Signature Theatre 2017/2018 Season
Signature Theatre 2017/2018 Season
BakerWilliams
Leading Actor Joined: 2/1/16
#1Signature Theatre 2017/2018 Season
Posted: 4/4/17 at 3:48pm
A pretty decent season, though not spectacular.
In the Blood
F*cking A
Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train
Homelife and the Zoo Story
Paradise Blue
Our Lady of 121st Street
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#2Signature Theatre 2017/2018 Season
Posted: 4/4/17 at 3:57pm
The Albee is listed as being presented rights pending. This is the first time I can remember a theater announcing a show they didn't yet have the rights to, and it seems odd considering Signature's long association with Albee.
I saw Paradise Blue at Williamstown a few seasons ago and found it mostly forgettable. The two Suzan-Lori Parks plays are not her best work. Compared to the bumper crop Signature has produced the last few seasons, this one feels a bit disappointing.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 4/4/17 at 03:57 PM
#3Signature Theatre 2017/2018 Season
Posted: 4/4/17 at 4:01pm
These are all great plays but I'm kind of disappointed because we're not to far removed from the last productions of these plays. That being said, I love "In the Blood" and can't wait to see it.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#4Signature Theatre 2017/2018 Season
Posted: 4/4/17 at 6:25pm
I was already excited about the Parks plays which were announced earlier, but the rest of the season just doesn't seem that exciting. Maybe because Guirgis feels like too young a playwright to be getting the retrospective treatment. It does feel like we had chances to see his plays so recently. Or maybe I'm just getting older and that's affecting how I'm perceiving the playwright's chosen! But I would love if there were another Residency Five show included from one of the other gifted artists in that program.
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