Based on the real-life Mary Seacole, 19th century Jamaican nurse, adventurer and entrepreneur, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play MARYS SEACOLE sets sail on a kaleidoscopic voyage ...
A tender and deeply poignant play by one of the most celebrated American playwrights of the 20th century. Cooped up together in a two-bedroom Houston apartment ...
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...
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....
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. ...
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....
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...
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. ...
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. ...
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 19, 2022
Live Arts Theater's 2022/23 Transformations Season journeys forward with the award-winning musical VIOLET. This soaring musical pilgrimage features music by Jeanine Tesori and lyrics and book by Brian Crawley. VIOLET will have 12 performances in the Gibson Theater, November 18 through December 10, 2...
Featuring the oh-so-catchy musical score from the 1939 classic film, this enchanting RSC stage adaptation of THE WIZARD OF OZ sweeps us from the Kansas ...
A lone Poet wearily enters with a suitcase. They’ve endured an eon of traveling, reciting an age-old epic tale. AN ILIAD is a brilliant, spellbinding, ...
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME
by Heidi Schreck
28 September - 28 October, 2024
Directed by Cady West Garey
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 ...
"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 ...
Strauss Construction presents BUYER & CELLAR by Jonathan Tolins On stage at Live Arts April 7-29, 2023 Directed by Jude Hansen Starring Jack Clifford ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 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 by Dario Fo | Translated by Jon Laskin & Michael Aquilante | Directed by Susan E. Evans Call it subversive. ...
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 ...
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....
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 ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
“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.” ...
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Top Girls
Little Theatre of Norfolk (2/28 - 3/16) | |
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Le Roi Soleil
Vorst Nationaal/Forest National (3/28 - 3/29) | |
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KING LEAR
Blackfriars Playhouse (2/13 - 4/19) | |
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Shakespeare's King Lear
Stage Door Productions (2/21 - 3/2) | |
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Little Shop of Horrors
Wells Theatre (3/12 - 3/30) | |
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MARYS SEACOLE
Live Arts (2/14 - 3/2) | |
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The Producers
Little Theatre of Virginia Beach (7/18 - 8/10) | |
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