The Virginia Theatre Festival will open its 2022 season with Kate Hamill’s fresh and innovative adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The production, directed by Aubrey Snowden, will open on July 15 in the Ruth Caplin Theatre.
The Virginia Theatre Festival – formerly known as the Heritage Theatre Festival – will literally and figuratively reopen its doors to the University of Virginia and local community with a season that includes a new adaptation of “Little Women,” along with “No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone,” an acclaimed one-woman show about the legendary singer and civil rights activist.
June 20, 2022 – Live Arts Theater’s 2022 teen summer musical is the magical gem INTO THE WOODS, with music and lyrics by the incomparable Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The show is directed by Jessica Harris with music direction by Xavier Taylor and Austin Robey. INTO THE WOODS will have 12 performances, July 15 through July 31, 2022, at Live Arts Theater, 123 E. Water Street, in Charlottesville.
Live Arts Theater’s 2021/22 reIGNITE Season closes with Dario Fo’s hilarious political farce ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST in a translation by Jon Laskin and Michael Aquilante, directed by Live Arts Artistic Director Susan E. Evans.
UVA Drama to Present Mary Elizabeth Hamilton’s '16 Winters, or the Bear’s Tale'. High-spirited Play with Music Imagines the 16 Years Between Acts of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Offers Springboard for Timely Issues Like Long-Term Isolation.
Drama Auditions: April 20-24 for Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill, based on the novel by Jane Austen, directed by Marianne Kubik - opens October 20 in the Ruth Caplin Theatre.
Many of UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences alumni with degrees in studio arts, drama or music go on to successful careers in arts and entertainment, in the world’s great museums or educating the next generation of creative minds. However, the number of arts majors who become leaders in business, law, technology and other areas suggests that the skills they learned in the studio and on the stage are helping them thrive in a wide range of pursuits.
Heritage Theatre Festival Returns With a New Name and Exciting Season Including Kate Hamill’s Adaptation of Little Women; No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone, a Powerful One-woman Show Highlighting the Life and Art of One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Artists; And a Staged Reading
UVA Arts Webinar: Transforming the Arts in Charlottesville | April 18, 2022 @ 1pm ET.
The 2021/22 reIGNITE Live Arts Season continues with Lucy Kirkwood’s provocative and chilling eco-thriller THE CHILDREN, opening April 15th.
The Force is strong with Ryan Kurtiak. The second-year University of Virginia School of Law student, who previously worked at Walt Disney World as a “Star Wars” villager and grew up wanting to design theme parks, saw law school as a way to channel his creative energy.
"Lip-sync or swim, baby!" Outrageous and campy, sweet yet spicy, THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA McBRIDE is a heartfelt valentine to drag queens, a celebration of divas and difference.
