Signature Theatre

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival, which began in September and runs into November, will present more than 50 new plays and musicals by women in theaters across the city. I spent a weekend sampling the offerings and came away impressed and energized by the quality and diversity on display…

The musical “Cake Off,” at Signature Theater, is inspired by a real incident, when in 1996 the Pillsbury Bake-Off raised its prize money from $50,000 to a cool million, and for the first time awarded the prize to – ack! — a man…there is a lovely ballad of self-doubt for Paul, and a rousing trio for the three central characters.

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