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Corporate Satire Stars Virginia Beach Performer Andrew Nelin and Broadway's Elisabeth Evans
by BWW News Desk - April 04, 2017
Anyone who loves movies such as Office Space, loathes their boss, or has ever been at odds with the 'buffoonery' of big business, take note: Virginia Musical Theatre (VMT) is back at it again with another production that will leave audiences laughing, relating, and commiserating.
Prism Coffeehouse Presents France's Acoustic Guitar Wiz Pierre Bensusan In Concert
by BWW News Desk - March 29, 2017
On Friday, March 31, France's acoustic guitar master Pierre Bensusan continues his 40 date tour of the USA and Canada with a concert sponsored in part by WTJU Radio and presented at the Prism Coffeehouse in Charlottesville, VA! 
Virginia Stage and NSU Theatre to Present THE WIZ This April
by BWW News Desk - March 28, 2017
Two of Hampton Road's leading performing arts organizations are teaming up to bring the seminal American musical, The Wiz, to downtown Norfolk. More than 50 performers and 20 technicians are working to make this musical the largest spectacle to hit the Wells Theatre in years. The collaboration between the companies is a landmark partnership for Hampton Roads.
Full Lineup Announced for Fifth Annual Red Wing Roots Music Festival
by BWW News Desk - March 26, 2017
The Steel Wheels and the Red Wing Roots Music Festival are pleased to announce a fifth consecutive year of great music and great fun at Natural Chimneys Park in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. This year's music festival will be held from July 14-16, 2017.
CAT Theatre Announces Cast for WHEN THERE'S A WILL
by BWW News Desk - March 22, 2017
CAT Theatre and When There's A Will director Ann Davis are pleased to announce the cast for this upcoming dark comedy:
THE INCOMPARABLE MISS COCO PERU Comes to RTP for Two Shows Only
by BWW News Desk - March 16, 2017
Richmond Triangle Players and Virginia Pride bring one of the country's most acclaimed comedian/monologists (and one fierce drag queen!) to Richmond when Miss Coco Peru takes the RTP stage on Thursday and Friday, March 30 & 31 at 8 pm in A Gentle Reminder: Coco's Guide to a Somewhat Happy Life.
The Hub Theatre presents a Marriage of Firsts: THE LATE WEDDING by Christopher Chen
by BWW News Desk - March 16, 2017
The Hub Theatre will present THE LATE WEDDING by Christopher Chen. The production is a marriage of firsts! Hub's production marks the play's DC area premiere and the company's first collaboration with Helen Hayes Awards-Nominated Director Kate Bryer (Associate Artistic Director, Imagination Stage).
Wolf Trap's 2017 Summer Shows on Sale This Saturday
by BWW News Desk - March 16, 2017
Tickets for Summer 2017 performances at Wolf Trap are officially on sale to the public beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 18.
Richmond Symphony Presents CHILD'S GUIDE TO ORCHESTRA, 3/25
by BWW News Desk - March 15, 2017
Richmond, Virginia Join the Richmond Symphony and special guest Professor Nigel Taproot on Saturday, March 25 at 11am for A Child's Guide to the Orchestra with Really Inventive Stuff.
Wolfbane's BEERS AND BALLADS to Keep the St. Patty's Festivities Going
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2017
Keep the St. Patrick's Day festivities going as Wolfbane Productions kicks off their 2017 season with their award-winning Beers and Ballads event on Saturday, April 1, 2017 in Historic Downtown Appomattox.
Firehouse Theatre's presents 2nd Annual Weekend of New Works
by BWW News Desk - March 13, 2017
Firehouse Theatre will produce its 2nd annual Weekend of New Works on Saturday and Sunday, April 1 and 2 featuring readings of new plays by Nedra Pezold Roberts, Kimberly Shelby-Szyszko, Augusto Federico Amador, and Bo Wilson, as well as monologues and one acts, panels, a cabaret, improv, music, food and drink.
New Theater Piece Explores Gun Violence and Community Healing; Commemorates 10 Years Since Virginia Tech Shootings
by BWW News Desk - March 13, 2017
Load singers and rappers into a chamber of music. Squeeze young people into a conversation about guns. Trigger action. (Be)longing, a new theater piece (featuring more than 45 locally cast singers, beatboxers, and hip-hop artists) by the critically-acclaimed team of composer Byron Au Yong and librettist Aaron Jafferis, will have its world premiere at Virginia Tech's Moss Arts Center on Friday, March 17 and Saturday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m.
Virginia Rep to Premiere END OF WAR by David L. Robbins Next Month
by BWW News Desk - March 10, 2017
Virginia Repertory Theatre opens the World Premiere of The End of War by David L. Robbins on March 10, 2017, on the Arenstein Stage at the Sara Belle and Neil November Theatre, 114 West Broad Street. The End of War will have two preview performances on March 8 and 9, 2017, and will run through March 26, 2017.
Audiences Will 'Wanna Rock' with the Reston Community Players
by BWW News Desk - March 10, 2017
The Reston Community Players are proud to present Rock of Ages, nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Musical, March 10 - April 1, 2017.
TheatreLAB presents TWILIGHT: Los Angeles, 1992
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2017
 TheatreLAB, Richmond's home for unexpected and evocative performance, is proud to present Anna Deavere Smith's stunning work of "documentary theatre," TWILIGHT: Los Angeles, 1992 as part of The Cellar Series: When The Other Becomes The Self. Directed by Addie Barnhart and starring TheatreLAB Associate Artistic Director, Katrinah Carol Lewis (2016 Richmond Theatre Critics Circle Award Winner, Best Actress in a Musical). The show will run March 24 thru April 1 at TheatreLAB's venue, The Basement (300 East Broad Street). TWILIGHT: Los Angeles, 1992 is being performed 25 years after the Rodney King Riots.
1st Stage Presents Lisa Kron's Riveting Play WELL
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2017
"This play is not about my mother and me," begins the character, Lisa. But, of course, it is about her mother, and her mother's extraordinary ability to heal a changing neighborhood, despite her inability to heal herself. Lisa Kron's "theatrical exploration of a universal experience" spans from her childhood in an integrating neighborhood in Lansing, Michigan to her stay at an allergy unit in Chicago when she was 19; exploring the interaction between those two stories of healing. This compelling exploration spins out of control into riotously funny and unexpected territory as Lisa takes the audience on a journey to discover why some people are sick and some people are well and the lengths to which we will go to understand each other. 
Firehouse Theatre Announces ALBEE FEST A Tribute to a Great American Playwright
by BWW News Desk - March 08, 2017
Firehouse Theatre presents ALBEE FEST as a tribute to one of America's greatest playwrights, Edward Albee. ALBEE FEST takes us from the sunny side of drama with THE SANDBOX and FINDING THE SUN, to disgruntled family struggles in MARRIAGE PLAY and COUNTING THE WAYS, to the indignant rantings of THE MAN WHO HAD THREE ARMS, and coming back to the beginning with THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY. These six little known works by the master dramatist will be performed in script-in-hand readings with a company of some of Richmond's most talented theatre artists within a festival environment designed by Tennessee Dixon and Bill Miller and directed by Jon Kretzu, Deejay Gray, and Zack Owen. Two companion events will round out the festival -- a special Edward Albee cabaret with Starlet Knight and Anthony Dowd, and Strange Bedfellows: Albee Edition. Additional festival events include Albee's performance installation KNOCK, KNOCK, WHO'S THERE, and cocktail parties after each performance.
Interactive Play NUTT AND BOLT Spotlights Upcycling at Arts on the Horizon
by BWW News Desk - March 08, 2017
Arts on the Horizon, an interactive theatre for children ages zero to six, is excited to announce the premiere of Nutt and Bolt, the story of two rival robots who unite to create something fantastic together.
Richmond Dance Festival Brings Diversity In Dance, 4/21
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2017
Dogtown Dance Theatre presents the 4th annual Richmond Dance Festival, April 21 through May 6, 2017. This three-weekend festival will feature both local and national dance artists as well as international dance film artists in the heart of the historic district of Manchester in Richmond, VA.
Virginia Arts Festival Presents Pants Down Circus Rock
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2017
What has big hair, wailing electric guitars, and stands on its head, on a ladder? Not a riddle-just a tiny glimpse of the fun in store when Australia's Pants Down Circus brings its Pants Down Circus Rock show to the Virginia Arts Festival, April 8 at TCC Roper Performing Arts Center.
Virginia Arts Festival Presents 2017 Virginia International Tattoo
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2017
For centuries, the cry 'Tattoo' has echoed throughout Europe - first a call by to innkeepers to 'Turn off the taps!' and then as the name for a grand display of military bands and drill teams. Fans of these massed spectacles of music and might flock to the world's great 'Tattoos:' the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland, the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland, the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo in Canada.
Virginia Arts Festival Presents Urban Bush Women in the World Premiere Performance of HAIR AND OTHER STORIES
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2017
The Virginia Arts Festival presents Brooklyn-based dance company Urban Bush Women (UBW) in the world premiere of Hair and Other Stories on Saturday, April 22 at 8 p.m. at the Attucks Theatre in Norfolk, Virginia. Tickets are $20-$35, available online at vafest.org, by phone at 757-282-2822 or at the Virginia Arts Festival box, 440 Bank St., Norfolk (10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday-Friday).
Virginia Arts Festival Presents Les Violons du Roy
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2017
Virginia Arts Festival presents a wealth of chamber music each season, offering music lovers opportunities to hear world-renowned artists in intimate settings. On April 21, the Festival will present the regional debut of the acclaimed Canadian chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy, performing works by Mozart, Stravinsky, and 20th century Romanian composer George Enescu.
Virginia Arts Festival Presents Yosvany Terry Quintet
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2017
Latin Jazz lovers-and anyone interested in the future of jazz-have extraordinary discoveries in store when the Virginia Arts Festival presents the Yosvany Terry Quintet on April 20.
Virginia Arts Festival Presents Bach's St. John Passion International Bach Academy of Stuttgart
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2017
For fans of Johann Sebastian Bach, Easter weekend 2017 brings good news indeed: the Virginia Arts Festival presentation of Bach's St. John Passion, performed by the internationally renowned Bach Academy at Stuttgart.

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