Virginia Repertory Theatre
In 2012, after over a decade of sharing one staff, Barksdale Theatre and Theatre IV merged to form Virginia Rep. Prior to that, productions were produced under our previous names.
Dark most of the season due to Covid
Co-produced by Virginia Rep in Partnership with Cadence Theatre
Co-produced by Virginia Rep and Cadence Theatre
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2000 - 2009 | 1990 - 1999 | 1980 - 1989 | 1970 - 1979 | 1960 - 1969 | 1953 - 1959
*Indicates a World Premiere
Lend Me a Tenor - By Ken Ludwig My Fair Lady - Music by Frederick Loewe; Lyrics and Book by Alan Jay Lerner God of Carnage - By Yasmina Reza Scorched Earth* - By David L. Robbins Spring Awakening - Book & Lyrics by Steven Sater; Music by Duncan Sheik
Co-produced by Virginia Rep and Cadence Theatre Kimberly Akimbo - By David Lindsay-Abaire August: Osage County - By Tracy Letts In the Next Room or the vibrator play - By Sarah Ruhl
A Thousand Clowns - By Herb Gardner Boeing, Boeing - By Marc Camoletti; Adapted by Beverley Cross Becky's New Car - By Steven Dietz Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas* - Musical Arrangements by H. Drew Perkins Always...Patsy Cline - Written and originally directed by Ted Swindley Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music
Shipwrecked: An Entertainment - by Donald Margulies Irving Berlin’s White Christmas - Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin; Book by David Ives & Paul Blake Legacy of Light - By Karen Zacarias Circle Mirror Transformation Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Music & Lyrics by David Yazbek; Book by Jeffrey Lane
First Baptist of Ivy Gap - by Ron Osborne Butterflies are Free - by Leonard Gershe On Golden Pond - by Ernest Thompson Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming - Written by Connie Ray; Conceived by Alan Bailey; Musical Arrangements by Mike Craver Nunsense - Book, Music and Lyrics Dan Goggin
Boleros for the Disenchanted - by José Rivera The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Music and lyrics by William Finn; Book by Rachel Sheinkin The Grapes of Wrath - Co-produced with Theatre VCU / Part of the Acts of Faith Festival; By Frank Galati Is He Dead? - by Mark Twain; Adapted by David Ives The Sound of Music - Co-produced with Theatre IV; Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
Co-produced with African American Repertory Theatre Crowns Black Nativity
Mona's Arrangements* - Book by Bo Wilson, Music by Steve Liebman, Lyrics by Steve Liebman and Bo Wilson I Ought to Be in Pictures -by Neil Simon Fully Committed - by Becky Mode Souvenir - by Stephen Temperley Bus Stop - by William Inge
The Clean House - by Sarah Ruhl This Wonderful Life - by Steve Murray, Conceived by Mark Setlock Children of a Lesser God - by Mark Medoff Well - by Lisa Kron Thoroughly Modern Millie - Book by Richard Henry Morris; Music by Jeanine Tesori; New Lyrics by Dick Scanlan
Driving Miss Daisy at Willow Lawn Bootleg Shakespeare - Romeo & Juliet - Henley St Theatre in association with Barksdale Theatre
Greater Tuna - by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard Shirley Valentine - by Willy Russell Driving Miss Daisy - by Alfred Uhry Sanders Family Christmas - Book by Connie Ray; Conceived by Alan Bailey; Musical Arrangements by John Foley and Gary Fagin
The Member of the Wedding - by Carson McCullers Moonlight and Magnolias - by Ron Hutchinson Doubt - by John Patrick Shanley The Little Dog Laughed - by Douglas Carter Beane Guys and Dolls - by Frank Loesser
Smoke on the Mountain - by Constance Ray The Odd Couple - by Neil Simon Deathtrap - by Ira Levin Swingtime Canteen - by Linda Thorsen Bond, William Repicci and Charles Busch
The Constant Wife - by Somerset Maugham Mame - Book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman Brooklyn Boy - by Donald Margulies Intimate Apparel - by Lynn Nottage Into the Woods - Book by James Lapine, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
The Mousetrap - by Agatha Christie Over the River and Through the Woods - by Joe DiPietro Smoke on the Mountain - by Alan Bailey and Constance Ray The Odd Couple - by Neil Simon
The Drawer Boy - by Michael Healey Scapino! - Adapted by Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale The Lark - by Jean Anouilh; Adapted by Lillian Hellman The Syringa Tree - by Pamela Gein The Full Monty - book by Terrance McNally; Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek
Barefoot in the Park - by Neil simon No Sex Please, We're British - by Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot
Cyrano de Bergerac - by Edmond Rostand Where's Charley? - Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser; Book by George Abbott; Based on the play Charley's Aunt written in 1898 by Brandon Thomas The Man Who Came to Dinner - by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman Crowns - by Regina Taylor Melissa Arctic - by Craig Wright Anything Goes- Music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
To Kill a Mockingbird - Adapted by Christopher Sergel James Joyce's The Dead - Book by Richard Nelson, Music by Shaun Davey Light Up the Sky - by Moss Hart Fifth of July - by Lanford Wilson
The Crucible - by Arthur Miller Proof - By David Auburn The 1940's Radio Hour - by Walton Jones The Laramie Project - by Moises Kaufman The Cocktail Hour - by A.R. Gurney Songs from Bedlam - by Douglas Jones* Picasso's Women - by Melanie Richards and Kay Weinstein Gary* Annie Get Your Gun - by Irving Berlin and Herbert &Dorothy Fields
Fully Committed - By Becky Mode The Little Foxes - By Lillian Hellman Italian American Reconciliation - By John Patrick Shanley> War Story - By Bo Wilson * Collected Stories - by Donald Margulies The Exact Center of the Universe - By Joan Vail Thorne Olympus on My Mind - Book and Lyrics by Barry Harman, Music by Grant Sturiale
Misfits * Coming of the Hurricane The Taming of the Shrew They're Playing Our Song
The Queen of Bingo Side Man Full Gallop Sweet Charity Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Carousel
The Old Settler Three Tall Women Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Golf With Alan Shepard (Directed by and starring Pete Kilgore) Violet Ella and Her Fella, Frank *
From the Mississippi Delta The Young Man From Atlanta The Rocky Horror Show Inherit The Wind She Loves Me The Sisters Rosensweig
The House of Blue Leaves The Complete Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) Molly Sweeney Blues in the Night Love! Valour! Compassion! The Woman in Black Red, Hot and Cole
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe The Trip to Bountiful Oil City Symphony Das Barbecu The Taffetas
Born Yesterday The Glass Menagerie Weird Romance Prelude to a Kiss Nunsense (starring Pat Carroll) Once on this Island
Our Town Falsettos Love Letters A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine Zelda, the Last Flapper Talley's Folly The Turn of the Screw * The World Goes 'Round
Our 40th Year Gala Death of a Salesman By Strouse Oh, Dad, Poor Dad... Bojangles * The Voice of the Turtle Godspell
Tender Lies American Beauty The Road to Mecca Lucky Stiff Twelfth Night Social Security
Home Games The Loves of Cass McGuire (starring Pat Carroll) The Lady's Not for Burning Oil City Symphony The Zulu and the Zayda Oh! Coward!
Nunsense (starring Pat Carroll) Land of Fire The Cocktail Hour Earnest in Love On the Verge Stepping Out
Wenceslas Square Nunsense (starring Pat Carroll) One West Main * The Mikado You Never Can Tell The Nerd
Nunsense (starring Pat Carroll) Artichoke Hot Grog Painting Churches A Child's Christmas in Wales
Tallulah - A Memory (Starring Eugenia Rawls) Vanities The Amorous Flea The Butterfingers Angel etc. etc.
Morning's at Seven The Circle Brighton Beach Memoirs Taking My Turn
Present Laughter FoxFire Talking With...(Co-produced with Actors Studio) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Here's a How-De-Do
George Washington Slept Here A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking Patience What the Butler Saw The Middle Ages
Much Ado About Nothing The Elephant Man The Pirates of Penzance Gertrude Stein III (starring Pat Carroll) Sweeney Todd
Da Any Number Can Die H.M.S. Pinafore Bad Day at Black Rock * Blithe Spirit
A Life in the Theatre Light Up the Sky Murder at the Howard Johnson's The Mikado Chapter Two The 1940's Radio Hour
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Good Doctor The Man Who Came to Dinner Old Wives' Tale * The Importance of Being Earnest
The River Niger Equus The Little Hut Red, Hot and Cole * Man of La Mancha Diamond Studs
Mark Twain Visit to a Small Planet Red, Hot and Cole * The Royal Family
Ladies in Retirement UTBU My Fat Friend I Never Sang For My Father Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead How the Other Half Loves You Can't Take It With You
That Championship Season Godspell Catch Me If You Can Ah! Wilderness
The Front Page Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? Dames at Sea You Can't Take It With You Long Day's Journey Into Night A Flea in Her Ear
To Be Young, Gifted and Black The Odd Couple Dracula Three Bags Full The Patriots Barefoot in the Park
Goodbye Charlie Never Too Late Butterflies are Free George Washington Slept Here Gypsy
The Boys in the Band Three Men on a Horse Plaza Suite The Sound of Music Old Wives' Tale * You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
The Hostage Tons of Money Man of La Mancha Money I Do! I Do!
The Lion in Winter Philadelphia Annie Get Your Gun Here I Come! The Fantasticks Cactus Flower The Absence of a Cello Annie Get Your Gun
Generation Theatre Wagon (Original Comedy, Guest Company) 100 and Some (100th production) Rattle of a Simple Man Oliver! The Impossible Years Irma La Douce
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? My Three Angels The Night of the Iguana The Champagne Complex Barefoot in the Park
Never Too Late Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Little Mary Sunshine The Typists and the Tiger Boeing-Boeing Any Wednesday Stop the World-I Want to Get Off Any Wednesday
Sunday in New York Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad Take Her, She's Mine Come Back, Little Sheba Lullaby O'Mistress Mine Tunnel of Love Marriage-Go-round Never Too Late Mary, Mary
The Moon is Blue Gideon Bell, Book and Candle The Little Hut The Boy Friend
Critic's Choice Twelve Angry Men The Curious Savage Janus The Fantasticks A Shot in the Dark
The Solid Gold Cadillac Leave it to Jane J.B. Fallen Angels Once Upon a Mattress
Drink to Me Only The Rose Tattoo Two for the See-Saw John Brown's Body Born Yesterday Mister Roberts
The Crucible Romanoff and Juliet Venus Observed A Streetcar Named Desire Clutterbuck Private Lives Picnic Abie's Irish Rose
O'Mistress Mine Kind Lady For Love or Money The Crucible Duet for Two Hands Clutterbuck The Little Hut Where's Charley?
The Little Hut Time of the Cuckoo Bus Stop Voice of the Turtle O'Mistress Mine The Matchmaker The Fourposter Laura Arsenic and Old Lace
The Little Hut Portrait in Black White Sheep in the Family The Lady's Not for Burning To Rise One Day * (co-produced with the Hanover County Jamestown Festival Committee) Dirty Work at the Crossroads Amphitryon 38 Dangerous Corner The Moon is Blue
Ladies in Retirement Without Love Antigone The Rainmaker Our Town Bell, Book and Candle Biography Don Juan in Hell Present Laughter Silas the Chore Boy
High Tea * Antigone Hay Fever Tons of Money No Time for Comedy Gold in the Hills
Gold in the Hills
One-Acts and Readings for Private Groups
(Partial Listing: Does not include touring productions)
The Little Red Hen A Year with Frog and Toad The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales Seussical
The Ugly Duckling A Christmas Carol The Song of Mulan Buffalo Soldier Jack and the Beanstalk The Sound of Music co-produced with Barksdale Theatre
Ferdinand the Bull The Velveteen Rabbit The BFG Honk!
The Humpbacked Horse presented by the Saratov Youth Theatre The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Sideways Stories from Wayside School Annie
Stuart Little A Christmas Story Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter Peter Pan
Theatre Gym/Helping Hands: The Dumb Waiter
The True Story of Pocahontas ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Lyle, Lyle Crocodile The Wizard of Oz
God’s Trombones
Bunnicula You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown The Magic Flute Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Daughters of Zion
Broadway for Families: The Jungle Book A Christmas Carol Patchwork Seussical the Musical
(All Theatre Gym productions were canceled due to storm damage to the venue.)
Tuck Everlasting The Best Christmas Pageant Ever The Magic Mrs. Piggle- Wiggle Sing Down the Moon
Glen Allen: Hansel & Gretel Babes in Toyland Rapunzel The Ugly Duckling
Theatre Gym: Lobby Hero The Syringa Tree Topdog/Underdog Our Lady of 121st St Jesus Hopped the A-Train
Charlotte’s Web The Gifts of Christmas Huck and Tom and the Mighty Mississippi The Song of Mulan
Glen Allen: Santa’s Toyland Adventure Lyle Lyle Crocodile
Helping Hands/Theatre Gym: Boom Town
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day A Christmas Carol The Emperor’s Nightingale The Secret Garden Br’er Rabbit Honk!
Theatre Gym: Bash: Latterday Plays Cherry Docs April Morning
They’re Playing Our Song
Family Playhouse: The Sword in the Stone King Island Christmas Ramona Quimby Peter Pan
Glen Allen: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Snow White and the Seven Dwarves The Little Red Hen
Theatre Gym: The Cripple of Irishmaan
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Best Christmas Pageant Ever The Velveteen Rabbit Cole Porter’s Aladdin
Glen Allen: The Frog Prince Quilters The Arthur Ashe Story Scapino!
Theatre Gym: Jails, Hospitals, and Hip Hop
Blackbirds of Broadway
Family Playhouse: Pinocchio A Christmas Carol Treasure Island The Wizard of Oz
Helping Hands/Theatre Gym: Christmas on Mars subUrbia How I Learned to Drive Let’s Paint
The Hardy Boys in The Mystery of the Haunted House The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Lyle, Lyle Crocodile Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Theatre Gym: Fit to Be Tied The Twilight of the Golds Step Child Shadowlands The Dead Monkey
Beehive Having Our Say Revelation Family Playhouse: The Magic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Babes in Toyland The Prince and the Pauper Sleeping Beauty Theare Gym: Aspirin for the Masses Raised in Captivity A Devil Inside Listen Close Jack and Jill Italian American Reconciliation The Yellow Boat
Family Playhouse: The Magic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Babes in Toyland The Prince and the Pauper Sleeping Beauty
Theare Gym: Aspirin for the Masses Raised in Captivity A Devil Inside Listen Close Jack and Jill Italian American Reconciliation
Beehive Secret Service Wedding Band The Music Man
Family Playhouse: Charlie & the Chocolate Factory Santa’s Christmas Miracle Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Peter Pan
Helping Hands/Theatre Gym: Oleanna My Children! My Africa! Weeping Mary Rules of the Lake
Theatre Gym: Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
Of Mice and Men On Golden Pond Romeo & Juliet
Theatre Gym The Meeting Burn This Helping Hands Program: Keely & Du Who’s Happy Now Abundance
Family Playhouse The Jungle Book Twas the Night Before Christmas Thumbelina Charlotte’s Web
Young Tom Jefferson On Golden Pond The All Night Strut
Theatre Gym Stand Up Tragedy Da Marvin’s Room
Family Playhouse Johnny Appleseed Snowflake The Frog Prince The Wizard of Oz
Closer Than Ever
Theatre Gym Hamlet Shirley Valentine Crimes of the Heart
Family Playhouse Winnie the Pooh Snowflake The Reluctant Dragon Cinderella
In the Limelight Laurel and Hardy God’s Trombones Four Part Harmony Wait Until Dark Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune A Shayna Maidel The Rainmaker
Theatre Gym Life Under Water A Conversation with Georgia O’Keefe
Family Playhouse Three Little Pigs Babes in Toyland Jack and the Beanstalk Wind in the Willows
Quilters: the Revival
Family Playhouse James Madison & the Bill of Rights The Snow Queen Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Booker T The Wizard of Oz
Is There Life After High School Sherlock’s Last Case The Boys Next Door
Red Hot & Cole Benefactors Biloxi Blues Cinderella Extremities Olympus On My Mind Ain’t Misbehavin’
Helping Hands Program: Coyote Ugly Top Girls
Elisabeth Welch: Time to Start Living A Joyous Musical Six Characters in Search of an Author Isn’t It Romantic Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory The Normal Heart Where’s Charley? Cotton Patch Gospel
Scapino! Gemini And A Nightingale Sang Quilters
Equus Babes in Toyland To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday A Little Night Music New Play Festival: Bosoms and Neglect, Diviners, The Family
Do Lord Remember Me Children of a Lesser God I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road The Shadow Box PVCC Fine Arts Series: The Diary of Adam and Eve
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black Love in Two Acts Vanities Fifth of July
Cabaret Children of a Lesser God Huckleberry Finn I Ought to Be in Pictures Mr. Roberts
West Side Story Born Yesterday Ten Little Indians
A Raisin in the Sun The Diary of Anne Frank The Philadelphia Story
The various touring children's shows
As You Like It
The Glass Menagerie Where’s Charley?
Bifocals performances were produced at Willow Lawn in partnership with Virginia Rep from 2002 until the spring of 2015.
A Passing Fancy By Caitlin Patricia Kelly and Brianna Kimberly Morgan Directed by Jacqueline Jones Photo
No Deposit, No Return Written and directed by Jay Morehouse
He Can't Tell You By George Freek; directed by Cindy Yuoconis Photos by Fred Schneider and Cindy Yuoconis
Loathe at First Sight By local playwright, Pat Walker Photo
Olives on the Front Porch By local playwright, Janet Chenoweth Photo
Luau at Acorn Acres By local playwright, Margie Langston Photo
Thanks, Mitch By local playwright, Pat Walker Photo
I’m Herbert and Ladies of the Mop By Aurand Harris and Robert Anderson
Fourteen at Dinner By local playwright, Pat Walker Photo
A Thorn Between Two Roses By local playwright, Janet Chenoweth Photo
Fifty Years Ago By Murray Schisgal
The Day Joe Montana Retired By Mary Jane Walsh Photo
Arsenic and Old Lace - Radio Drama
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