Upcoming Events Events

K Dance- Shorts

https://www.kdance.org

December 8th & December 9th, 2023

Four monologues and short plays explore themes of auditioning, waiting to go onstage, and how to be a good audience member.

Performers: Andrew Etheredge, Khadijah Franks, Gina Maria McKenzie, Melanie Richards, and choreographer Kaye Weinstein Gary.

This December, River City Poets are back at Firehouse for an evening of inspiration and camaraderie! We'll kick off the night with time to grab a drink at the bar & reconnect with fellow poet-peeps, then get the poetry rolling with feature performances by some folks you may know, ending the night with an open mic opportunity under the bright lights of Firehouse's center stage. Open mic signup is onsite starting at 5:45pm. 

We're cheering for the villains! We all love bad witches, bad bitches, enticing evildoers, sinners, and scoundrels! They pretty much always have the better costumes, more interesting personalities, and the most captivating backstories compared to the heroes. So give in to your dark side and let's get wicked! Celebrate the villains with this enchantingly evil cast!
 

Burlesque Right Meow productions are committed to being fun, safe, and inclusive events that showcase the art of burlesque and variety. There will be zero tolerance for harassment, bullying, and bigotry of any kind. These productions are feminist, body-positive spaces that celebrate people of all different body types and identities. Please be on board with this mission if you are attending this event.

Join us in the Golden Age of Radio!

 Turn back the clock to when network radio brought comedy, music, mystery, and drama to listeners all over the country. The Radio Players present a new slant on “old time radio,” with microphones at the ready and tongues firmly in cheek.

1 Musician.  2 Actors.  10 Puppets. 

Charles Dickens’s classic tale of redemption. Watch as Ebenezer Scrooge confronts ghosts and visions from his past, present and future and marvel as the performers transform themselves into multiple characters of all ages, genders and ghostly varieties, exploring a full range of emotions that transport the audience from hope, to laughter, to pity, to shock, to love, to despair, and to hope again! 

Stephen Rudlin, local vocal coach and music director, returns to the cabaret stage at the Firehouse Theatre in his one-man show, featuring special guest stars! With songs from Sunset Boulevard, Company, Nine, The Prom, and much more, you won't want to miss this personal evening of show business, love lost, and tremendous music.

Memories of Overdevelopment (World Premiere)

by Caridad Svich

Directed by Nathaniel Shaw

Some plays are a quiet revolution about loud things. Some plays are about the stories we carry in our bones. Inspired by true stories, Memories of Overdevelopment is a documentary sharing what people remember about dictatorships where they grew up, how they survived, and why they left. 

Yes And Theatrical Co.

https://www.yesandrva.org

Dr Ride’s American Beach House 

by Liza Birkenmeier 

March 15th through March 24th, 2024

It’s 1983, the evening before Dr. Sally Ride’s historic space flight. Hundreds of miles from the launch, a group of women with passionate opinions and no opportunities sit on a sweltering St. Louis rooftop watching life pass them by. Their uncharted desires bump up against American norms of sex and power in this intimate snapshot of queer anti-heroines.

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Roman à clef (World Premiere)

Written by Chandler Hubbard (RVA Playwright)

Directed by Sharon Ott

Dramaturgy by Naysan Mojgani

All plays are about family. Even when they're not. Especially when they're not. From the mind of innovative local playwright Jack Coburn comes Apple, Tree; Far From, Not, a new work about family, faith, and fear.

BURIED CHILD

By Sam Shepard

The Carol Piersol Legacy Production

A macabre look at an American Midwestern family with a dark, terrible secret.