CENTRAL VIRGINIA THEATER REVIEWS

From puppetry and stage magic to big dance numbers and notable performances, Virginia Repertory Theatre's production of Beauty and the Beast has something for everyone. Billed as children's theatre, the company puts forth a noble effort to mount a show with many accouterments of a mainstage producti...

VSC's and NSU's Co-production of THE WIZ runs through April 30 at the Wells Theatre in Norfolk....

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL is part of the 2016-2017 Broadway in Richmond series....

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, at the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts, through April 23....

While not landmark piece of musical theatre, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER delivers a few hours of escapist fun and a slew of 1970's disco tunes that will likely take some audience members back to their days in bell bottoms, platform shoes, and hustling the night away. With strong leading performances, a st...

Four towering music legends live on in a rousing, tune-filled walk down memory lane at Fredericksburg's Riverside Center for the Performing Arts. Fans of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins need look no further than the retrospective musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, now bringing audi...

Written and first presented two decades ago, FULLY COMMITTED was revised and revived in New York recently with Broadway veteran and one of the costars of TV comedy hit 'Modern Family,' Jesse Tyler Ferguson. This brought enough interest in the show to warrant additional productions and Carolyn Griffi...

Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the quartet of seasonal spectres - if these characters are back in action, it must mean A CHRISTMAS CAROL has returned to spread humbug and cheer in the Kellar Family Theatre in Manassas. The resident community theatre at the Center for the Arts, Rooftop Productions, is offeri...

Music driven and socially poignant, this new adaptation of Oliver Twist is melancholy and dreamlike....

Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents a first class production of Alfred Uhry's prize-winning drama DRIVING MISS DAISY. Expertly directed by renowned Washingon, DC-based actor/director Rick Hammerly and starring Karen Grassle from LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE in the title role, Riverside'...

In cold, gray, industrial abstraction The Pilot describes in euphoric detail what it means to be surrounded in blue. We are never given the blue she sees. What we do get is a precisely projected wash of fluid blue light swirling on the large steely walls that line the perimeter of her world and we c...

This past weekend, Liberty University's Department of Theatre Arts opened its production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's World War II era musical, SOUTH PACIFIC. In the midst of two snowstorms, a transformation to the South Pacific was the perfect way to let the Lynchburg area know that spring and warm...

'When I was young, I wish I could fly!' And fly the boy did. This weekend, Alluvion Stage Company debuted another first for the central Virginia area: PETER AND THE STARCATCHER....

This one act marvel truly embodies the heart of the season...

With themes of unconditional love, family, and hope, Mame makes for a perfect Christmastime musical...

If you enjoy country music…if you enjoy Christmas music….you will enjoy The Honky Tonk Angels Holiday Spectacular...

While more than 30 years have passed, Virginia Repertory Theatre at Hanover Tavern's current production shows that the musical stands the test of time....

TheatreLAB and Spin, Spit and Swear have started their season off right with a production that I am sure we will still be talking about at next year's RTCC Awards!...

The creative sets and overall solid performances will help fans of Arthur Conan Doyle's works enjoy CAT Theatre's current production...

Take a leap of faith "sight unseen" and go and see Sight Unseen...

The play itself is a dichotomy. While written by Noel Coward in 1932, and no longer as controversial as it was in its day, the material is still timely and the themes are not dated....

Uneven performances and constant technical problems dragged down what could have been a unique and suspenseful evening of theater....

For non-stop laughs; run, don't walk to see "See How They Run."...

H20 is the right baptism to welcome this infant production company into Richmond's theater community....