Empowered Players Gives Children a Place to Grow Artistically and Personally Through Free Theater Classes
University alumna Jessica Harris founded and serves as the artistic director for the nonprofit organization.
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Live Reading April 7: “She Wrote Plays” Audio Drama Series
What if women wrote great plays but everyone forgot about them? Even though their themes remain super relevant? WTJU 91.1 FM and UVA Drama present “She Wrote Plays” – new takes on works from a century ago by forgotten women playwrights. Charlottesville-based playwrights, tech producers, and actors have taken these old scripts and adapted them into modern radio dramas.
New Works Festival Is a Triumph in Student-Led Productions at U.Va.
On a busy Thursday night on Arts Grounds, the student-led, annual New Works Festival opened with resounding success.
UVA Drama Continues 2023-2024 Season with 'The Green Bird'
The UVA Department of Drama will continue its 2023-2024 season with 'The Green Bird', Carlo Gozzi’s 1765 commedia dell’arte inspired telling of an Italian fable that combines spectacular comedy, enchanted forests, singing apples, and a mysterious green bird. 'The Green Bird', directed by Dave Dalton, opens March 21 at Culbreth Theatre.
ARTS OPPORTUNITY • 2024 Chorus Auditions for Charlottesville Opera
2024 Chorus Auditions: Saturday, March 2 at the Charlottesville Band Building at 1119 Fifth Street SW, Charlottesville, VA 22902. Charlottesville Opera Adult and Children's Chorus members are crucial parts of every season! This season, our shows are 'The Music Man' and 'L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love)'. 'The Elixir of Love' is sung in Italian. Deadline to sign up is Friday, March 1.
New Works Festival
UVA Drama’s New Works Festival treats audiences to a varied collection of short works, ranging from drama to farce, that explore everything from workplace woes to matters of the heart.
Virginia Theatre Festival to Celebrate 50th Anniversary Year
The Virginia Theatre Festival Season to Kick Off With 50 Years and Counting: a Musical Revue, Directed by Longtime Artistic Director Robert Chapel Followed by All-time Classic Musical Little Shop of Horrors and Frenetic, Farcical Take on Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps.
A Walk Through Grounds Brought Her to Acting. Now, She’s a Christmas Movie Star
It’s only fitting Jen Lilley’s University of Virginia story includes the type of fairy tale elements that are now staples of her movies.
Future Performing Arts Center To Be Named for Generous Benefactors
A future performing arts center at the University of Virginia will be named for Tessa and Richard Ader, a pair of philanthropists who previously donated $50 million to the University as part of a commitment to bolster music, dance and theater in Charlottesville and Central Virginia.
Rocky Horror at UVA brings "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to Newcomb Theatre
The student-run cast of Rocky Horror at U.Va. screened “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” in Newcomb Hall Theater Friday evening, a semesterly tradition drawing an enthusiastic audience of die-hard “Rocky” fans and new viewers alike. Bubbles blew, toilet paper flew and cast members shed a layer or two as the 1975 cult-classic played behind a live shadow cast reenactment.
Spectrum Theatre’s fantastic “Fun Home”
Spectrum Theatre staged the first of four performances of “Fun Home” Oct. 19, bringing the moving musical to an audience of friends, family members and fellow University students in the Student Activities Building.
Austen Arrives for the Holidays: 'Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley' at Live Arts
MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY continues Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice two years after the novel ends, now with bookish, middle-sister Mary as our heroine. As the Bennet sisters Mary, Jane, and Lydia gather at Lizzy’s estate for Christmas, an unexpected gentleman arrives. Has Mary met her intellectual match, and perhaps found true love? MISS BENNET is a romantic holiday comedy sure to delight Janeites and newcomers alike!