Washington, D.C. premiere October 17 - 26, 2025
Theatre on the Run, Arlington, Virginia

Streaming as video-on-demand January 22-February 5, 2026

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The riveting real story behind the 19th Amendment, in ‘It’s My Party!’

Pipeline Playwrights runs down the rivalries in the run-up to women’s suffrage.

October 20, 2025
DC Theatre Arts
by Victoria Sosa

The suffragist movement, like many fights for civil liberties, is often presented as a straightforward victory. A relay race to the top of The Hill, where Man was waiting with open arms to claim Woman as equal. Famous female activists like Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and Ida B. Wells are placed into a fairytale where all womankind unite to pass the 19th Amendment and then live happily ever after. What’s the real story? Pipeline Playwrights’ It’s My Party! takes a stab at the truth. Written by Ann Timmons and directed by Rikki Howie Lacewell, the play examines the rivalry . . .

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Review: “It’s My Party!” at Theatre On The Run
The fight for women's suffrage

Oct. 28, 2025
Broadway World
By Laurie Sara Oliver

We Americans should not be too proud to admit we owe the Brits for a few important things - Harry Potter, Earl Gray tea, a lot of great music, and, to a certain extent, the 19th Amendment. In London . ..two young Americans, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, trained with another British feminist, Emmeline Pankhurst. Pankhurst and her daughters were famous for their radical approach to suffrage . . This more radical and aggressive approach clashed with the existing, long-standing suffrage efforts of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)…Paul and Burns, who formed the National Woman’s Party (NWP), were more ambitious. They wanted federal change and they wanted it immediately. 

NAWSA and the NWP at times worked together but spent most of the years leading up to the 19th Amendment’s passing in active and public opposition to one another. It’s My Party!, written by Ann Timmons of Pipeline Playwrights and presented by Arlington’s Theatre on the Run, explores this conflict through a series of historical vignettes from 1912 to the final vote in 1919. . .

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Review: ‘It’s My Party!’ invites all to reflect on suffrage struggle

October 22, 2025
Alexandria Times
by Thompson Eskew

This story may take place a century in the past, but it’s crucial to understanding our present. A story perpetually relevant and true to the American experience, the 1910s backdrop of the phenomenal play “It’s My Party!” offers a narrative truly worth contemplating.

Written by local playwright Ann Timmons in celebration of the 19th Amendment’s centennial in 2020, this this narrative follows two opposing suffragist movements that collectively sought women’s voting rights through radically different means. Brought to the area by Arlington’s Theatre on the Run and the Pipeline Playwright’s network, Director Rikki Howie Lacewell transforms the black box stage into an arena for civil liberties. . .

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What audiences say

'‘It’s My Party! is a moving and exciting new play that brilliantly dramatizes the struggle for women's suffrage. This play is a must-see for every girl and woman today.’
Patricia Connelly, Founder, Thelma Theatre

“Timmons’ creatively infuses both personality and passion into the history of the suffrage movement that is equally stirring whether you are well versed in the history or being newly introduced.”
Page Harrington, Consulting Historian, former Executive Director, National Woman’s Party at Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument

“This Hamilton-esque hybrid highlights the split between the two major suffrage factions, and makes the connection for the fight for women's rights — then and now — starkly relatable.”
Paige Muller, Public Programming Associate, Mosaic Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.)

What critics say

REVIEW: RSVP fast to Echo Theatre’s ‘Party’

DallasVoice
September 28, 2021
by Rich Lopez

Being in the middle of some frightening new laws here in Texas that wage war on women and increase voting barriers, Echo Theatre reminds that those fights have been long fought. In the regional premiere of Ann Timmons’ It’s My Party! that tells the story of women’s fight to vote, history reminds that justice wins, but not without turbulence. If anyone’s feeling beaten by today’s recent legislation, Echo Theatre’s newest production can inspire and ignite. 

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