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The Company produces fully staged works by each playwright -in-residence including re-examinations of past writings as well as New York and World Premieres. On the occasion of its 15th Anniversary, Signature Theatre Company announced a significant expansion of its programming that will more broadly explore the voice and vision of living playwrights. These initiatives will complement Signature's traditional presentation of a suite of plays examining the work of one playwright. Signature Theatre Company, along with the Joyce International Dance Center, has been designated to create a new performing arts center at the World Trade Center site to be designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry. At Signature Center, the company will expand its programming through the creation of three distinct residency programs that reflect the company's core mission to develop and explore the work of an individual playwright. The state-of-the-art center will include world-class performance and rehearsal spaces, a café, bookstore, lounges, and classrooms, as well as other public spaces that will offer a forum for activities such as staged readings, lectures, and special events. The center will serve as an artistic home for playwrights, performers, directors, and designers of varying ages, aesthetics, backgrounds, and experiences and a vibrant, year-round community center for Lower Manhattan and all of New York.