Tony-winning Suffs brings the fight for voting rights to Washington

A Tony-winning musical about women winning the vote has landed just steps from the Capitol, and in Washington it reads less like period drama than a warning about who still gets heard. At The National Theatre on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suffs arrived with Hillary Clinton among its producers, turning a Broadway success into a sharper argument about voting rights, public memory and political power.

The show runs at 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW from June 16 through June 28, and the Washington engagement includes Girl Scouts Night on June 18, an American Sign Language performance on June 20, Audio Description on June 21, and Sorority Saturday on June 27. After Washington, the tour moves on to Chicago from July 7 to July 19, Pittsburgh from July 21 to July 26, Memphis from July 31 to August 2, and Fort Worth from August 4 to August 9.

Written by Shaina Taub, Suffs dramatizes the suffrage movement and the final stretch of the fight for the women’s vote. Taub said, “We keep having to fight these fights over and over,” a line that lands with extra force in a city where battles over representation, democracy and civic memory are still active political terrain. The musical’s Broadway run ended on January 5, 2025, before the national tour began.

That timing helps explain why the production carries outsized weight. Suffs won two Tony Awards in 2024, for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score, and Taub became the first woman ever to independently win Tony Awards for both categories in the same season. In Washington, those honors make the show more than a crowd-pleaser: they frame it as public history in motion, a reminder that the right to vote was won through organizing, protest and persistence, and that the struggle over who counts in American politics is still being staged in real time.