Olney Theatre Middle’s manufacturing of A Gentleman’s Information to Love and Homicide will run within the Roberts Mainstage July 2 – August 23, 2026, directed by Eleanor Holdridge, choreographed by Ashleigh King, and music directed by Christopher Youstra. The musical, with guide and lyrics by Robert L. Freedman, and music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak received 4 Tony Awards in its unique Broadway run, together with Greatest Musical and Greatest Ebook of a Musical. Latest Helen Hayes Award recipient Tom Story (who final appeared at Olney in Matilda as Trunchbull) stars as all the ill-fated D’Ysquith Relations being methodically knocked-off by Montague Navarro, portrayed by Jacob Tischler, who beforehand earned a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Greatest Supporting Actor in a Musical for his flip as Cosmo in Singin’ In The Rain at Olney.
ABOUT THE SHOW
This Tony Award winner for Greatest Musical is a hilarious and lyrical satire of cash, manners, morals, and, sure, homicide. After his mom’s demise, Monty Navarro is shocked and delighted to be taught that she had a secret: she’s associated to the absurdly rich and aristocratic D’Ysquith household. And if, at first, Monty hoped his new relations would possibly present a sorely wanted money infusion, as eighth in line to the title of Earl of Highhurst, there isn’t a lot hope for him inheriting the household treasure. When Monty’s reunion with one in every of his long-lost kinfolk all of a sudden leads to him shifting into seventh place, he wonders to himself, “Why cease there?” Thus begins one of many funniest and most outrageous homicide sprees in musical theater historical past.
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
“A Gentleman’s Information to Love and Homicide could be the excellent Olney Theatre summer time musical,” mentioned Inventive Director Jason Loewith. “We’re able to let our hair down, we really feel just a little extra mischievous, and Gentleman’s Information provides us a good way to rejoice the liberty of the season. And the staff we’ve assembled consists of a few of our favourite collaborators, starting with Tom Story, recent off his Helen Hayes Award for guiding The Inheritance; Jacob Tischler who charmed the pants off our audiences when he performed Cosmo in Singin’; director Eleanor Holdridge, who has made so lots of our audiences snigger (Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Soprano; Fickle: A Fancy French Farce); and choreographer Ashleigh King who has blossomed from an ensemble common at Olney, into one of many area’s busiest choreographers. And with my colleague Christopher Youstra music directing, you understand this rating goes to shine.”
Becoming a member of Story and Tischler within the forged are Sumié Yotsukura (Sibella), Sadie Koopman (Phoebe), Donna Migliaccio (Miss Shingle), Benjamin Lurye (Ensemble/US Montague), Anna Maria Ferrari (Ensemble/Dance Captain/US Sibella), Simone Ballinger-Brown (Ensemble/ US Phoebe), Canter Irene O’Could (Ensemble/US The D’Ysquiths), Karen Vincent (Ensemble/US Miss Shingle), and DeCarlo J. Raspberry (Ensemble). Wynter Nicole Prepare dinner and Michael E. McGovern function swings for the manufacturing. Ben Walsh is the Manufacturing Stage Supervisor, together with Rebecca Talisman as Stage Supervisor, and Sara Gehl as Assistant Stage Supervisor.
Becoming a member of Holdridge, King, and Youstra on the inventive staff are John Coyne (Set Designer), Sarah Cubbage (Costume Designer), Minjoo Kim (Lighting Designer), Matthew Rowe (Sound Designer), Zavier Augustus Lee Taylor (Projections Designer), LaShawn Melton (Wig Designer), Bess Kaye (Battle and Intimacy Marketing consultant), Melissa Flaim (Dialect Coach), Ryan Phillips (Magic Marketing consultant), Katherine Riddle (Assistant Director), Walter “Bobby” McCoy (Assistant Music Director), Katie Brusseau (Assistant Lighting Designer), and Stephanie Parks (Assistant Costume Designer).
PRODUCTION DETAILS
A Gentleman’s Information to Love and Homicide
Ebook and Lyrics by Robert L. Freedman
Music and Lyrics by Steven Lutvak
Primarily based on a novel by Roy Horniman
Music Directed by Christopher Youstra
Choreographed by Ashleigh King
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
Dates, Location, Tickets
A Gentleman’s Information to Love and Homicide runs July 2 – August 23, 2026 within the Roberts Mainstage at Olney Theatre Middle, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Highway, Olney, MD 20832. Tickets vary from $45 – $108 and can be found at olneytheatre.org or by calling the field workplace at 301-924-3400.
Efficiency Schedule
Wednesday via Saturday evenings at 7:30 pm.
Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday matinees at 1:30 pm.
Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm on August 16
Particular Curtain time on Sunday, July 5, at 8:00 pm for Invite-Solely Opening
No matinee efficiency on Saturday, July 4
Accessible Performances
Audio-Described Efficiency – Wednesday, July 15 at 7:30 pm
ASL Interpreted Efficiency – Thursday, July 16, at 7:30 pm
ABOUT OLNEY THEATRE CENTER
Mission
Olney Theatre Middle for the Arts produces and curates theatrical efficiency for the various audiences in its neighborhood, and educates, learns from, helps, and evokes a extra inclusive era of theater-makers.
Imaginative and prescient
Olney Theatre Middle 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 neighborhood.
Historical past
Based in 1938 as a summer time playhouse, Olney Theatre Middle (OTC) 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 many years, OTC has introduced impactful theater efficiency and training to its neighborhood, serving to to develop the vibrancy and vitality of its dwelling within the Washington, DC area.
Over time, among 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, Marica Homosexual Harden, John Colicos, Uzo Aduba, Alan Cumming, Cheyenne Jackson, Robin de Jesus, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Bernadette Peters, amongst many, many others.
Olney Theatre is now the cultural anchor of a quickly altering area and serves probably the most numerous, finest 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 neighborhood with a novel Quaker heritage. Now the realm is occupied by each sort of household that makes up twenty first Century America, together with main companies, buying districts, civic associations, nonprofit organizations, and a various assortment of homes of worship. Montgomery County’s 1 million residents play a dynamic function within the Baltimore-Washington hall, and are a driving drive behind the area’s inventive financial system.
