapt on the alternative when it arose. Like every nice basic, Les Miz feels up-to-the-minute related, with very important truths to inform in regards to the wrestle for freedom, the lengths we’ll go to for these we love, and the facility of mercy and humility when mixed with ardour. And this manufacturing lastly offers our area’s greatest actors their shot at iconic roles: our personal Kevin S. McAllister, who tackles one in every of his bucket-list roles in Javert; Alex De Bard returning for her third vacation musical (Frozen and Howdy, Dolly!) as Eponine, and who isn’t excited to see Tracy Lynn Olivera tear it up as Mme. Thenardier?”
The solid additionally options Stephanie Waters as Fantine. Ms. Waters is returning after virtually a decade away from the stage; earlier than elevating her three youngsters, she starred as Cosette on Broadway and within the Nationwide Tour of Les Misérables. Quynh-My Luu (Magnificence and the Beast) steps into the position of Cosette for the Olney manufacturing, and Ben Clark stars because the love-struck Marius. Jordan Good friend joins Olivera as M. Thenardier, whereas Tyler Dobies (Frozen) leads the Paris rebellion as Enjolras, together with Dylan Arredondo (Fiddler on the Roof) as Grantaire, Matt Acquard as Combeferre, Jonah Gavi Schwartz (Little Miss Good) as Joly, Matthew Thomas Provencal as Feuilly, and DeCarlo J. Raspberry (A Gentleman’s Information) as Courfeyrac. Levi Gerstenblith and Grayson Lewis share duties as Gavroche/Younger Eponine; whereas Sage McClure and Zoey Ottaviano alternate performances as Little Cosette. The ensemble contains Azaria Oglesby, Brigid Wallace Harper (Acceptable), O’Malley Steuerman, Ariel Pleasant, and Odette Gutierrez del Arroryo. Alexandra Lopez and Walker Vlahos swing the manufacturing. The manufacturing stage supervisor is Karen Currie, together with Assistant Stage Managers Rebecca Talisman and up to date Olney Theatre apprentice Sydney Enthoven.
Brackett, Youstra, and Angulo are joined on the inventive workforce by the Tony-nominated set designer Arnulfo Maldonado (Buena Vista Social Membership), lighting designer Abby Hoke-Brady (Little Miss Good), costume designer Sarah Cubbage (A Gentleman’s Information), longtime Olney Theatre sound designer Matthew Rowe, wig designer LaShawn Melton, and Combat and Intimacy Advisor Casey Kaleba. Additionally engaged on the manufacturing are Ricardo Blagrove (Assistant Director), Joe Burt (Assistant Scenic Designer), Cody Von Ruden (Assistant Costume Designer), and Sage Inexperienced (Assistant Lighting Designer).
Les Misérablesruns October 30, 2026 – January 31, 2027 within the Roberts Mainstage at Olney Theatre Heart, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Rd, Olney, MD. Tickets vary from $57 – $118 and can be found on-line or by calling the field workplace at 301-924-3400.
Reductions for lecturers, lively army, and first responders can be found at: olneytheatre.org/reductions
Efficiency Schedule
Wednesday by way of Saturday evenings at 7:00 pm.
Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday matinees at 1:00 pm.
Choose Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm.
Further performances will happen round Thanksgiving and Winter Break.
See the complete schedule at: https://tickets.olneytheatre.org/overview/lesmiz
Accessible Performances
Audio-Described Efficiency – Wednesday, November 11 at 7:00 pm
ASL Interpreted Efficiency – Thursday, November 12 at 7:30 pm
ABOUT OLNEY THEATRE CENTER
Mission
Olney Theatre Heart for the Arts produces and curates theatrical efficiency for the varied audiences in its group, and educates, learns from, helps and conjures up a extra inclusive era of theater-makers.
Imaginative and prescient
Olney strives to turn out to be an arts and tradition powerhouse, redefining the American regional theater motion by cultivating and sharing the creativity of its group.
Historical past
Based in 1938 as a summer time playhouse, Olney Theatre Heart now produces world and American premieres of performs and musicals, and reimaginings of acquainted titles year-round; presents the work of main corporations and artists; excursions nationally and domestically; teaches college students of all ages; and mentors a extra inclusive era of theater-makers. For greater than 8 a long time, Olney Theatre has introduced impactful theater efficiency and training to its group, serving to to develop the vibrancy and vitality of its house within the Washington, DC area.
Over time, a few of the greatest names in theater and movie have appeared on Olney phases, together with Tallulah Bankhead, Helen Hayes, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Bob Fosse, Phillip Bosco, Eve Arden, Eva Gabor, Burl Ives, Jose Ferrer, Carol Channing, Olivia d’Havilland, Tony Randall, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy and Lillian Gish, Jane Seymour, Anne Revere, Frances Sternhagen, Arthur Treacher, James Broderick, Olympia Dukakis, Sir Ian McKellen, Marcia Homosexual Harden, John Colicos, Uzo Aduba, Alan Cumming, Cheyenne Jackson, Robin de Jesus, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, and Bernadette Peters, amongst many, many others.
Olney Theatre is now the cultural anchor of a quickly altering area and serves one of the vital numerous, best-educated, and wealthiest counties within the nation. Located on the unceded land of the Piscataway-Conoy folks, the Olney space was as soon as a rural farming group with a singular Quaker heritage. Now the world is occupied by each form of household that makes up Twenty first-century America, together with main firms, procuring districts, civic associations, nonprofit organizations, and a various assortment of homes of worship. Montgomery County’s 1 million residents play a dynamic position within the Baltimore-Washington hall and are a driving pressure behind the area’s inventive economic system.
