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May 21, 2013 - June 30, 2013
Dates On sale: April 19 Student: May 31 Pride: June 7 Discussion: June 12 & 18 Sondheim. Signature’s Signature. Fresh from directing the critically-acclaimed production of Sondheim’s Follies on Broadway, Eric Schaeffer brings a new production of the musical comedy Company to Signature–produced here for the first time in 20 years. On his 35th birthday, [...]
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May 29, 2013 - June 1, 2013
Dates On sale: May 1 at 10AM The perfect combination to Signature’s production of Company, hear songs from the 1970s Broadway musicals that didn’t fare quite so well. Revisit some incredible gems that we’ve dug out of the trunk while savoring the disco groove. Join Austin Colby, Chelsea Packard (Broadway’s Wicked) and Nova Y. Payton [...]
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June 3, 2013
Page to Stage Monday: Maggie Boland and Hunter Styles
June 3, 2013 Signature’s Managing Director Maggie Boland and Hunter Styles, Signature’s Public and Community Relations Manager reflect on the 2012/13 season and discuss what’s ahead at Signature in the 2013/14 season. Signature Theatre is “dark” on Mondays, but the lights are on at the Shirlington Library, just downstairs from the theatre. Conversations with guest artists and Signature staff [...]
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June 6, 2013
Brown Bag Thursday: Thomas Adrian Simpson and Sherri L. Edelen
June 6, 2013 Real-life married couple Thomas Adrian Simpson and Sherri L. Edelen star in Signature’s full-of-married-couples production of Company. Thomas has appeared on the Signature stage in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and The Boy Detective Fails. Sherri has starred in several Signature shows including Sweeney Todd and Walter Cronkite is Dead. On the first Thursday of the month gather in Signature’s Mead Lobby for a [...]
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July 9, 2013 - July 27, 2013
Book by Brian Hill Music & Lyrics by Neil Bartram Based on the film Speedy Scandal Dates On sale: June 7 at 10AM A New Musical Faded pop star Evan coasts through life hosting an obscure television show and enjoying meaningless flings. However, when a surprise daughter and grandson arrive on his doorstep, Evan must choose between the gift [...]
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August 15, 2013 - September 22, 2013
International Sensation Created by the acclaimed writers of Les Misérables, this modern, rock-infused adaptation of Puccini’s 1904 opera Madame Butterfly explores the ongoing impact of love, loss and the collision of cultures during the Vietnam War. Vietnamese Kim and American G.I. Chris fall in love during the tumultuous fall of Saigon. Three years after their [...]
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October 15, 2013 - December 8, 2013
Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill
The World Premiere After the resounding success of 2012’s Really Really, Signature presents the newest work from Paul Downs Colaizzo. The Falls of Autrey Mill is the most desired zipcode in town. From the outside, the flawless neighborhood glitters with elegant roman column porches and exquisitely manicured lawns. However, demons lurk behind the designer window [...]
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October 29, 2013 - November 24, 2013
The World Premiere From the writers of Nevermore comes a poignant original musical. Crossing explores the interwoven stories of eight people from different decades of the past century who come together at a train station. Some are waiting for the train, others are waiting for visitors, a few are just…waiting. All of them are searching [...]
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December 11, 2013 - December 15, 2013
Composer and Signature favorite Matt Conner (Snow, Winter, Icicle) salutes the holidays with his unique piano style. Join Matt and his friends for an evening of joyous merrymaking.
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December 17, 2013 - December 23, 2013
Signature’s annual holiday celebration returns! Tune that piano to the tune of glee for this jolly festivity featuring special guest performers, buckets of cheer and all your cherished yuletide tunes.
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December 17, 2013 - January 19, 2014
The Great American Musical Here she is, World. Here’s Rose! Sherri L. Edelen (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Company, Hairspray) stars as the iconic Momma Rose in the award-winning backstage musical favorite. Set during the 1920s fading vaudeville circuit, Gypsy portrays the rise of famed burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee. Momma Rose, the archetypal [...]
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February 18, 2014 - March 23, 2014
World Premiere Musical Based on the beloved book, Beaches follows two extraordinary friends through 30 years of camaraderie, laughter and sorrow. Vivacious, outlandish Cee Cee and beautiful, privileged Bertie meet as children and become fast friends. From pen-pals to roommates to romantic rivals, Cee Cee and Bertie’s oil-and-water friendship perseveres through even the most tragic [...]
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March 18, 2014 - May 11, 2014
The Washington, DC Premiere Tender Napalm makes its Washington debut in a transfixing, intimate and savage exploration of love in the face of heartbreak. A pair of young lovers creates a fantastical, often violent, world through an interweaving dialogue of increasing perplexity. At the heart of their fantasies lies an unimaginable tragedy that both bonds [...]
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April 22, 2014 - June 1, 2014
Groundbreaking Musical Brecht. Signature style. Mack the Knife is back in town! The MAX Theatre transforms into London’s gritty underworld in this 1928 parody of A Beggar’s Opera. The haves clash with the have-nots while MacHeath, the ultimate sneering antihero, perches in the middle of the storm. A brilliant masterpiece of epic theater, Brecht’s sharp [...]
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June 12, 2014 - July 6, 2014
A World Premiere Musical Comedy From Helen Hayes Award Winner Ed Dixon (Signature’s Sunset Boulevard) comes a delightfully screwball musical comedy send-up of the 1950s film noir. Third-rate detective Nick Cutter is down on his luck when a beautiful blonde bombshell tosses a very intriguing case (and herself) into his lap. For the next 90 [...]