Venue: Signature Theatre (Arlington, Virginia)
Town: Arlington, US

Signature Theatre is a Tony Award-winning regional theater company based in Arlington, Virginia. Cameron Mackintosh, Terrence McNally, James Lapine, John Kander, and Fred Ebb are among those that have presented works here. Since 1991, Signature has had a long relationship with Stephen Sondheim, having staged more than 30 productions of his musicals, revues and concerts-more than any other professional theater in the country. Signature Theatre was founded in 1989 by Eric D. Schaeffer and Donna Migliaccio with Schaeffer serving as artistic director from the company's founding until his resignation on June 23, 2020, amidst multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault. Signature began production in the Arlington County Gunston Arts Center. This original venue was in the library of a middle school which had been converted to a black box theater. Having rapidly outgrown the Gunston facility, Signature in 1993 acquired a defunct Auto Bumper Plating shop, AKA "The Garage", which was converted into a 136-seat black box theatre. In 2007, in partnership with Arlington County, Virginia, Signature moved into its current facility, a $16 million theater complex in The Village at Shirlington. The first floor of the building houses the Shirlington Branch of the Arlington County Public Library, the upper three floors house the theater. The complex has an industrial decor with exposed particle board, pipes and metal sheeting. The pair of state-of-the-art black box theaters are each built as a "square box within a square box, floating on hockey pucks. At $30 a puck. It is built like a soundstage." The Max - the larger of two flexible theatre spaces, named in honor of Maxine Isaacs, seats between 275 and 350 patrons. The Ark - the smaller theatre space, seating up to 99 patrons, named in honor of Arlene and Robert Kogod. In addition to the two performance spaces, the complex contains a lobby, meeting rooms, three rehearsal spaces, four individual dressing rooms, three shared dr