The Signature's current production is a new play, "The Diaries," by John Strand, which stars a prominent local actor, Edward Gero, as Steve Alton (né Stefan Altsanger), a German-American novelist and entomologist who late in a celebrated life is threatened with the exposure of his Nazi past.
The current production is an unusual version with an expanded title — "Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed" — that tries to explain its larger ambitions.
He acknowledged, however, that the current production is "a little more broad" than the Los Angeles version.
(Their current production is an 80-minute "Pirates of Penzance"; next up is an hourlong "Romeo and Juliet").
Bad Robot's current production is an eight-part adaptation of Stephen King's 2011 novel 11.22.63, which takes the "What if you could kill Hitler?" time-travel trope and applies it to the JFK assassination.
At the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, for example, the current production is "Oedipus," a version of the Sophocles plays that deal with a shattering tragedy.
"Red, Hot and Blue," the Paper Mill Playhouse's current production, is such a new-old (or old-new?) show, though its composer-lyricist is Cole Porter.
Its current production is Shakespeare's "Cymbeline," a tale of love, war, jealousy and disguises, with an independent princess at its heart.
One current production is Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," a spaghetti Western aimed at a 2012 release.
