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All posts tagged "signature theatre"

  • The Lost Songs of Broadway at Signature Theatre

    Signature opens its cabaret season with the songs that got away during the decade that gave us Gypsy, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, My...

  • Chess at Signature Theatre

    Chess does its very best to make you believe that there is nothing sexier than a board game. Signature Theatre has decided to kick the...

  • Game Boys

    When unhindered by such things as a degree in history or political science or more than passing knowledge of the works of, well, any of...

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    If you're a straight actor playing gay, who better to instruct you than your own gay twin brother? Perhaps no one, though don't expect him...

  • The Director's Wife

    When tasked with directing Signature Theatre's I Am My Own Wife, Alan Paul literally threw out the script. ''I wanted to free myself completely from...

  • Show Time

    At a time when the heavy bass of shows like Passing Strange and In the Heights and Rock of Ages are setting Converse-shod feet to...

  • More than a Cabaret

    A musical revue featuring songs from the creators of Chicago and Cabaret? Including standards such as ''New York, New York,'' ''Ring Them Bells'' and ''All...

  • Golden Girl

    Has there ever been a creature more mythic than “The Blonde''? From Monroe to Evita to Harlow to that most ambitious of blondes who borrowed...

  • Signature Moment

    Earlier this year, Arlington’s Signature Theatre won the Tony Award as the country’s best regional theater. This Saturday, at its annual open house, the theater...

  • Big Country

    Everything about the world-premiere musical Giant at Signature Theatre is as big as the title suggests. The ''Texas-sized'' musical features an ambitiously scaled concept, a...

  • Nuts

    Sometimes you should absolutely judge a book by its cover. 'One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest' The moment you take your seat for Round House...

  • Comic Relief

    When the phrase ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is uttered it is almost assured that most will leap to an image of Audrey Hepburn peering into the...

  • Happy Endings

    When Douglas Carter Beane had the idea to write a play about the struggles of a closeted movie star, he initially dismissed it as old-fashioned...

  • Epic Intimacy

    It's been some 20 years since Victor Hugo's novel of students and street hustlers took to the stage in a spectacle about poverty, true love...

  • Bloodbath

    Contrary to what the old wives tale would want you to believe, cats do not actually have nine lives. A visit to Google quickly reveals...