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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…

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.

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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 …

News: Signature Theatre takes on Sondheim’s ‘Passion’ – The Washington Post
How do you convince an audience that the female lead is unattractive to all the male characters at the beginning of the show yet irresistible to the l…

News: Entirely Elvis in The Washington Post
Hear the word “cabaret” and you might think of Sally Bowles in a bowler and garters belting out Kander & Ebb songs in Weimar Republic Germany.…

News: The Scottsboro Boys on NBC4
NBC Washington’s Aaron Gilchrist profiled The Scottsboro Boys in the video above, which originally aired on News 4 at 6 on Friday, June 1. Wat…