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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. Peter Pan). A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels, the play was conceived for the stage by directors, Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, and written by Rick Elice, with music by Wayne Barker. From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair... and the bonds of friendship, duty and love.
A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains a precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.
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American Shakespeare Center is at Blackfriars Playhouse 10 S. Market Street, 4th Fl, VA.
Located in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, Virginia’s premiere classical theatre is at once intimate in scale and epic in imagination—creating vital, sophisticated, and accessible seasons built around a company of versatile actors performing in repertory all year round. We are a center for shared discovery by audiences, scholars, and artists of Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and classics old and new.
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The Dinner Detective Comedy Mystery Dinner Show
The Dinner Detective RVA (5/11 - 5/18) | |
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Noises Off
Caroline Community Theatre (6/6 - 6/16) | |
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The Outsider
Little Theatre of Virginia Beach (5/17 - 6/9) | |
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Rathskeller: A Musical Elixir
Zeiders American Dream Theater (5/3 - 5/18) | |
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SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE JERSEY LILY
Barter Theatre (9/14 - 11/8) | |
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The Dinner Detective Comedy Mystery Dinner Show
The Dinner Detective RVA (6/8 - 6/15) | |
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GRANDMA GATEWOOD TOOK A WALK
Barter Theatre (5/11 - 6/2) | |
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