Performing Arts: Signature’s A Man in Pearls

Signature Theatre documents an East Berlin transvestite’s survival of WWII and the Communist regime.

By Julie LaPorte

Andrew Long. Photo by Scott Suchman.

I Am My Own Wife tells the true life story of a playwright who set out to chronicle the life of an East Berlin transvestite who survived Nazi rule and Communist oppression. Written by Doug Wright and directed by Alan Paul, I Am My Own Wife is playing at Signature Theatre through March 7.