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2017
Waterworks Players to Hold Auditions for Shrek: The Musical
“Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek…” And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue. Throw in over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you’ve got the kind of mess […]
2017
Auditions for And Then There Were None
The Waterworks Players is holding auditions on May 7th and 8th for its August production of And Then There Were None. Written by Agatha Christie originally as a novel, And Then There Were None is a celebrated murder-mystery thriller that has sold over 100 million copies globally, made into numerous film adaptations, and produced as […]
2017
All Aboard for the Last Train to Nibroc at Waterworks Players
It is December 1940 and two young strangers meet on an east-bound cross-country train. May, who plans to be a missionary, shares a crowded seat with Raleigh, a medically discharged flyer with dreams of becoming a writer. Far from home, they are both surprised to learn they grew up close to each other in neighboring […]
2017
Auditions Set for Legally Blonde
The Waterworks Players next production is Legally Blonde: the Musical. The show opened on Broadway in 2007, receiving 7 Tony and 10 Drama Desk Award nominations. In London the production was nominated for 5 Olivier Awards, winning three, including Best New Musical. Based on Amanda Brown’s novel that was made into a move of the […]
2016
NEW Auditions for Fuddy Meers
The Waterworks Players is holding auditions on July 10th for its August production of Fuddy Meers. Written by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, Fuddy Meers was nominated for the 2000 Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwriting Award and has been produce over 200 times throughout the United States. Lacy Klinger, in her Waterworks Players debut, will direct […]
2016
Auditions for Fuddy Meers
The Waterworks Players is holding auditions on May 8th for its June production of Fuddy Meers. Written by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, Fuddy Meers was nominated for the 2000 Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwriting Award and has been produce over 200 times throughout the United States. Lacy Klinger, in her Waterworks Players debut, will direct […]
2016
Into The Woods Review
Once upon a time, a Baker and his Wife were having a very, very bad day- they hadn’t a bun in the oven, in more ways than one. But what else should they expect when they live in a land of fairy tales and their next door neighbor is a witch? Promised a child in […]
2016
Reunion x Two
Into the Woods, the Waterworks Players’ next show opening on April 1st, is not only a reprise (Waterworks first staged this musical 23 years ago, in the spring of 1993), but a reunion as well: two members of the original cast, Dave Culler and Martha Womack, are appearing in this upcoming production. Though 1991’s Big […]
2016
Strong cast delivers outstanding performance
Waterworks Players have done it again. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is yet another successful production in a now long line-up of shows that are delivering first-class community theater to Farmville. Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (1962) opened on Broadway in October of 1962 and won several top awards including a Tony Award […]
2016
Waterworks Announces Cast for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Area actors Craig Challender and Leigh Lunsford will join Richmond artists Happy Mahaney and Hunter Parker in the next Waterworks production of Edward Albee’s iconic work “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” “This play,” states Director Dudley Sauve, “is a challenge to stage not because the original Broadway production won both the 1963 Tony Award and the […]
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This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
