A side view of the stage and seating at Ford’s Theatre. On the left is the Presidential Box with an American flag, a framed picture of George Washington and American flag bunting draped over the box.

Photo © Maxwell MacKenzie.

The Inheritance

May 28, 2025 — June 1, 2025

To celebrate our nation’s capital hosting of WorldPride 2025, Ford’s Theatre presents a stage reading of Matthew López’s Tony-winning, two-part milestone play, The Inheritance, inspired by E.M. Forster’s masterpiece Howards End. Hailed as “the most important American play of the century” (The Telegraph) and “a head-spinning, heart-rending experience…an emotional powerhouse” (Rolling Stone), this theatrically exhilarating epic explores the lives of three generations of gay men as they chart divergent paths to forge a future for themselves in an ever-changing America in the decades after the AIDS crisis. This dynamic and momentous examination of survival, healing, class divide and what it means to call a place home is directed by José Carrasquillo.

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By Matthew López

Inspired by E.M. Forster’s Howards End

Directed by José Carrasquillo

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