After an 18-month renovation, Ford’s Theatre has reopened with a world premiere of a play, “The Heavens Are Hung in Black,” by James Still. Commissioned for the opening of the theater, the play tells the story of Abraham Lincoln during five months in 1862, between the death of his young son and the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.

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