“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 […]

What do you get when you combine a fairy tale, clever contemporary jokes, unexpected dance numbers, an audience who is part of the performance and a rampaging elephant? The answer is an old fashioned British-style pantomime right here in Farmville. Waterworks Players’ Rumplestiltskin is a delightfully quirky and entertaining show that is a must-see for […]

Starting this Friday and Saturday, March 11 and 12, the Waterworks Players present Tina Howe’s play Painting Churches, a theatre experience you do not want to miss. In this comedy-drama, Howe skillfully weaves a tale we can all relate to: the story of a family facing the inevitable challenges and changes brought on by aging. […]

An evil queen, who is actually a witch, constantly asks a magic mirror who is the fairest in all the land. Fearing that her beauty is being eclipsed, the queen orders her huntsman to take the rival Snow White into the woods to be killed. Rather than harm her, the huntsman tells Snow White to […]

After the success of the Waterworks Players recent production of RENT, they had to begin “from scratch” (as every new production must) with auditions for their next show, The Kitchen Witches, an award-winning comedy by Canadian playwright, Caroline Smith.  Director, Dudley Sauve, could be mistaken for a chef since he chose the perfect “ingredients” (cast […]

Audiences are in for a musical treat when Rent opens this Friday at Waterworks Players in Farmville.  The playhouse has been transformed to the gritty feel of New York’s lower east side for Jonathan Larson’s rock opera that documents a year in the lives of struggling artists, AIDS suffers, and homeless people trying to survive […]

Brigadoon, the 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical, is a romantic tale set in the highlands of Scotland with only one day to find love. Inspired by Friedrich Gerstacker’s 19th-century tale Germelshausen, Brigadoon tells the story of two game-hunting Americans who stumble upon a Scottish village that disappears in the Highland mist and returns for only […]

A prince in search of true love, a wicked stepmother who pits her equally selfish daughters against the kind-hearted Cinderella, a fairy godmother, a pumpkin coach, a lost glass slipper.  You know the story, right? Come to the Waterworks Players’ third Christmas pantomime for a delightfully different take on Charles Perrault’s classic fairy tale, Cinderella. […]

Audiences are in for both an intellectual and artistic treat when attending the Waterworks Players’ production of David Auburn’s hit show Proof. An experienced, talented cast brings to life a smart, tightly-written drama with some surprising twists and turns. The play itself focuses on the reclusive daughter of a recently-deceased brilliant mathematician. Dealing with Robert’s […]

Set in rural Georgia and complete with live music, The Greatest Story Ever Retold – Cotton Patch Gospel, music and lyrics by Harry Chapin, promises to delight audiences of all ages. Waterworks brings this toe-tapping full-length musical to the Heartland this weekend, September 21 and 22, and next weekend, September 28 and 29, at the […]