Now playing at Signature Theatre, **ANIMAL WISDOM** is a stage work that follows people looking to the nonhuman world for instruction, solace, and metaphor. The play traces how animal behavior gets translated into human language—sometimes carefully, sometimes wishfully—and what those translations reveal about grief, care, and survival. It lands in New York as part of the city’s long-running appetite for hybrid, idea-driven new writing, where science and storytelling routinely share a room. The quiet critical tension is whether “wisdom” is discovered or projected.