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Creative Cauldron Closes 2023-24 Season With THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN


by A.A. Cristi - May 03, 2024

In May, Creative Cauldron will present The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin. A show about a girl who is stuck between two worlds within her own identity, as she strives to make a name for herself in the bright lights of Broadway....

The Mark Morris Dance Group Will Embark on International 15-City Tour with World Premiere and Celebrated Repertory


by Stephi Wild - October 03, 2023

The Mark Morris Dance Group will resume touring for its 2023-2024 season, with fifteen confirmed nationwide and international stops from October 2023 to June 2024. Learn more about where to catch the show here!...

Live Arts Expectations 2023-24 Season To Open In Downtown Charlottesville This September


by A.A. Cristi - September 01, 2023

Live Arts Theater has announced a dynamic lineup of four plays, a powerhouse musical, and a new works festival for its 2023/24 Expectations Season. The 33rd anniversary season opens with Anton Chekhov's UNCLE VANYA performed in rotating repertory with LIFE SUCKS. by Aaron Posner, followed by a holid...

HEATHERS THE MUSICAL: Teen Edition to Open At Live Arts in July


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 07, 2023

The Live Arts Teen Summer Musical returns with a darkly funny and slyly subversive musical for summer 2023! HEATHERS THE MUSICAL: Teen Edition is written and composed by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe, based on the 1980s cult classic film....

Live Arts Theater to Present WATERWORKS Festival This Spring


by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 14, 2023

Live Arts Theater in downtown Charlottesville will present WATERWORKS, a celebration of new theatrical writing across four weekends. This inaugural WATERWORKS festival runs May 12 through June 3, 2023. ...

Hilarious Solo Show BUYER & CELLAR To Open April 7 At Live Arts


by A.A. Cristi - March 03, 2023

The Live Arts 2022/23 Transformations Season continues with Jonathan Tolins' delightfully comic solo show, BUYER & CELLAR, directed by Jude Hansen. BUYER & CELLAR will have 16 performances in the Founders Theater, April 7 through April 29, 2023, at Live Arts Theater....

Live Arts Homecoming Benefit Welcomes Back Actor Adelind Horan, March 25


by A.A. Cristi - February 08, 2023

Live Arts welcomes back Adelind Horan, star of the newly released Amazon Prime science fiction series, 'The Peripheral,' for a benefit performance on Saturday, March 25 in Live Arts' Gibson Theater. The evening opens with a homecoming pre-show reception at 7pm, followed by a multicast showcase of ta...

Lynn Nottage's CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY To Open At Live Arts in March


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 08, 2023

The Live Arts 2022/23 Transformations Season will continue with Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage's poignant memory play, CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY, directed by Live Arts Education Director Ti Ames. ...

Virginia Premiere Of Jez Butterworth's THE RIVER To Open At Live Arts in January


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 21, 2022

Live Arts Theater's 2022/23 Transformations Season is leaping into the new year with the Virginia premiere of Jez Butterworth's hauntingly lyrical THE RIVER, directed by Robert Chapel. ...

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....

Past Shows

Once
3/22 - 3/24/2024


Set in Dublin, the story revolves around Guy, a talented but discouraged street musician, and a young Czech woman, simply known as Girl. Guy's music ...

HEATHERS THE MUSICAL: Teen Edition


"What's your damage, Heather?" Our 2023 Teen Summer Musical is a dark comedy throwback to the 1988 cult classic film full of preppy fashion and ...

Buyer & Cellar
Buyer & Cellar
4/7 - 4/29/2023


Strauss Construction presents BUYER & CELLAR by Jonathan Tolins On stage at Live Arts April 7-29, 2023 Directed by Jude Hansen Starring Jack Clifford   ...

CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY


The Caplin Foundation presents CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY  by Lynn Nottage Directed by Ti Ames Sponsored by Allison Partners On Stage March 3-19, ...

The River
The River
1/20 - 2/11/2023


Panorama Consulting and George Worthington & Cameron Mowat present THE RIVER  by Jez Butterworth Directed by Robert Chapel On Stage January 20-February 11, 2023 THE ...

Violet
Violet
11/18 - 12/10/2022


Live Arts in downtown Charlottesville is proud to present the award-winning musical VIOLET, a soaring musical pilgrimage featuring music by Jeanine Tesori and lyrics and ...

Love and Information
Love and Information
9/30 - 10/22/2022


LOVE AND INFORMATION is a super-charged compilation of 50+ short playlets, featuring more than 100 characters, each one exploring the mysterious complexity of human connections.Caryl ...

Accidental Death of an Anarchist


ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST by Dario Fo | Translated by Jon Laskin & Michael Aquilante | Directed by Susan E. Evans Call it subversive. ...

The Children
The Children
4/15 - 5/7/2022


Why has a former colleague suddenly reappeared after 38 yearsto rekindle a long-ago affair? Or does she have a more dangerous purpose in mind? A ...

Pipeline
Pipeline
1/14 - 1/30/2022


With language lyrical and potent, MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow Morisseaus deeply compassionate and dynamic new play dives into the painful truth of the school-to-prison pipeline....

Every Brilliant Thing
Every Brilliant Thing
10/15 - 11/7/2021


The Live Arts reIGNITE Season launches with EVERY BRILLIANT THING by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, a gently humorous and uplifting solo show about depression ...

The Liar
The Liar
5/18 - 6/3/2018


“Ives’s Liar is a treat—and that’s the truth.” – Entertainment Weekly Meet our hero, the rapscallion who raises lying to an art form. Buckle up ...

Fun Home
Fun Home
3/9 - 3/25/2018


“Heart-gripping and cathartic, FUN HOME occupies the place where we all grew up.” – New York Times FUN HOME traces the coming-of-age of young Alison ...

Top Girls
Top Girls
2/2 - 2/24/2018


“A once-daring play has matured over 30 years into a genuine classic, as pertinent and piercing as ever.” – The Hollywood Reporter Caryl Churchill’s ground-breaking ...

Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity
12/1 - 1/6/2018


“It’s slick, it’s funny, but it is also… nudging us towards a question: how to be good, in a world such as this?” – The ...

A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance
10/13 - 11/11/2017


“Be prepared for a surprise: an evening of theatrical fireworks that prompt astonished oohs and ahs, genuine laughter and a certain amount of delicious unease.” ...

Videos


VAVibe Music Festival in Central Virginia VAVibe Music Festival
The Prizery (6/22 - 6/22) Tracker
THE WIZARD OF OZ in Central Virginia THE WIZARD OF OZ
Barter Theatre (5/26 - 8/18)
Shrek the Musical, Jr. in Central Virginia Shrek the Musical, Jr.
The Prizery (7/19 - 7/21)
KISSNATION SEX SYMBOL, BILLY MAY, BARES ALL - KISSNATION: READY TO ROCK AND ROLL ALL NITE AT EMBER MUSIC HALL IN RICHMOND, VA in Central Virginia KISSNATION SEX SYMBOL, BILLY MAY, BARES ALL - KISSNATION: READY TO ROCK AND ROLL ALL NITE AT EMBER MUSIC HALL IN RICHMOND, VA
Ember Music Hall (6/8 - 6/8)
PHOTOS
The Dinner Detective Comedy Mystery Dinner Show in Central Virginia The Dinner Detective Comedy Mystery Dinner Show
The Dinner Detective Virginia Beach (6/22 - 6/29)
Les Miserables in Central Virginia Les Miserables
Chrysler Hall (9/10 - 9/15)
Kinky Boots in Central Virginia Kinky Boots
Little Theatre of Virginia Beach (7/19 - 8/11)
Mean Girls (Non-Equity) in Central Virginia Mean Girls (Non-Equity)
Chrysler Hall (10/22 - 10/27)
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