Check out this video of our Page to Stage conversation with Christopher Bloch, who played Melvin Thorpe in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Mr. Bloch is a Signature regular, and sported not one but two fake guns and a very fake hairpiece in this production. See what he has to say!
Check out this interview with Signature's Director of Marketing and Communications, Laurie Pomerson! Laurie supervises everything from graphic design to press releases to Signature's Facebook and Twitter accounts. In this interview, she talks about her work at Signature, and what it's like to put all that together.
Want to hear from more members of Signature's staff? Come to Page to Stage on November 5at the Shirlington Library - we'll take a look behind the curtain to talk to the people who make the shows happen on the design and production side. Come find out how everything from props to sets happens, and get a look into this usually invisible side of theatre! Page to Stage takes place on the first Monday evening of every month, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM .
Page to Stage is part of Signature's Free Community Events series and is open to the public.
This upcoming Monday, January 9th, at 6:30 PM, we'll be holding a very special Page to Stage downstairs at the Shirlington Library. Come on down to watch the original film Hairspray, written and directed by John Waters in 1988. Set in 1963 Baltimore, the comedy deals with issues such as body image and racial segregation. The movie stars Ricki Lake as Tracy, the “pleasantly plump” teenager; Divine, as her overweight and overbearing mother and features Sonny Bono and Jerry Stiller. Afterwards, stick around for a few minutes to talk about the movie, the musical, and the different ways they tell this timeless story. The movie's free, the popcorn's free - why would you not want to do this? We'll see you on Monday!
"The movie is a bubble-headed series of teenage crises and crushes..."
Roger Ebert
"Waters's best movie"
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
"The Waters film for your grandma, who will probably be only a little bit freaked out by it."
