Floyd King in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

SIGNATURE THEATRE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
All programs are free. No reservations required.

BROWN BAG THURSDAYS
The first Thursday of the month, join us for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Signature productions. Enjoy your lunch while you engage in an informal discussion with some of the artists from our 2008-2009 season.

1:00pm – 2:00pm
Signature’s Mead Lobby
4200 Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA 22206

September 4, 2008
Tony Award®-nominee Emily Skinner, last seen on Signature’s stage in the critically acclaimed production of The Witches of Eastwick, is featured in the new musical adventure Ace.

October 2, 2008
Popular DC actor John Lescault, last seen at Signature in the highly controversial Crave, returns in the bloody good comedy The Lieutenant of Inishmore.

John Lescault

November 6, 2008
Meet Maggie Boland, Signature’s new Managing Director.

December 4, 2008
To be announced.

January 1, 2009
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Signature will be closed.

February 5, 2009
Three-time Helen Hayes Award-winner Holly Twyford, last seen on the Signature stage in Ken Ludwig’s Twentieth Century, is back in The Little Dog Laughed.

March 5, 2009
Share a luncheon conversation with Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer about the American Musical Voices Project and Michael John LaChiusa’s Giant, the first work commissioned as part of the project.

April 2, 2009
Karlah Hamilton, Helen Hayes Award-winner for her cherry-spewing performance in The Witches of Eastwick, joins the cast of Michael John LaChiusa’s musical See What I Wanna See.

May 7, 2009
Guest Artist from the cast of Giant.

June 4, 2009
Summer at Signature: Associate Director Michael Baron will discuss the hot cabarets, the Open House, and other entertaining events at the Theatre during those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.

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FROM PAGE TO STAGE
Signature Theatre is “dark” on Monday nights, but the lights are on at the Shirlington Library where conversations with Signature staff and guest artists take place the first Monday of each month.

7:00pm – 8:00pm
Arlington Public Library, Shirlington Branch
4200 Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA 22206

October 6, 2008
The First Lady of Washington Theatre, Nancy Robinette, and her long-time collaborator, playwright Paulette Laufer, talk about the creativity workshop they are offering for The Signature School.

November 3, 2008
How does Signature’s Associate Director Michael Baron find the talent that appears on our stage? Learn more about the business of show business from a Casting Director’s point-of-view.

December 8, 2008
To be announced.

Sherri L. Edelen

January 5, 2009
Start the New Year with a double-helping of talent: Helen Hayes Award-winner Sherri L. Edelen and Helen Hayes-nominee Thomas Adrian Simpson.

February 9, 2009
Catch a preview of this year’s original one-act play written by Joe Calarco for Signature’s award-winning Signature in the Schools program.

March 2, 2009
To be announced.

April 6, 2009
Join Signature’s Assistant Director and See What I Wanna See director, Matthew Gardiner, for an in-depth look at LaChuisa’s music. Discover why the composer is heralded as the future of the post-Sondheim musical.

May 4, 2009
Bobby Smith wowed audiences as Satan in the summer production of Jerry Springer: The Opera co-directed by Matthew Gardiner. Smith makes his Signature debut, collaborating again with Gardiner in See What I Wanna See.

June 1, 2009
Playwrights on Stage: A preview of some of the new work written by the advanced drama students from Wakefield High School. Their work will be featured in a public reading at Signature later in the month.