Really Really
February 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
If plays are judged by the sheer force of their emotional impact, Really Really – the world premiere of playwright Paul Colaizzo’s contemporary, college-set drama, now playing at Signature Theatre – is an unvarnished success. This is a play of such raw intensity that you’ll be afraid to blink for fear of missing something. [Read more...]
Marcia Gardner, Signature superwoman (1945 – 2012)
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Marcia Murdock Gardner, an actor, educator, dramaturg, casting director and literary manager most frequently associated with Signature Theatre, died January 20 at her Alexandria home after a battle with cancer. She was 66. [Read more...]
Hairspray
December 14, 2011 By 5 Comments
It takes a tough man to be a tender drag queen. And local television and radio personality Robert Aubry Davis does Edna Turnblad’s cha-cha heels and bazooka-sized bra proud in Signature Theatre’s radiant, ecstatic production of Hairspray, the 2006 musical about Baltimore in the segregated early 1960s that mixes racial integration with teen dance party syncopation. [Read more...]
A Second Chance
December 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
At its core, romance is the same at any age: an exciting, gut-wrenching roller coaster of blessed highs and crushing lows. The only thing that changes as the years go by is the volume of emotional baggage standing in the way of new love and contentment. In A Second Chance, Ted Shen’s elegant ode to late-blooming love, two New York City residents grapple with personal demons and painful pasts as they try to open their hearts one more time. [Read more...]
Cyber weekend for theatre lovers
November 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Theatre lovers haven’t been left out of the cyber super sales weekend. [Read more...]
Patti LuPone to receive Signature Theatre’s Stephen Sondheim Award
October 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Patti LuPone, who won a Tony, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama League Award for her work as Rose in the Styne/Sondheim/Laurents musical Gypsy, is the recipient of Signature Theatre’s third annual Stephen Sondheim Award, the company announced this afternoon. [Read more...]
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South
September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A boy finds himself in a strange new garden on that day when, suddenly, his sexuality starts to blossom. The assumptions he’s made about who he is — and the assumptions that others have made about him — can crack and crumble. Like a lot of growing up, it can hurt. So the man he flowers into — and the sort of earthly delights he indulges in — depends not just on what he wants to be, but on what he allows himself to be in the eyes of others. [Read more...]
The Hollow
September 13, 2011 By 8 Comments
Who is that boogeyman scaring the gullible and accommodating? Is it the headless Hessian wreaking terror on the residents of Sleepy Hollow, immortalized in Washington Irving’s classic 1820 tale, or playwright Hunter Foster through his world premiere musical The Hollow, at Arlington’s Signature Theatre? [Read more...]
The Boy Detective Fails
September 13, 2011 By 2 Comments
Who would’ve bet that a musical, by turns wacky and heartfelt, guided by a suicidal narrator struggling with his sanity—himself a metafictional send-up of anachronistic boys’ detective fiction—populated by cartoon characters and plotted as an unsolved murder mystery while actually a poignant survivors’ tale of healing, would work?
Signature Theatre took the bet and it pays off swimmingly. [Read more...]
My Signature Story
May 31, 2011 By 2 Comments
DC Theatre Scene readers who have enjoyed shows at Signature Theatre in Shirlington will wish this slender volume was thicker. At 123 pages of large type, it only skims the surface of the story of Signature Theatre — but what is here is fascinating. [Read more...]
