Signature Theatre Company

Related to Build Giant West Side Tower With Theaters

The tower site, which is now a large foundation, in an earlier image.
Microsoft
The tower site, which is now a large foundation, in an earlier image.

Some marriages were meant to be.

Signature Theater Company has been something of an orphan of late, having been invited to, then booted out of a planned World Trade Center performing arts center last year. It has a home on the West Side, but has been looking for a bigger one in which to expand.

At the same time, the Related Companies has been hanging its head low since the Bloomberg administration and community members scoffed in 2006 at its plan to put a Cirque du Soleil theater in the base of a new West Side tower, thereby getting a special theater development "bonus" for the site.  read more »

Roll Over, Homer!

It’s Greek to Mee: In the playwright’s backyard.
Joe Fornabaio
It’s Greek to Mee: In the playwright’s backyard.

Charles Mee, 68, mashes up classics with pop-culture references for the Signature Theatre.  read more »

King Hedley II Returns, Majestically, Proclaiming August Wilson’s Greatness

Curtis McClarin and Lynda Gravatt in August Wilson
Carol Rosegg
Curtis McClarin and Lynda Gravatt in August Wilson

When it opened on Broadway six years ago, I wrote of August Wilson’s King Hedley II that it wa  read more »

Fall Preview: Stoppard! Shaw! And All Hail Chorus Line

Among the shows I’m looking forward to this fall (accompanied by a few prayers), let me begin by c  read more »

Fall Preview: Stoppard! Shaw! And All Hail Chorus Line

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Paul Kolnik
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Among the shows I’m looking forward to this fall (accompanied by a few prayers), let me begin  read more »

Ground Zero: Let the Memorial Be

One of the more curious aspects of the planning for a memorial at Ground Zero has been the bizarre p  read more »