Constellation Theatre Company announces its 18th season with a twist on contemporary multiverse play and gender-bending musical dynamic pairing for their winter and spring productions. A recipient of the prestigious National Theatre Company Award from the American Theatre Wing in 2013, Constellation’s Season 18 features three dynamic theatrical productions, selected as part of their Season 18 theme “Infinite Possibilities.”
The winter production will be Constellations, written by Nick Payne, screenwriter of this year’s A24 film WE LIVE IN TIME, which features Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh. Constellations explores themes of love and communication through parallel worlds. The intimate, two-actor script investigates how fate and chance play into romance, revealing multiple outcomes for every meeting the couple experiences. In a swirling multiverse, the soulmates connect over ballroom dancing, beekeeping, quantum physics, destiny, and hope, presenting a narrative that traverses alternative realities. The spring of 2025 features the joyous drag and jaunty jukebox musical Head Over Heels, which uses the music of ’80s band The Go-Go’s to tell the story of 16th century fictional work ARCADIA. Head Over Heels is a celebration of self-discovery and queer identity told through ’80s rock, weaving gender-bending, Renaissance, Greek, and fantasy elements in a highly modernized, laugh-out-loud love story.
Founding Artistic Director Allison Stockman notes, “Our shows this season celebrate love and matters of the heart in very different genres – from an intricate and tender two-person play to a boisterous and sparkling Broadway-style musical. As our characters navigate their dramatically-changing lives, they discover infinite possibilities through intimate, layered, tender, and even riotous circumstances that we get to experience along with them in the vulnerable and empowering space of the theater.”
“This is an important year for all of us,” shares Managing Director Anderson Wells. “It’s a year that contains infinite possibilities – even when some of those possibilities are bleak and tragic. However, many of us are starting to view those possibilities with a sense of hope – a hope that we can find safety for ourselves and those we care for – a hope that systemic norms might change for the better – and a hope that can breed mutual respect, joy, and love, like the collision of Head Over Heels and DC’s World Pride. I hope our audiences will find those elements in our work this season and take that hope with them back out into the world, brightening their own view of infinite possibility.”
THE 2024/25 SEASON
Constellations
Written by Nick Payne
Directed by Nikki Mirza
February 6 – March 9, 2025
Head Over Heels
Songs by The Go-Go’s
Based on ‘The Arcadia’ by Sir Philip Sidney
Conceived and Original Book by Jeff Whitty
Adapted by James Magruder
May 1 – June 1, 2025
Season subscriptions are now available at ConstellationTheatre.org. Individual tickets will be available at a later date.
ABOUT CONSTELLATION THEATRE COMPANY
Constellation Theatre Company tells big, powerful stories in an intimate space. They spark curiosity and imagination with plays and musicals from all over the world that feature visual spectacle, original music, dynamic movement, and passionate acting ensembles. They draw from the genres of fantasy, farce, and epic adventure to transport audiences to dramatic worlds where the action is larger than life.
Since 2007, Constellation has brought to life numerous diverse and vibrant stories. Constellation received the John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Company from the Helen Hayes Awards in 2009 and the prestigious National Theatre Company Award from the American Theatre Wing in 2013. According to Metro Weekly magazine, Constellation “does some of the best, most adventurous, most reliable work in town, all presented on an epic scale with a level of intimacy that can’t be beat.”
