Given the current pandemic of Covid-19 and the safety of our students, patrons, faculty, and staff, VCUarts Theatre has had to postpone all productions since April 2020. We will announce any updates as soon as we have them.
Our previously planned 2020-21 Season:
SPRING AWAKENING
An angsty pop rock musical about the trials and tribulations of teenage life, set in 18th century Germany.
Books and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Based on the play by Frank Wedekind
Directed by Kikau Alvaro
Musical Direction by Anthony Smith
SHE KILLS MONSTERS
High schooler Agnes Evans stumbles upon her late sisters Dungeons and Dragons notebook and falls headfirst into the fantasy.
by Qui Nguyen
Directed by Wes Seals
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH
In this family friendly musical, young James finds himself in the center of a gigantic peach among human-sized insects with equally oversized personalities. They manage to survive and create their own family.
music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
book by Timothy Allen McDonald
based on the children’s book by Roald Dahl
Directed by Happy Mahaney
Nights of Improv
VCU’s own Running Amok led by Elizabeth Byland
A Collaboration with VCUarts Music
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
BOOK & LYRICS BY LYNN AHRENS MUSIC BY STEPHEN FLAHERTY
directed by Kikau Alvaro