2025-26 Season
Signature’s 2025-26 season will feature exhilarating tonal juxtaposition in the transcendent lyricism of ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS and ANIMAL WISDOM–two musical works from our newest resident, genre-defying theater maker Heather Christian–and the barbed comedy of Lauren Yee’s MOTHER RUSSIA, the second work in her Signature Residency.
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2025-26 PRODUCTIONS
ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS
Written by Heather Christian
Directed by Lee Sunday Evans
Fall 2025
In this “profoundly strange and overwhelmingly beautiful” (New York Times) music-theatre event, creator Heather Christian infuses a classical oratorio with a captivating blend of blues, gospel, jazz, and soul. Both otherworldly and achingly intimate, the piece surrounds and uplifts audiences, peeling back complex layers of what it means to be alive on both a human and a cosmic scale.
Staged by Obie Award-winning director Lee Sunday Evans and featuring a virtuosic company of singers and instrumentalists, the critically heralded Oratorio for Living Things makes its highly anticipated return, celebrating our curiosity, wonder, and all we’re capable of becoming when in communion with each other.
mother russia
Written by Lauren Yee
Winter 2026
St. Petersburg, 1992: the Soviet Union has collapsed, McDonald’s has risen, and Evgeny, a young man at a loss, stumbles into a job working surveillance with his old friend Dmitri. Their target: Katya, a former pop singer with questionable allegiances and a mysterious past. As their lives riotously intertwine, Evgeny finds himself falling in love and losing his bearings, all while grappling with the taste of freedom (and fast food) along the way. Lauren Yee’s (Cambodian Rock Band, The Great Leap) savvy, off-kilter tale of identity, espionage, and the cost of capitalism makes its New York premiere in this razor-sharp dark comedy.
ANIMAL WISDOM
Written by Heather Christian
Directed by Keenan Tyler Oliphant
Spring 2026
Step into a musical séance like no other — where the veil is thin, the music is wild, and the spirits of memory come roaring to life. Heather Christian’s “dazzlingly original” (Vogue) piece blends storytelling, requiem, and family mythology in a musical ritual made for sinners and saints alike. A journey into the haunted spaces of memory and loss, this transporting experience comes to Signature in a thrilling new production helmed by director Keenan Tyler Oliphant, diving deep into the relationship between the soul, the seen and the unseen. With her raucous, singular music fusing blues, gospel and folk, Obie Award-winner Heather Christian invites you to pay tribute to the forces that shape our lives.
