Announcing Signature’s 2018/19 Season

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August 14 – September 23, 2018

Sondheim’s sensual Tony Award®-winning musical starring Natascia Diaz (West Side Story). In 1860s Italy, a fiery love triangle ignites in an exhilarating tangle of obsession and desire.

September 18 – November 11, 2018

A chance encounter at a London train stop changes the course of life for two people in a hit Broadway play by Tony Award®-winning playwright Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time).

October 30, 2018 – January 6, 2019

The dynamic Tony Award®-winning musical about a boy who gives up boxing for ballet, surprising his small working-class town that is stuck in the grip of the 1984 British mining strike.

January 23 – March 10, 2019

Step into Harlem for a swinging, dancing celebration of big band jazz, starring Signature favorites Nova Y. Payton (Jelly’s Last Jam), Kevin McAllister (Titanic), Iyona Blake (Titanic) and Mark G. Meadows (Jelly’s Last Jam).

February 26 – April 7, 2019

Holly Twyford (A Little Night Music) and Felicia Curry (The Scottsboro Boys) star in this brutal and elegant exploration of the unifying virtue of art and what things are most worth saving when the world is collapsing. Written by DC playwright Heather McDonald.

April 2 – May 12, 2019

Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer conjures a scintillating musical destination where captivating characters played by Bobby Smith (A Little Night Music), Nicki Elledge (A Little Night Music), and more embody the joy, style, and decadence of the 1920s.

April 30 – June 23, 2019

Based on three short stories by Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and adapted by Jelly’s Last Jam writer George C. Wolfe, Spunk sets the human ability to endure to the strums of a blues guitar in a stirring musical fable.

June 11 – July 7, 2019

Set sail with the most infamous pirate of all time in a riotous, rowdy high-seas adventure from the creators of The Witches of Eastwick, Brother Russia, and The Fix in this immersively staged musical salute.

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Be sure to check out the 5-show Cabaret Series: Blues Revolution featuring Akua Allrich, Motown: The Reprise, Judy Garland: A Star is Born, Unforgettable featuring Mark G. Meadows and Blowin’ in the Wind: Folk-Rock in America. And don’t forget to reserve your space for Into Legend We Sail: Captaining a New Musical, our five-part Signature Seminar that will take you behind the scenes into the immersive magic Blackbeard for just $260.

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July 19, 2018

Signature opens our air-conditioned doors once more for our annual summer cabaret series. With a different concert each night, there’s always something to keep you entertained.

August 21 – 25, 2018

Jazz vocalist and DC native Akua Allrich explores music and poetry as tools for revolution in a sizz…

December 4 – 22, 2018

The sold-out Motown: Hitsville U.S.A. cabaret returns with an entirely new flavor of the Motown sound.

January 8 – January 26, 2019

A cast of Signature favorites sing some of Judy Garland’s most famous songs in a tribute to one of Hollywood’s brightest stars.

April 2 – April 6, 2019

Jazz pianist Mark G. Meadows (Motown: Hitsville U.S.A., The Piano Men) lets loose with the smooth stylings of Nat King Cole.