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2013
Treasure Island Review
You won’t need an X to spot the treasure that is the latest Waterworks Players pantomime! With Mary Jo Stockton (Director) and Don Blaheta (Production Manager) at the helm, the cast and crew of Treasure Island present an entertaining twist on the classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson. Prince Edward and Farmville residents will take […]
2013
Waterworks Players to Present Treasure Island
Waterworks Players proudly presents the pantomime Treasure Island 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 […]
2013
Auditions for Treasure Island at the Waterworks Players
The Waterworks Players next production is Treasure Island, a British pantomime to celebrate the holiday season. Beloved by children and adults alike, pantomimes are as much a part of the holiday season throughout the British Isles as singing carols, trimming the tree, and exchanging presents. As a popular form of theater, British pantomime combines song, dance, […]
2013
Review – 9 to 5: The Musical
“Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come to life.” If you were of movie-going age in 1980 the lyrics of the title song “9 to 5” instantly take you back thirty-three years. “9 to 5” is a revenge fantasy […]
2013
Waterworks Players Announces Cast for 9 to 5: The Musical
Waterworks Players is pleased to open this year’s season with 9 to 5: The Musical, a hilarious story of an overworked office manager, a jilted wife, and an objectified secretary. Together, these three unlikely friends conspire to depose their egotistical boss and begin making woman-friendly changes in the workplace. Billed as a “hilarious story of […]
2013
Auditions Set for Nine to Five
The Waterworks Players next production is Nine to Five: the Musical. Based on the popular movie of the same name, the musical opened on Broadway in 2003 and received 15 Drama Desk Award nominations, the most ever for a production in a year, as well as 4 Tony Award nominations and one Grammy. Billed as […]
2013
Go Barefoot in the Park with the Waterworks Players
Take a break from the summer heat as the Waterworks Players invite you to join them for a few wintry days in a tiny New York apartment as they perform Neil Simon’s Barefoot In the Park. This classic romantic comedy premiered in 1963 and became Simon’s longest-running hit and one of the longest running plays […]
2013
New Director Meets Newlyweds: What could Go Wrong?
“Men are from Mars, women are from Venus” has become synonymous with miscommunication between couples—and the all-encompassing and often riotous havoc that shortly ensues. Particularly in newlyweds. In the case of Broadway hit “Barefoot in the Park,” it leads to an intoxicated husband skipping wildly in the freezing cold through a neighborhood park in his […]
2013
Auditions Set for Barefoot In the Park
Waterworks Players next production is Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park, one of Broadway’s most enduring and successful romantic comedies. Jordan Whiley will direct this timeless “laugh out loud” comedy, in which Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds who are realizing the honeymoon is over. He is a serious young lawyer and she is a free-spirited […]
2013
When Love and Art Collide: A Review of Sunday in the Park with George
“Art ain’t easy—even if you’re smart,” laments the frustrated title character toward the end of the Waterworks Players’ terrific new production of Sunday in the Park with George, a story that explores the labors of love and art, creativity and connection. It is inspired by Georges Seurat’s famous pointillist painting, “Sunday Afternoon on the Island […]
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.
