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2026
Troy Halliday Earns Eagle Scout Award After Waterworks Service Project
August 8, 2026 a few members of the Waterworks Players Board attended the Eagle Scout ceremony for Troy Lee Halliday. Troy did his Eagle Scout project serving Waterworks by building a railing for the upstairs loft, pouring a new concrete pad for the new rear door, and led fellow scouts cleaning the patron seats and […]
Review: Waterworks Features Steve Martin Play
Farmville’s Waterworks Players take on Steve Martin’s comedically surreal play Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Yes, THAT Steve Martin, the stand-up comic and actor in The Jerk, in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and in Father of the Bride. Most recently, Martin is co-creator and co-star in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. The setting is a […]
Puffs; Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic! Auditions & Character Breakdown
Auditions for Puffs; Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic! are August 2nd and 3rd, 2026, from 6 PM – 8 PM at the Waterworks Players Theatre. Auditions will consist of reading selections from the script. If you are unable to attend one of the auditions, email [email protected] to […]
2026
Waterworks Players and Robert Russa Moton Museum collaborate on a VA250 project to develop a play on Farmville’s history; Staged readings will be held July 3rd and 4th 2026
Children of Courage is the working title of the first draft of a play focusing on the actions and ramifications of the 1951 Moton Student Strike in Prince Edward County, Virginia. The Robert Russa Moton Museum in association with Waterworks Players Community Theatre have commissioned playwright Harrison David Rivers to create the work. While the […]
Waterworks presents ‘Alice by Heart’
Photos by Alec Hosterman Read more at: https://farmvilleherald.com/2026/03/waterworks-presents-alice-by-heart/ “What’s the point of turning the key if you don’t go through the door,” asks the Cheshire Cat (Maya Hoffman) to Alice Spencer (Kolby Logue). I hope you go through the door of Waterworks Theatre this March and down the (rabbit) hole with the cast of their […]
Auditions for Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin
Sunday April 19, 2026 at 7:30pm Monday April 20, 2026 at 7:30pm Characters Freddy – the owner and bartender of the Lapin Agile Gaston – an older man Germaine – waitress and Freddy’s girlfriend Albert Einstein – twenty-five Suzanne – nineteen Sagot – Picasso’s art dealer Pablo Picasso – twenty-three Charles Dabernow Schmendiman – a […]
2025
Waterworks delivers a happy ending with this year’s seasonal panto
Hear ye, hear ye! Kingdom of Farmvillia, get thee to this year’s panto at Waterworks Players. Sponsored by A Great Escape Spalon, this season’s fan-favorite British-style pantomime play is an adaptation of Jack Shaw’s “Jack and Jill: The Troll’s Story” — a comedic blending of the classic Jack and Jill children’s story with some added […]
2025
Auditions for Alice by Heart
Auditions will be held at Waterworks Players on Monday, November 3rd and Tuesday, November 4th at 7:00pm.
2025
Broken Hosannas
What’s the first project you’d take on after retirement? If you’re Marcus Pendergrass, you
compose music for a world-renowned play. Pendergrass, who retired from Hampden-Sydney
College after 20 years of teaching math and computer science, has created a musical score for
The Crucible, the Waterworks Players’ first production of its new season.
Auditions for Jack and Jill
Auditions are: Saturday, September 13th; Sunday, September 14th; both nights at 7pm
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.
