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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
Auditions for Into the Woods
The Waterworks Players’ next production is Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1987 musical bringing together many beloved fairy tales and deconstructing the notion of “happily ever after”. The original Broadway production won Tony Awards for Best Score, Best Book, and Best Actress in a Musical. All roles are open, including roles for […]
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 […]
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
“May The Farce Be With You” Review
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. […]
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
Waterworks Players Announces Cast for Rehearsal for Murder
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, […]
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This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
