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DC Premiere

Which Way to the Stage

Dec 6, 2022 - Jan 22, 2023
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A playful yet profound comedy about friendship, ambition, and what happens when dreams fall just out of reach.

Broadway superfans Jeff and Judy eagerly await their idol Idina Menzel after her performance in If/Then at the stage door every night. But when a sexy stranger enters the scene and upends their decades-long friendship, the musical theater aficionados have to go off book to rewrite their own finale.

Signature’s new Associate Artistic Director Ethan Heard makes his directorial debut with this funny and touching play about the roles we perform and transcending one’s “type.”

“The best new comedy since theatres reopened.”
The Wrap

Written by Ana Nogueira
Directed by Ethan Heard
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Performance Information

Seating Chart

  • Run Time

    Running time is approximately 120 minutes, no intermission.

  • Content Warnings

    This show is recommended for mature teens and adults and will use theatrical haze. Signature does not admit children under 6 years old.

  • Masking

    Face masks are required inside the performance spaces on Thursdays and Sundays.
    Face masks are optional, but strongly recommended inside the performance spaces Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Content Warnings

This show contains some adult language, derogatory terms for women and gay men and may use theatrical haze.

Program

Flip through the Which Way to the Stage Program

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Specialty Nights

Discussion Nights

January 4 & 10, 2023

Pride Night

January 20, 2023

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Cast Members

Mike Millan

Mike Millan

Jeff

SIGNATURE: Which Way to the Stage. BROADWAY: Escape to Margaritaville. NATIONAL TOUR: Sister Act. OFF-BROADWAY: Asylum Theater: Titanique; Shakespeare in The Park/The Public Theater: As You Like It; Signature Theatre NYC: Piece of My Heart. REGIONAL: The MUNY: 42nd Street, Pirates!; Goodspeed: Band Geeks, Nobody Loves You.  LA THEATER: IAMA Theater Company: Found (Ovation Nomination- Best Lead Actor in a Musical); Celebration Theater: Buyer & Cellar; UCB LA: Mamma Mia…But Different. TV/FILM: Erik on NBC’s Sunnyside, Let’s Be Tigers (Disney+), The Neighborhood, High Maintenance, Carpool Karaoke, Small Town Big Talent. OTHER: 2019 CBS Diversity Sketch Showcase (LA). Instagram: @mikemillan. TikTok: @itsmikemillan.

Stephen Russell Murray

Stephen Russell Murray

Understudy

he/him SIGNATURE: Which Way to the Stage, Spin, Sunday in the Park with George, Shakespeare's R&J; DC AREA: Folger Theatre: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Pericles, The Way of the World; Olney Theatre: Kinky Boots, The Music Man; Arena Stage: For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls; Keegan Theatre: Chicago, Spring Awakening, What We're Up Against, American Idiot; 1st Stage: Never the Sinner, The Chosen; 4615 Theatre: Separate Rooms, A Delicate Ship; Pointless Theatre: Rhinoceros; Spooky Action Theater: Maple & Vine; Imagination Stage: A Year With Frog & Toad. EDUCATION: MFA Classical Acting,The Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy. www.stephenrussellmurray.com

Leah Platt

Understudy

she/her NATIONAL TOUR: Fiddler on the Roof (First National). NEW YORK: Hi, My Name is Ben; Moms: The Musical; NYMF: Breaking Ground. REGIONAL: White Plains PAC: The Prom (Regional Premiere); The Palace Theater: The Marvelous Wonderettes; The Summit Playhouse: [Title of Show]. OTHER: Disney Cruise Line: Frozen, Aladdin, Disney’s Believe. EDUCATION: Northwestern University. LeahPlatt.com @leahsplatt

Nina-Sophia Pacheco

Nina-Sophia Pacheco

Actress / Bachelorette / Casting Director

she/her DC AREA: Constellation Theatre: Once On This Island; Providence Players: Playing Juliet/Casting Othello; St. Mark’s Players: Evita, Gypsy; Gaylord National Harbor: ICE 2017, ICE 2018. OTHER: Air National Guard Band of the South, Lead Vocalist. EDUCATION: The American and Musical Dramatic Academy NY: Professional Accreditation in Musical Theatre Performance. www.ninasophiapacheco.com @sloanrex

Dani Stoller

Dani Stoller

Judy

SIGNATURE: Ragtime (Helen Hayes nomination Best Supporting Performer), Which Way to the Stage, Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes (playwright) SIS playwright. DC AREA: Theater J: This Much I Know, Hester Street Arena Stage: My Body, No Choice (Helen Hayes Nomination best-supporting performer); Olney Theatre Center: The Joy That Carries You (Charles MacArthur Award best new play) The Humans, Thanksgiving Play, The Crucible, The Diary of Anne Frank, Annie; Folger Theatre: Midsummer, District Merchants, As You Like It; Keegan Theatre: Airness, Hair, Dogfight; 1st Stage: Bat Boy (Helen Hayes Nomination), Blithe Spirit, The Good Counselor, The Italian – American Reconciliation; Round House Theatre: Girlhood (Playwright). EDUCATION: BFA Ithaca College MFA Romeo School at CUA. Upcoming: Prayer for the French Republic at Theater J.

Michael Tacconi

Mark

he/him BROADWAY: West Side Story (Tony Standby), The Cher Show. OFF-BROADWAY: New World Stages: Bare. REGIONAL: James M. Nederlander Theatre: The Devil Wears Prada (Nate), The Cher Show; Kansas City Rep/Barrington Stage: A Little More Alive; The Rev Theatre Co./Ogunquit Playhouse: From Here To Eternity; Speakeasy Stage Co.: Next To Normal. TV/FILM: The CW: The Winchesters; BET: Sacrifice; Apple: Black Bird; Here TV: Indoor Boys; ABC: The Family; Lifetime: I Love You…But I Lied; Heart of Champions. AWARDS: Austin Under the Stars Film Festival: Best Film and Best Cinematography awards (Redo, Producer and Actor). EDUCATION: The Boston Conservatory. @tacconz

Creative Team

Ethan Heard

Directed by

he/him SIGNATURE: Associate Artistic Director. Director: Soft Power, The Bridges of Madison County, Pacific Overtures, Which Way to the Stage. NEW YORK: Co-Founder of Heartbeat Opera: Fidelio (NYTimes Critic’s Pick), Butterfly, Breathing Free (Drama League Nominee), Lady M, Dido & Aeneas, Kafka-Fragments, seven drag extravaganzas; Inner Voices: The Other Room; Experiments in Opera: Sisyphus; Judson: Desire|Divinity; Dixon Place: The Gay Ivy; Opera America: Truth & Reconciliation. REGIONAL: Opera Philadelphia: Madame Butterfly; Berkshire Theatre Festival: A Little Night Music, Bells Are Ringing, Little Shop of Horrors; Williamstown: Pullman, WA; Curtis: Empty the House; Princeton: Into the Woods, Next to Normal, The Producers, Poppea; Carnegie Mellon: A Little Night Music; Yale: Sunday in the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along, Julius Caesar, L’Orfeo, Yale School of Drag. DC AREA: The Kennedy Center: La Susanna. INTERNATIONAL: Broadway Asia: The Secret (Resident Director). EDUCATION: Yale: BA and MFA. TEACHING: Yale, Princeton, O’Neill Theater Center. ethanheard.com. @ethanjheard

Frank Labovitz

Costume Design by

SIGNATURE: Soon, Elmer Gantry, Sunday in the Park with George, The Threepenny Opera, Beaches, Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill, Gypsy, Miss Saigon, Company, Dreamgirls (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Costume Design), Dying City. DC AREA: Round House Theatre: Ordinary Days, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Pride and Prejudice; Woolly Mammoth Theatre: The Totalitarians, You For Me For You, Mr. Burns: a post electric play, Gruesome Playground Injuries; Studio Theatre: Laugh, The Torch Song Trilogy, Dirt; Theater J: The Religion Thing; Imagination Stage: Lyle the Crocodile, Suessical, Rapunzel; Pointless Theatre Company: Doctor Caligari, A Very Pointless Holiday Spectacular, Sleeping Beauty: a Puppet Ballet; MetroStage: Bessie’s Blues; Forum Theatre: How We Got On, Pluto, The T Party. AWARDS: Two Helen Hayes nominations (The Threepenny Opera, The Totalitarians).

Signature Theatre

4200 Campbell Ave Arlington, Virginia

Which Way to the Stage Specialty Drink

Stop by Ali’s Bar in the Mead Lobby on the 2nd floor to try our new specialty cocktail and warm up from the cold! One Bourbon Based Drink: Jim Beam Bourbon Cream meets coffee and nutmeg with a little extra dash of bitters to make a nice warm drink perfect for waiting at the stage door.

Press Reviews

Nothing short of magical

BroadwayWorld

Delightfully wry theater-world comedy

The Washington Post

Catnip for musical theater nerds

DCist

A must see… a highly entertaining evening

MD Theatre Guide

Stiletto-sharp comic timing

The Washington Post

Stopped my heart with smiles or gasps more than a few times

DC Theater Arts