Waterworks Players
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2016
Bifocals Theatre Project returns to the Waterworks Players Jan 29th
The Bifocals Theatre Project of the CAT Theatre in Richmond return to Farmville and the Waterworks Players January 29th with Luau at Acorn Acres by Richmond playwright Margie Langston. Friday’s production will be the third time that Richmond’s Bifocal Players have graced the Waterworks Stage. In Luau at Acorn Acres, retirement facility Acorn Acres is running into […]
2015
Auditions Set for Who Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Waterworks Players next production is Who Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee’s iconic work that defined the genre of the psychological drama. The original Broadway production won both the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1962–63 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. Set in the 1950s, the play […]
2015
Waterworks Players to Present For the Love….
Waterworks Players is very pleased to present For the Love…, a reading of comic vignettes on Saturday, November 21 at 8 pm. This is the third time Waterworks has presented mini plays penned by Brett Hursey, a Longwood professor who teaches creative writing. “Each time, he wows the audiences with characters who find themselves in […]
2015
Auditions Set for May the Farce Be With You
The Waterworks Players next production is May the Farce Be With You, 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 […]
2015
Review of “Rehearsal for Murder” by Wade Edwards
Rehearsal for Murder, an inventive, droll whodunit presented by the Waterworks Players, opens in Farmville on Friday, October 16 at 8:00 p.m. at the Waterworks Theatre and continues through next weekend. First produced as a 1982 CBS movie starring Robert Preston and Lynn Redgrave, the production is based on the teleplay by Richard Levinson and […]
2015
Auditions Set for Rehearsal for Murder
The Waterworks Players next production is Rehearsal for Murder. Adapted to the stage by D.D. Brooke, Rehearsal for Murder was originally a television play by Richard Levinson and William Link. This is a thrilling “theatrical” mystery in which the play house becomes the set for the production. When Monica is found dead from an apparent […]
2015
Waterworks Players and Benchmark Community Bank produce the hit Broadway musical Les Misérables
Waterworks Players and Benchmark Community Bank have joined forces to produce the hit Broadway musical Les Misérables, opening this weekend at the Waterworks Theater in Farmville. Dudley Sauve, Director of Les Misérables, joins Teresa Stewart, Vice President and South Main Street Branch Manager, and Cheryl Gee, Assistant Vice President and East Third Street Branch Manager […]
2015
Auditions for Local Playwright Readers’ Theatre
The Waterworks Players announces auditions for the February production this Sunday and Monday, January 11 and 12 at 7:30 at the theater. The production will consist of two unpublished plays by two local playwrights, performed in Readers’ Theatre style, i.e. scripts will be used, and the audience will be encouraged to imagine the various locales […]
2014
Waterworks Players to Present Cinderella
Waterworks Players proudly presents the pantomime Cinderella 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 or children’s […]
2014
Auditions Set for Cinderella
The Waterworks Players next production is Cinderella, 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, and slapstick comedy […]
This project is supported, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
