The Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, has announced eight productions slated for its 30th anniversary season, including an all-new staging of Stephen Sondheim and James Weidman鈥檚 Assassins, which will kick off the 2019-2020 season in August.
Directed by Signature Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer, Assassins marks the theatre's 30th Sondheim production to date. Performances run August 11鈥揝eptember 29. Initial casting for the production includes Tracy Lynn Olivera (Signature鈥檚 A Little Night Music), Bobby Smith (Signature鈥檚 Grand Hotel), Evan Casey (Signature鈥檚 The Flick), Rachel Zampelli (Signature鈥檚 Heisenberg), and Nova Y. Payton (Signature鈥檚 Ain鈥檛 Misbehavin鈥�).
Caryl Churchill鈥檚 surreal comedy Escaped Alone, where amiable chatter between old friends belies apocalyptic horror, will make its D.C. premiere September 24鈥揘ovember 3 under the direction of Holly Twyford.
The Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway classic A Chorus Line will follow, October 29鈥揓anuary 5, 2020, in a new staging featuring choreography by Tony nominee Denis Jones (Tootsie, Holiday Inn, Honeymoon in Vegas) and direction by Matthew Gardiner.
The world-premiere musical Gun & Powder, featuring book and lyrics by Angelica Ch茅ri and music by Ross Baum, will kick off the new year January 28鈥揊ebruary 23. Robert O鈥橦ara (Bootycandy) will direct the musical based on the true story of Wild West outlaws Mary and Martha Clarke, light-skinned African American twins who pass themselves as white to seize funds by any means necessary.
The Signature will also produce Easy Women Smokin Loose Cigarettes, a world-premiere comedy by D.C.-based playwright Dani Stoller, running February 18鈥揗arch 29. The play about a pair of empty-nesters whose idyllic retirement is hijacked by friends and family in various stages of crisis, will be directed by Stevie Zimmerman.
Composer Frank Wildhorn and lyricist Nan Knighton, the collaborators behind Broadway鈥檚 The Scarlet Pimpernel, have reteamed to continue work on their musical based on the life of turn of the century French sculptor Camille Claudel. Schaeffer will direct the March 24鈥揂pril 19 world-premiere run.
The Signature will revive its 1998 production of Norman Allen鈥檚 Nijinsky鈥檚 Last Dance, a tour-de-force portrait of famed ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, which will be directed by Joe Calarco April 14鈥揗ay 24.
Closing the season will be the landmark 1968 musical Hair, running May 19鈥揓uly 12. Gardiner will direct and choreograph the counterculture musical by Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rando that became the soundtrack of a generation.
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