The Walworth Farce

Enda Walsh, the featured playwright of The New Ireland Festival at Studio Theatre, defies easy classification. But one thing is sure: whether he grabs part of the myth of Odysseus and resets it at the bottom of a drained swimming pool as in Penelope or uses the bashed-in skeleton of a London Council flat to set a doomed farce as in The Walworth Farce, you can believe he will take you on a dizzying descent through the deepest recesses of the brain to the stem brain where he exposes our most base emotions of terror and rage. [Read more...]

Supremes reject Wildely imaginative arguments, throw booklet at Ideal villain

Oyez, oyez, oyez, all you girlz and boyez! Last night, the Honorable the Supreme Court of the United States (supplemented by Judges from the Honorable the Less Supreme Courts) let the extortion conviction of celebrated blackmailer Laura Cheveley stand in the face of a slew of imaginative arguments presented by her gifted counsel, Beth Wilkinson. [Read more...]

2011 Curtain Call – the Helen Hayes Award nominated creative collaborators

Beginning today, DC Theatre Scene will roll out our annual Curtain Call feature to tell you about some of last year’s most exceptional theatre from the best source possible: the artists who created it.

As the 2011 Helen Hayes Awards ceremony approaches, our five part 2011 Curtain Call presents nearly 100 of the playwrights, designers, directors, actors and producers who turned bare stages into portals to other worlds where anything was possible. They will show us the secret heart of theater, in which craft fuses with imagination to create stories that startle us with laughter and move our own hearts with insight and catharsis. [Read more...]

Eric Schaeffer’s Signature Story released

Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer and Sarah Valente will be signing copies of their new book “My Signature Story” Thursday, April 14th, from 7 – 9pm  in the Signature’s Mead Lobby overlooking the glittering shops of Shirlington Village, in which Signature Theatre is an important anchor.

“My Signature Story” tells the story of the origins of Arlington, VA-based Signature Theatre and the history of its first twenty years, which included being recognized with the 2009 Regional Theatre Tony Award.

Schaeffer, whose work has been seen not only at Signature Theatre, but The Kennedy Center (including the memorable Mame) and is now on Broadway (Million Dollar Quartet), shares anecdotes about the past twenty years at Signature, his thoughts on theater, his dreams for Signature’s future, and advice to those who want to create a life in theater.

The book is on sale at the Signature Shop and is available in both hardback ($23) and paperback ($16).  Ali’s Bar will be open and light snacks will be available.

Call the Signature Box Office at 703 820-9771 for further details.