AROUNDTHECENTER
ANNOUNCING
SIGNATURE THEATRE’S
NEXT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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AFTER A NEARLY YEAR-LONG SEARCH
WE HAVE SELECTED SIGNATURE
THEATRE’S NEXT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR.
Paige Evans, currently the Artistic Director
of Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3, will be joining
us beginning July 1, 2016. Paige has spent the
last twenty years, at LCT3 and Manhattan
Theater Club, dedicated to advancing the field
and our writing community, and we are thrilled to
We continued our 25th Anniversary Season with
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welcome her to the Signature family.
works by Legacy playwright Arthur Miller and
Residency One playwright Naomi Wallace. We were
Founding Artistic Director Jim Houghton has
delighted to celebrate the 100th anniversary of
spent the past 25 years dedicated to building
Miller’s birth by bringing Incident at Vichy to the
Center in a moving production directed by Michael
Signature celebrates Arthur Miller’s
Centennial with Incident at Vichy
and Naomi Wallace
concludes her
residency with
Night is a Room.
Wilson (The Orphans’ Home Cycle and The Old
Signature around the unique mission of giving
playwrights a platform for their entire body
Friends). This was our first Miller play since his 1997-
of work, while also revolutionizing access to
98 Season. The world premiere of Night is a Room,
theatre through the Signature Ticket Initiative.
directed by Bill Rauch, Artistic Director of the
We are honored and excited to welcome
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, marked Wallace’s
final production as a Residency One playwright at
Paige as our next Artistic Director to build on
Signature’s legacy and lead its next chapter.
Signature. We’ve had quite a journey with Naomi,
presenting the US premiere of And I and Silence and
the New York premiere of The Liquid Plain, and we are
very proud to have her as part of the Signature family.
1. The cast at the opening
night of Arthur Miller’s
Incident at Vichy.
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2. Richard Thomas and Jonny
Orsini in Incident at Vichy.
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3. Darren Pettie and Richard
Thomas in rehearsal for
Incident at Vichy.
4. Dagmara Dominczyk and
Bill Heck in Night is a Room.
5. Naomi Wallace,
Bill Rauch, and the cast
of Night is a Room.
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Paige Evans.
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