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Folger Theatre Announces 2015–16 Season

A celebratory season of Shakespearean fare, limited engagements and special events.

Another big winner was Lyric Stage Company’s ‘Into the Woods,’ plus a special prize for Gold Dust Orphans founder Ryan Landry.

The slate includes Chicago premieres by Nicky Silver and Deborah Brevoort.

Three plays will undergo a complete development cycle, from staged readings to full productions.

Two new plays and a classic to be staged at the Connecticut Valley theatre company’s new home.

Also on the slate are the more obscure ‘Cabin in the Sky’ and ‘Do I Hear a Waltz?’

Free classics bookend a season of new plays and musicals by authors including Robert O’Hara, Sarah Burgess and Tarell Alvin McCraney.

The slate includes world premieres by David Jacobi and Hansol Jung, as well as a script development program.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s founding-fathers musical took 10 awards, including best musical, at the Off-Broadway awards on Sunday night.

Honors from journalists based outside New York City go mostly but not exclusively to shows on Broadway.