Signature Theatre

Nova Y. Payton puts her own spin on the Queen of Soul's greatest hits, including “Think,” “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” and “Amazing Grace,” in this cabaret tribute.

Sondheim's musical follows three friends' personal and professional unraveling in reverse, opening on their fractured present and rewinding scene by scene back to the hopeful day they first met. Signature's Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner directs.

Tracy Lynn Olivera toasts the Golden Age of Broadway's leading ladies, from Ethel Merman to Julie Andrews to Barbara Cook, in a cabaret tribute built around classics like “I Have Confidence” and “The Party's Over.”

Adam Gwon's musical, following its 2025 world premiere at New York's Keen Company, follows a closeted small-town math teacher coaching a misfit student for the state Thespian convention, whose carefully compartmentalized life begins to unravel.

The classic musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel follows orphaned Mary Lennox as she's sent to live with her reclusive uncle, where she discovers a locked, dormant garden and slowly revives it, along with the grieving household around her.

Ngozi Anyanwu's play, following its 2025 premiere at Two River Theatre, gets its DC premiere here, following two estranged siblings whose reunion is bound up in their shared history with martial arts.

Singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer (The Lion) performs this solo musical with a live band, tracing his attempt to become a different kind of father than his own while love, anxiety, and grief complicate the plan.

Fresh off a run at the Edinburgh Fringe and two sold-out Off-Broadway engagements, Laura Benanti brings her New York Times Critic's Pick solo show to Signature, mixing brutally honest takes on motherhood and people-pleasing with original songs co-written with Todd Almond.

John Leguizamo's solo show gets a new performer for its Signature run: Brian Quijada (Mexodus) takes over the lecture turned confession about Latin American history, prompted by his son's experience with racist bullying at school.

This satire of capitalism, bureaucracy, and musical theater itself returns to Signature two decades after its Helen Hayes Award-winning 2006 production, following a rebel who fights back after a water shortage puts a price on every trip to the bathroom.

This cabaret tribute runs from Sister Rosetta Tharpe through Janis Joplin, Joan Jett, and Tina Turner, covering rock staples like “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” and “Edge of Seventeen.”