Barnum. Booth. Lincoln. – Abraham Lincoln, Junius Brutus Booth

21:30, Wed 13th – Sat 16th May 2026 at Corpus Playroom

🎪🎭 Barnum. Booth. Lincoln. 🎭🎪

“Can you tell me how a celebrated Shakespearean actor becomes the assassin of a president?”

Narrated by an older Edwin Booth and guided by his friend P.T. Barnum as ringmaster, the show unfolds inside a circus tent of memory, where history, performance, and spectacle collide. Woven through Edwin’s recollections of his younger brother, John Wilkes Booth, is the unlikely but true friendship between Barnum and Lincoln. The story traces the rise and fall of the Booth brothers: one destined to become the preeminent actor of his time, the other destined to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.

This new musical blends theatre, history, and spectacle.