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Virginia Repertory Theatre Names Amy Wratchford as Interim Managing Director
by Stephi Wild - October 09, 2023
The Virginia Repertory Theatre board of directors has announced its appointment of Amy Wratchford as Interim Managing Director. Learn more about Amy here!...
American Shakespeare Center Announces Fall Season
by A.A. Cristi - July 27, 2023
American Shakespeare Center (ASC) finishes its 35th Anniversary Season and its celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio with a flourish, with vivid portrayals of two of Shakespeare's most complex and compelling characters: the bitter, tortured prince Hamlet and the proud, re...
12 Days Left To Vote For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards; Little Theatre of Virginia Beach Leads Favorite Local Theatre!
by BWW - December 19, 2022
The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....
Latest Stats Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards; at Hurrah Players Leads Best Ensemble Performance!
by BWW - December 12, 2022
The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....
Latest Standings Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards; Little Theatre of Virginia Beach Leads Favorite Local Theatre!
by BWW - December 05, 2022
The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....
NextStop Theatre Welcomes New Associate Artistic Directors
by A.A. Cristi - June 27, 2022
NextStop Theatre Company has officially announced the appointment of Charlotte La Nasa and Aria Velz as the company's new Co-Associate Artistic Directors. La Nasa and Velz join Producing Artistic Director Evan Hoffmann in leading the artistic and educational programming for the Northern Virginia-bas...
American Shakespeare Center Summer 2022 Season To Include Antoinette Nwandu's PASS OVER
by A.A. Cristi - April 05, 2022
American Shakespeare Center continues its 2022 season with a summer slate of plays that explore the connections between Shakespeare classics and contemporary theatre. Added to the list of previously announced titles will be the Antoinette Nwandu's groundbreaking drama Pass Over, which thrilled audie...
UVA Drama To Present HOW TO LIVE ON EARTH And The New Works Festival
by A.A. Cristi - February 11, 2022
The UVA Department of Drama will continue its 2021-2022 season with two exciting openings in a single weekend.
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Last Chance To Vote For The BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards; Wolfbane Productions's YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Staff - December 27, 2021
This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021....
Final Weeks To Vote For The BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards; Wolfbane's YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Staff - December 20, 2021
Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021....
Past Shows
A Christmas Carol
12/8 - 12/30/2022
A Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' most well-known story, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is a wealthy curmudgeon who believes that personal wealth ...
Pericles
9/30 - 11/27/2022
Sailors and pirates, nuns and hookers, innocent virgins and evil kings--seven actors play forty roles in Shakespeare's adventure tale about a shattered family trying to ...
The Tempest
9/23 - 11/26/2022
There could scarcely be a more provocative start to the season—or a more vivid way to experience Shakespeare’s beloved final play. Unique staging that transports ...
Une Tempête
10/27 - 11/26/2022
Passover
8/12 - 8/28/2022
Outcast Theatre Collective and The Studio at 620 team up to present PASS OVER.In PASS OVER, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandus "powerful and provocative" (Arifa Akbar, The ...
Thrive Or, What You Will
7/7 - 8/7/2022
Twelfth Night
6/9 - 8/6/2022
Every Brilliant Thing
5/27 - 7/3/2022
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make ...
The Comedy of Errors
3/31 - 5/15/2022
Romeo & Juliet
2/25 - 5/14/2022
This tragedy tells the story of two “star-cross'd lovers” from feuding families. During a party, Romeo and Juliet fall in love. They meet secretly until ...
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
12/1 - 12/31/2021
A Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' most well-known story, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is a wealthy curmudgeon who believes that personal wealth ...
KEENE BY ANCHULI FELICIA KING
10/7 - 11/28/2021
Macbeth
5/13 - 9/5/2021
Electrifying and immediate, Macbeth plunges headlong into the darkest depths of the human condition and the toxic underbelly of politics and warfare—with murder begetting murder, ...
All’s Well That Ends Well
8/5 - 9/4/2021
Helena has a heart that will not be denied. All’s Well That Ends Well upends and reexamines the love story, reveling in the imperfection. Part ...
Henry V
6/17 - 9/4/2021
In this final, epic installment of Shakespeare’s Henriad trilogy, ASC veteran Brandon Carter leads “once more unto the breach” as King Henry V—one of the ...
A Christmas Carol
11/2 - 12/3/2020
A Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' most well-known story, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is a wealthy curmudgeon who believes that personal wealth ...
The Merchant of Venice
6/26 - 11/29/2020
Against a backdrop of intolerance suddenly buffeted by change, Shakespeare weaves interconnected tales of friendship, love, and family while bringing to life one of his ...
Keene
9/24 - 11/28/2020
Two young scholars of color, adrift in a sea of white at a Shakespeare conference that could shape their careers, grapple with their longing for ...
Othello
6/19 - 11/28/2020
Evil is everywhere in Shakespeare’s great tragedy, as the love of Othello and Desdemona is destroyed by envy and jealousy, and truth twisted by innuendo. ...
Volpone
8/15 - 11/27/2020
In Jonson’s comic masterpiece, the residents of extravagant Venice are transformed into animals by an infection of greed, as the rich, sly Volpone tries to ...
Twelfth Night 90
6/19 - 8/27/2020
A merry 90-minute, no-intermission romp through one of Shakespeare’s most joyous rom-coms! Viola is in love with Orsino…who is in love with Olivia… who is ...
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
1/17 - 4/19/2020
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedic play by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the ...
Henry IV, Part 2
1/31 - 4/18/2020
While young Prince Hal follows the path toward kingship under the eye of his father, the aging Falstaff drinks and starts trouble. The satisfying end ...
Antigone
4/19 - 6/7/2019
Antigone’s father Oedipus sought the truth at the cost of losing his kingdom, his queen and his sight. A civil war erupts over which of ...
Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)
12/4 - 12/26/2018
Back by popular demand is Capital Stage's sell-out holiday hit! Part Big Bang, part Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, Every Christmas Story Ever Told ...
Emma
6/14 - 12/1/2018
Jane Austen's adored heroine gets the musical treatment in Emma from acclaimed composer and lyricist Paul Gordon (Daddy Long Legs, Jane Eyre). For centuries, Emma ...
The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter
8/22 - 11/30/2018
George Etherege; dir: Christopher Marino....
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
2/8 - 4/8/2018
Tom Stoppard's comedic tour-de-force "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" turns "Hamlet" on its head, telling the tale from the bewildered perspective of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, ...
The Life and Death of Richard the Second
1/20 - 4/7/2018
William Shakespeare. Blackfriars Playhouse:...
The Way of the World
3/1 - 4/6/2018
William Congreve. Blackfriars Playhouse:...
Antonio's Revenge
3/21 - 4/5/2018
John Marston. Blackfriars Playhouse:...
Peter and the Starcatcher
6/14 - 11/25/2017
Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. ...
The Fall of King Henry (Henry VI, Part 3)
9/7 - 11/25/2017
William Shakespeare; dir: Jim Warren....
The School for Scandal
2/2 - 4/9/2017
Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Blackfriars Playhouse:...
Coriolanus
1/19 - 4/8/2017
War is hell, but politics may be worse. And when one becomes the other, no one walks away unscathed. In this season of political warfare ...
The Merchant of Venice
1/13 - 4/8/2017
William Shakespeare. Blackfriars Playhouse:...
Shakespeare's Sister
2/23 - 4/7/2017
Emma Whipday. Blackfriars Playhouse:...
The Fair Maid of the Exchange
3/22 - 4/6/2017
Anonymous . Blackfriars Playhouse:...
The 12 Dates of Christmas
11/30 - 12/31/2016
A delicious new show about navigating life “alone” in New York. In the search for love, Mary has been set up, hooked up, strung up, ...
The 12 Dates of Christmas
11/30 - 12/31/2016
A delicious new show about navigating life “alone” in New York. In the search for love, Mary has been set up, hooked up, strung up, ...
Twelfth Night
6/14 - 11/27/2016
By William Shakespeare June 14 - November 27, 2016 Love flows freely and confusion runs rampant in Shakespeare's tale of shipwreck, mistaken identity, and unrequited ...
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
6/15 - 11/26/2016
By Alex Timbers Music and Lyrics By Michael Friedman June 15 - November 26, 2016 A president for the people, by the people -- that's ...
The Rise of Queen Margaret (Henry VI, Part 2)
9/7 - 11/26/2016
By William Shakespeare September 7 - November 29, 2016 In this wild carnival of avarice, Shakespeare gives us the glorious second-chapter of England's Wars of ...
King Lear
7/7 - 11/25/2016
By William Shakespeare July 7 - November 25, 2016 Shakespeare's profound exploration of the meaning of human life. King Lear is both timeless and unnervingly ...
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
4/6 - 6/10/2016
The story of England’s hero-king and the greatest upset in European military history is Shakespeare’s finale to his great history plays. More than that, Henry ...
Cyrano de Bergerac
6/17 - 11/30/2014
Enormous wit, tremendous bravery, and a gargantuan nose. Cyrano is passionately in love with the glorious Roxanne, but believes that she could never love him ...
Macbeth
6/18 - 11/29/2014
From the first words of the play until the title character loses his head, Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy is also his most unrelenting examination of the ...
The Comedy of Errors
7/9 - 11/28/2014
In this rollicking farce, Shakespeare elevates Roman comedy to dizzying heights. Two long-separated twins, their two tricky servants (also twins), a jealous wife, and her ...
The Merry Wives of Windsor
9/6 - 6/15/2014
The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare...
Henry IV, part 1
9/5 - 6/14/2014
Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare...
Othello
9/4 - 6/14/2014
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on ...
The Servant of Two Masters
1/16 - 4/6/2014
Celebrated director Christopher Bayes restages this magical comedy at the Shakespeare Theatre Company after a sold-out run at Yale Repertory Theatre. Identities are mistaken, engagements ...
Epicene (The Silent Woman)
2/20 - 4/5/2014
Epicœne, or The silent woman, also known as The Epicene, is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson....
The Maid's Tragedy
3/12 - 4/5/2014
The Maid's Tragedy is a play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher....
Timon of Athens
1/30 - 4/4/2014
Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon, generally regarded as one of his most obscure ...
As You Like It
1/3 - 4/3/2014
An idyllic Forest of Arden provides the lush backdrop for Shakespeare's glorious romantic comedy of courtiers, clowns, philosophers and provincials—all bewitched by the trials and ...
A Christmas Carol
12/6 - 12/28/2013
The 2012/13 Tempt Me Further Tour takes a break from touring the country to give you some ghostly season’s greetings. Marley, the three Christmas ghosts, ...
The Twelve Dates of Christmas
12/4 - 12/27/2013
Studio Theatre: Ginna Hoben....
The Santaland Diaries
12/3 - 12/26/2013
Heifetz Holiday Concert
12/19
Jascha Heifetz was a violinist who was born in Vilnius, former Russian Empire and contemporary Lithuania....
Return to the Forbidden Planet
6/18 - 12/1/2013
Romeo and Juliet
6/11 - 11/30/2013
Troilus and Cressida
9/3 - 11/30/2013
Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare....
All’s Well That Ends Well
7/7 - 11/29/2013
The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Free For All is a much-loved Washington tradition, offering free performances of a Shakespearean classic to the general public. STC is ...
She Stoops to Conquer
9/19 - 11/29/2013
She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith that was first performed in London in 1773....
Twelfth Night
4/10 - 6/16/2013
Writing at the height of his powers, Shakespeare provides a feast of language and songs — and a stage full of memorable characters — from ...
Love's Labour's Lost
4/12 - 6/15/2013
In Love’s Labour’s Lost, the King of Navarre and his three schoolmates are ripe for an education in love from the Princess of France and ...
The Duchess of Malfi
4/11 - 6/15/2013
John Webster’s brutal and astonishing play tells the story of one of the stage’s greatest women and two of its greatest villains. The widowed Duchess ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
9/9 - 6/17/2012
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
9/8 - 6/16/2012
By John FordIn English, with French surtitlesEN Under the stewardship of director Declan Donnellan and designer Nick Ormerod, Cheek by Jowl has established an international ...
The Winter's Tale
9/7 - 6/16/2012
Suspicious that his wife Hermione has been unfaithful, King Leontes of Sicilia imprisons the queen, orders the death of her suspected lover, and banishes his ...
Much Ado about Nothing
1/6 - 4/8/2012
Dido, Queen of Carthage
3/14 - 4/7/2012
Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding
2/2 - 4/6/2012
Richard III
1/19 - 4/5/2012
A Mad World, My Masters
2/23 - 2/24/2012
The Santaland Diaries
11/29 - 12/31/2011
The Twelve Dates of Christmas
11/30 - 12/29/2011
Studio Theatre: Ginna Hoben....
A Christmas Carol
12/6 - 12/28/2011
The Tempest
6/22 - 11/27/2011
There could scarcely be a more provocative start to the season—or a more vivid way to experience Shakespeare’s beloved final play. Unique staging that transports ...
Hamlet
7/10 - 11/26/2011
Tamburlaine the Great
9/22 - 11/26/2011
Henry V
9/16 - 11/25/2011
The Importance of Being Earnest
6/23 - 11/25/2011
Ever wish you could take a break from the responsibility of being you? Wilde’s two charming bachelors each enjoy a double life, running away from ...
Videos
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SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE JERSEY LILY
Barter Theatre (9/14 - 11/8) | |
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Rathskeller: A Musical Elixir
Zeiders American Dream Theater (5/3 - 5/18) | |
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Kinky Boots
Little Theatre of Virginia Beach (7/19 - 8/11) | |
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Disney's Descendants: The Musical
W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts (4/19 - 4/28) | |
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THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
Barter Theatre (6/15 - 8/17) | |
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THE WIZARD OF OZ
Barter Theatre (5/26 - 8/18) | |
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GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
Barter Theatre (11/20 - 12/29) | |
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