“Sylvia Khoury’s Selling Kabul and Ana Nogueira’s Which Way to the Stage both had well-received premieres in New York this season and we are excited to produce them in their area premieres. “We’re also thrilled to feature several new voices in our ARK Theatre next season,” continued Gardiner. These three shows represent the diversity and range of Sondheim,” said Signature’s Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner. Signature Theatre would not be the same without Sondheim – he IS Signature’s ‘signature.’ This season, we are honoring the legend with the entire season in our MAX Theatre dedicated to his memory. The death of Stephen Sondheim was a blow to everyone in the theater community. “This past November, the world lost an icon. More information on the 2022/23 season is available at /Subscribe. The season will also feature two additional musicals, the DC premiere of Ethan Lipton’s No Place to Go (August 30 – October 16, 2022) and Passing Strange by Stew and Heidi Rodewald (April 25 – June 18, 2023) plus, two new plays making their DC premieres, Ana Nogueira’s Which Way to the Stage (Decem– January 22, 2023) and Sylvia Khoury’s Selling Kabul (February 21 – April 2, 2023). The 33 rd season will feature three more, bringing the total of Signature-produced Sondheim musicals to 34, with all new productions of Into the Woods (Novem– January 29, 2023), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (May 16 – July 9, 2023), and the rarely produced Pacific Overtures (March 7 – April 9, 2023). Signature has produced 31 Sondheim productions in its 32 season history – more than any other theater in North America. “Then come forward, and here she is one of our own writers.”Ĭonvinced? Check out a Signature show this season and help it sell its next million.Arlington, VA – Signature Theatre announces its 33rd season today, which highlights the organization’s long-time relationship with the legendary Stephen Sondheim. “You can imagine there are other artists out there like Dominique who would not be able to be introduced to the kind of work we do without the ticket initiative,” Wolpert says. This month, Morisseau earned a Tony nomination for the musical Ain’t Too Proud. On that front, Wolpert says Signature will produce five plays next season that are written by women of color, and one of its current resident playwrights, Dominique Morisseau, even took advantage of the ticket initiative as a struggling performer more than a decade ago-back when tickets were $15 a pop. The other component is producing work that actually speaks to diverse communities. RSVP here → /fpRBNiNLHFīut low prices are only one part of the equation when it comes to theater inclusivity. Join us tomorrow at the Center as we toast to our Millionth Subsidized Ticket! All in attendance will be eligible to win a lifetime subscription to Signature. And perhaps most impressively, 15% of ticket buyers last season were new to Signature, a sign that the initiative is helping at least some people discover the joy of live theater for the first time. Moreover, almost a third of a Signature’s audiences are under the age of 50, and 28% are people of color. Contrast that to a typical Broadway-goer who comes from a two-person household that makes more than twice that, according to stats from the Broadway League. Almost 60% of Signature’s audience members had a two-person household that makes under $100,000 a year.

Today, the off-Broadway theater company is celebrating its one millionth ticket sold through the initiative, and the company says its audience demographics speak to the program’s success. Just quality plays for a fraction of what you would typically pay to see a show in Manhattan. New York’s Signature Theatre Company sought to tackle those questions 14 years ago with its innovative Signature Ticket Initiative, a program that offers unrestricted access to super-cheap theater prices (currently $35) no questions asked.

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