Soft Power brings together some of theater's best talents. Written by Tony award-winning David Henry Hwang and with music by multi-award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori, this visionary musical fantasia fuses humor and an original script to tell the unexpected love story of a Chinese executive falling for Hillary Clinton following the 2016 election, as imagined by a man on the edge of consciousness.

After its critically lauded sellout premiere run in New York, Eboni Booth's Pulitzer Prize-Winning play Primary Trust comes to Washington's Signature Theatre. An innovative production about new beginnings directed by Taylor Reynolds the warming comedy follows Kenneth, a 36-year-old bookstore owner whose world is turned upside down when he loses his job.

Lend me your ears! Roman politics meets musical farce in this firm musical favorite, coming to Signature Theatre this fall, with music and lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. First premiering in 1962 on Broadway, the show was notable for winning several Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Author (Musical). Set around the antics of crafty Roman slave Pseudolus, he sets out to gain the hand of a non-too-bright courtesan for his master, to win his freedom.

Before Hamilton took over the world there was In the Heights! Lin-Manuel Miranda's exuberant portrait of Manhattan's Latino community on the island's Washington Heights was a sensational blockbuster show in its own right, picking up four Tony Awards and earning Miranda his first nomination for the Pulitzer Prize.

In a blaze of glitter and rock and roll, East German trans superstar Hedwig returns to San Francisco, courtesy of this brand new production of John Cameron Mitchell's fierce Tony-winning musical from Signature Theatre. Genre and gender-defying, prepare to join Hedwig and her band as she tells her story in a vibrant mix of comedy, drama, and sequins as set to one of the most raucous and unforgettable scores in musical theatre.