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News: Arlington’s Signature Theatre will put its best musical foot forward online in 2…
In a sign of how radically theater companies have had to reinvent themselves to survive in a time of stifled live performance, Arlington’s Signature…
News: Signature Theatre Announces Hiring of Valerie Bunns
NEW DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION HAS MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE Arlington, VA – Signature The…
News: Statement from Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre strives to play a positive role in our society and part of doing this is listening to our community in an open and fair manner. Livi…
News: Signature Theatre Announces the Retirement of Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer
On June 30, 2020, thirty years after he co-founded Signature Theatre, Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer will retire from his position and depart the co…
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News: People said her great-great-aunts posed as white and robbed banks. So she wrote …
If you think there are some stories that simply can’t be set to music, well, try this one on for size: a pair of upstanding black sisters in 1890s Texas pass for white — and become bank robbers.
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News: Without Michael Bennett's Choreography, Is It Still "A Chorus Line"? – The Washi…
Michael Bennett may have made the dance steps for “A Chorus Line” indelible nearly a half-century ago, but Signature Theatre had no intention of r…
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News: Signature Theatre’s ‘Assassins’ takes a shot at humanizing history’s villains – …
Finding empathy for one’s character is a fundamental step in the acting process. But for the cast of the musical “Assassins,” that step is more …
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News: Take an inside look at how Signature Theatre’s ‘Blackbeard’ got its ship togethe…
Two years ago, Eric Schaeffer embarked on his journey to direct Signature Theatre’s world-premiere musical “Blackbeard” with a modest vision. Bu…
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News: Express: What will we value when the world comes crashing down?
In the play “Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity,” now in production at Signature Theatre, three women — a nurse, a sol…
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News: I’ve been covering D.C. theater for roughly 20 years. Here’s why Signature is my…
They had me at “Sondheim,” but there are plenty more reasons the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre — the Arlington troupe known for musicals …