Barrett Wilbert Weed Will Join Wesley Taylor for Signature Theatre’s Cabaret

Broadway and off-Broadway favorites Barrett Wilbert Weed and Wesley Taylor will star in the Signature Theatre’s summer production of Cabaret. Performances will begin in Arlington, Virginia’s MAX Theatre on May 12 and run through June 28. Signature’s artistic director Matthew Gardiner will direct and choreograph.

The classic John Kander and Fred Ebb musical, which features a book by Joe Masteroff, follows American writer Cliff, who, upon traveling Berlin in the 1930s, encounters Sally Bowles (Weed), an English nightclub performer at the seedy Kit Kat Klub, led by the a zealous Emcee (Taylor). The two are thrown into a tumultuous affair amidst the Nazi rise to power. The Broadway production, set to play its final performance on March 29, currently stars Alan Cumming and Sienna Miller.

Weed made her Broadway debut in Lysistrata Jones and has starred off-Broadway in Bare, Heathers and—most recently—Found. Taylor has appeared on Broadway in Rock of Ages and The Addams Family and off-Broadway in Little Miss Sunshine.

Additional cast members include Rick Foucheaux as Herr Schultz, Naomi Jacobson as Fraulein Schneider, Bobby Smith as Ernst, Maria Rizzo as Fraulein Kost and Gregory Wooddell as Cliff. The ensemble will feature Shayna Blass, Kurt Boehm, Mark Chandler, Jordan DeBona, Jamie Eacker, Colleen Hayes, Rachel Schur, Jessica Thorne and Joseph Tudor.