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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Once upon a time in a town far, far, far. . . . Were you thinking Farmville? Why, yes, it is Farmville and since it’s December, it’s time for Waterworks Players’ much anticipated annual pantomime. While common in Great Britain, pantomimes, or pantos as the Brits say, are not as familiar here in the U.S. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Winner of the 1987 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score, the long-running smash musical Les Misérables opens in Farmville on Friday as the Waterworks Players stage Victor Hugo’s sweeping story of insurrection, redemption, pain, and love. Set in mid nineteenth-century France, the tale recounts the journey of Jean Valjean, who, having […]