The Signature Theatre is an award-winning, Off-Broadway theatre company that develops playwrights in residence, partly by producing multiple productions that represent a body of work. That makes it a special place in NYC’s theatrical ecosystem.
It’s not a Latin theatre, but develops great Latin and Black playwrights. We have watched New York Haitian playwright Dominique Morisseau develop plays that move to Broadway. 🇭🇹
The Theatre’s tag line is “A home for storytellers. A space for all.” That’s exactly what it is.
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Signature Theatre Latin Shows
OCTOBER
Haitian Play
“Bad Kreyol” is the World Premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s play about the conflict that arises when a Haitian American tries to connect with her Island Haitian family. It’s co-produced with the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Signature Theatre in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; from October 8 to December 1, 2024. From $49. 🇭🇹
This is a universal part of the immigrant experience ~ no matter where you come from. It’s natural to think everyone lives the way you do, but Americans hosting family in New York or visiting their heritage homeland, may find themselves in a very unfamiliar world. There usually comes a tragic moment when the family in the old country says, you’re not one of us any more, you’ve changed. You’ve become one of them. The immigrant generation finds itself stuck in between two worlds, and not fully accepted by either one. It happened to my father when he moved to the United States. It happens to me since I left the United States. As much as I try to fit in, people always tell me, “you’re not from here.”
NYC Off-Broadway Week 2-for-1 tickets are available for select performances. We think this show will move to Broadway. Go see it and help this happen.
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About Signature Theatre
The Signature Theatre was founded in 1991 by actor James Houghton. In addition to developing playwrights, The Signature tries to make theatre affordable so all New Yorkers can enjoy it.
The theatre complex on 42nd Street was designed by legendary architect Frank Gehry.
In 2024, the Theater is led by Artistic Director Paige Evans, and Executive Director Timothy J. McClimon.
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Latin Artists
When you dig into it, the calibre of Signature Theatre playwrights is mind-blowing. There are so many whose work you respect. Most New Yorkers are from somewhere else. When we come to The City, we hope to see a little of people like ourselves in it, and also add something of ourselves to the great melting pot. Signature Theatre satisfies both dimensions. In true visionary fashion, it was producing artists of color, long before that was fashionable. The world is coming around to Signature’s point of view, one great new play at a time.
August Wilson (1945-2005), “the theater’s poet of Black America” produced one of his late plays, “How I Learned What I Learned” at The Signature.
Dominique Morisseau is an award-winning Haitian American playwright and 2018 MacArthur Fellow. Her Signature plays include “Paradise Blue” (2018), “Confederates” (2022), and “Bad Kreyol” (2024).
Lynn Nottage is an African American playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: for “Ruined” in 2009, and for “Sweat” in 2017.
Stephen Adly Guirgis is an award-winning Irish Egyptian New York playwright and actor who has a profound grasp of the way New Yorkers live. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for “Between Riverside and Crazy.” His Signature productions include “Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train” and “Our Lady of 121st Street.” Our favorite work of his is “The Get Down,” the Netflix show about the birth of hip hop in 1970s New York on which he worked with director Baz Luhrmann (“Moulin Rouge”).
Suzan-Lori Parks is a MacArthur Fellow who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for “Topdog/Underdog” in 2002. She was the first African American woman to win this Pulitzer. Signature produced her The Red Letter Plays: “In the Blood,” and “Fucking A.”
Good theatre can be a transcendental experience that changes you in some way. The Signature Theatre is a place to grow.