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It might feel like summer just started, but it’s never too early to plan what shows you’re going to see in the fall. In New York, buzzy new shows tend to sell out quickly. Summer in New York is a slower season for theatre, where many companies take a break — but fall is when the new theatre season begins and new shows pop up all over.

Signature Theatre’s SigSpace will present the first-ever installation from Quiara Alegría Hudes and Sean Ortiz’s Emancipated Stories project, designed by Yazmany Arboleda with Emmanuel Oni and featuring letter-writing sessions and pop-up performances produced in collaboration with The Fortune Society.

If you’re looking for a good book to get lost in this summer, Westminster College faculty members have a few suggestions. We asked our professors what books were on their summer reading lists, and they offered up a number of titles. Some reflect their scholarly interests, while others are purely for pleasure. If you’re hoping to expand your mind or are just looking for a light buzzy beach read, check out Westminster College’s Faculty Summer Reading List.

Signature Theatre, which makes an extended commitment to producing a playwright's body of work, announces its 2022 Gala in the sweeping lobby of its own Frank Gehry-designed home, The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street).

Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre has announced the full slate of shows in its 2022-23 season, which kicks off in the fall. Four plays make up the lineup at the Pershing Square Signature Center, including an Off-Broadway-premiere play and three world premieres by acclaimed writers.

The off-Broadway theater will also present new work by Sarah Ruhl and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

Her first pop up was at Garage in Fishtown.

The acclaimed ‘My Broken Language’ and ‘In the Heights’ writer is back in her hometown for a talk.

The lecture was the first of the museum’s “Myth, Religion, and Race: the Art of Harmonia Rosales” lecture series, examining works by Harmonia Rosales, an Afro-Cuban American artist.

This year’s all-city read is My Broken Language, a memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Puerto Rican descent about growing up in Philadelphia.