The Waterworks Players next production is Beauty and the Beast, a British pantomime to celebrate the holiday season. Beloved by children and adults alike, pantomimes are as much a part of Christmas throughout the British Isles as singing carols, trimming the tree, and exchanging presents. As a popular form of theater, pantomime combines song, dance, […]
An empty Broadway stage is the setting for Waterworks Players’ next play that opens on October 16th, a haunting production of D. D. Brooke’s Rehearsal for Murder, based upon the television play of the same name by Richard Levinson and William Link. Alex Dennison, a playwright, has gathered together in a theatre, the actors, producer, […]
Before it hit the screen, it hit the stage, and now Les Misérables is coming to Farmville’s Waterworks Players. Set in 19th-century France, “the world’s longest-running musical” follows the ex-convict Jean Valjean in his journey to redemption and has been thrilling and inspiring its audiences—from London to Broadway—for thirty years. Critics have hailed it […]
Waterworks Players proudly presents the pantomime Treasure Island to celebrate the holiday season. Beloved by children and adults alike, pantomimes are as much a part of Christmas throughout the British Isles as singing carols, trimming the tree, and exchanging presents. As a popular form of theatre, “Pantomimes are melodramatic presentations of familiar nursery rhymes […]
Waterworks Players is pleased to open this year’s season with 9 to 5: The Musical, a hilarious story of an overworked office manager, a jilted wife, and an objectified secretary. Together, these three unlikely friends conspire to depose their egotistical boss and begin making woman-friendly changes in the workplace. Billed as a “hilarious story of […]
The Waterworks Players next production is Nine to Five: the Musical. Based on the popular movie of the same name, the musical opened on Broadway in 2003 and received 15 Drama Desk Award nominations, the most ever for a production in a year, as well as 4 Tony Award nominations and one Grammy. Billed as […]
The Waterworks Players spring show is Sunday In the Park With George, the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s soaring musical about a painter’s struggle between creating art and living life. A complex work revolving around the fictionalized French pointillist painter Georges Seurat, Sunday In the Park With George was the critically acclaimed winner of the 1984 New York Drama […]
An evil queen, who is actually a witch, constantly asks a magic mirror who is the fairest in all the land. Fearing that her beauty is being eclipsed, the queen orders her huntsman to take the rival Snow White into the woods to be killed. Rather than harm her, the huntsman tells Snow White to […]
Audiences are in for a musical treat when Rent opens this Friday at Waterworks Players in Farmville. The playhouse has been transformed to the gritty feel of New York’s lower east side for Jonathan Larson’s rock opera that documents a year in the lives of struggling artists, AIDS suffers, and homeless people trying to survive […]