Metro Weekly

All posts tagged "signature theatre"

  • Eastern Edge: 'Brother Russia'

    While 1776 celebrates the Declaration of Independence at Ford's Theatre, revolution is brewing at Signature Theatre, too, in the world premiere of the musical Brother...

  • Nominees for 2012 Helen Hayes Awards Announced

    The Helen Hayes Awards nominees for 2012, DC’s theater awards, were announced on Monday, Feb. 27, and include nominees ranging from fifteen nominations, including Outstanding...

  • Taking the Stage

    Will today's musicals have lasting cultural relevance? In most cases no, argues Robert Aubrey Davis. ''One hundred years from now,'' says the local arts critic...

  • Big Hair

    After six years on Broadway, national tours and a splashy big-screen adaptation, how much charm could be left in the Charm City of the musical...

  • A Second Chance at Signature

    Shirlington’s Signature Theatre offers yet another world premiere musical this season — A Second Chance, with book, music and lyrics by Ted Shen (director of...

  • A Musical Mystery

    Adam Gwon got the idea for his new musical The Boy Detective Fails from the most mysterious of places: Amazon.com. The online superstore's complicated algorithms...

  • Tea Time

    Intimate one-man shows are like that friend who's just been on a cooking course. You know, the one who's frantic to make you dinner? On...

  • Repertory Wonders

    There may be important things missing in two mystery-laden musicals onstage now at Signature Theatre: a sleuth's youthful innocence, a kidnapped girl, a demonic horseman's...

  • Sizzlin' Good Stuff

    The theater world is on notice: In a few weeks, a past season's worth of understudies at Signature Theatre will take the stage in a...

  • Come to the Signature Cabaret, old chum

    Felicia Curry, James Gardiner, Jake Odmark and Bayla Whitten unite to close out Signature’s season with an eclectic evening of the greatest duets ever written...

  • Sondheim that Sates

    You love Stephen Sondheim, the gay genius behind such masterful musicals as Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion......

  • Theater Thursday! Art at Signature!

    Three longtime friends debate the purchase by one of a hugely expensive painting in Yasmina Reza’s Art. As the friends become increasingly fractious and, eventually,...

  • Lights Up

    The American musical wasn't born overnight. Like any art form, it came to be in fits and starts. Even today, some audience members -- and...

  • And the Curtain Rises

    And the Curtain Rises is the third part of Signature’s American Musical Voices Project, aimed at nurturing new shows. This valentine to musical comedy, a...

  • Mad About You

    While it's not necessarily the answer you expect, Florence Lacey makes a little bit of madness sound kind of relaxing. At least, that is, when...