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News: Remember Matthew Sweet? The ’90s rock star’s love songs inspired a musical about…
Declaring romantic intentions is a scary prospect for most teenagers. It’s even scarier if the teenager is gay and uncertain of the other person’s…
News: Friends and playwrights tell stories that call for action on stage – The Washing…
… [Mary Kathryn] Nagle, 34, and [Annalisa] Dias, 31, have only recently met, but they already seem like enthusiastic friends charged up by over…
News: Signature Theatre acquires Everything Sondheim website – The Washington Post
Signature Theatre of Arlington, Va., has long specialized in Stephen Sondheim musicals, and now the company is branching out by rescuing the website E…
News: Behind the Scenes: What It Takes to Mount a Musical – NEA Arts Magazine
“Hey kids, let’s put on a show!” When Mickey Rooney rallied his gang to show biz in the 1939 film Babes in Arms, he and his friends embarked upo…
News: The 10 best Washington theater productions in 2017 – The Washington Post
The best in Washington theater starts with a hands-down top six: “A Little Night Music” The most satisfying musical of the year. Stephen Sondheim…
News: Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer wins Arlington County's James B. Hunter Human R…
Freddie’s Beach Bar and Signature Theatre’s artistic director Eric Schaeffer have been selected as recipients of the 2017 James B. Hunter Human Ri…
News: In Signature’s ‘Crazy for You,’ Natascia Diaz breaks the blond, blue-eyed mold –…
“After crying about Jesus for three months, this is a welcome change of pace,” Natascia Diaz says. When Diaz last appeared onstage at Signature Th…
News: Annie Baker and Taylor Mac Among 2017 MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Recipients – Play…
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker, whose latest work The Antipodes premiered Off-Broadway earlier this year, has been named a 2017 MacArth…
News: A longtime D.C. actress tackles her first musical, and it’s by Sondheim – The Wa…
On a humid summer morning, Holly Twyford, an actress whose adventurousness is well known to Washington theatergoers, is tackling what is perhaps the m…
News: Jon Kalbfleisch tunes up ‘A Little Night Music’ – The Washington Post
Jon Kalbfleisch was a 19-year-old pianist in Lawton, Okla., when the local community theater asked him to be music director for their production of …