The World to Come
Dates : February 3, 2026 — March 1, 2026
The residents of the SeaBreeze Hebrew Home for the Aging carry on as usual: knitting, playing Scrabble, fighting, and falling in love. As the apocalyptic outside world threatens their way of life, Fanny, Barbara, Ruth, and Hal fight to protect the community they’ve built together. THE WORLD TO COME is a surprising new epic that reveals how powerful friendship can be as a form of resistance.
WORLD PREMIERE
Theater J and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company present
February 3 – March 1, 2026
The World to Come
By Ali Viterbi
Directed by Howard Shalwitz
The residents of the SeaBreeze Hebrew Home for the Aging carry on as usual: knitting, playing Scrabble, fighting, and falling in love. As the apocalyptic outside world threatens their way of life, Fanny, Barbara, Ruth, and Hal fight to protect the community they’ve built together. Even while battling armored nurses, a wild ostrich, strange prophecies, and their ailing bodies, they find joy in each other’s company. THE WORLD TO COME is a surprising new epic that reveals how powerful friendship can be as a form of resistance.
In this world premiere from Theater J and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company by playwright Ali Viterbi – winner of the 2019 National Jewish Playwriting Contest – some of DC’s greatest performers will grace the stage with warmth, heartbreak and the sheer will to protect each other, even as the outside world crumbles.
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