Support LIVE ARTS at the Live Arts Summer Soirée fundraiser full of performances, auctions, mingling, and delighting in the arts!
Saturday, June 20th, 2026
5:30-8:30pm
Summer Garden Party attire (blooms, color, playful duds)
At Live Arts, 123 East Water Street
Performances will include the vocal stylings of the incredible Doug Schneider accompanied by the wonderful Kristin Baltes; hilarious and creative improv with Bent Theatre Company, and a sneak peak at the Live Arts summer teen musical BE MORE CHILL!
Auction fun and general mayhem with the incredible TipTop Twins!
10k matching gift offered by one of our Founders, pictured at the entrance to the Founders Theater! If you can’t join us (or even if you can) DONATE HERE!
$99 includes specialty cocktails, light bites, three floors of fun, and more!
Doug Schneider & Kristin Baltes
Doug Schneider is happy to return to Live Arts. His last performance here was in THE PRODUCERS in 2012. Doug is well known to Charlottesville and Live Arts audiences for his many portrayals in many productions over the last 31 years. Some of his Live Arts appearances were in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, FALSETTOS, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, COPENHAGEN, SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, THE UNDERPANTS and ASSASSINS. Doug is a vocal instructor and coach and will be appearing with the Cville Band June 23 at the Paramount. Thank you Kristin and Miller! DougSchneiderMusic.com
Kristin Baltes is a local pianist, accompanist, music director, vocal coach, and private lesson instructor and has been active in local community theatre for over 20 years. She has worked at Four County Players (Chicago, Into the Woods, The Prom), Mary Washington (adjunct teacher of intro to musical theatre, Ordinary Days), Venture Stage Co. (Dogfight), UVA (Great Comet, Twelfth Night), and Live Arts (Ragtime, Fun Home, Les Mis). She is an avid gardener, foodie, kick boxer, and grandma to two and a half kids!
Bent Theatre Comedy Bent Theatre has been performing improv in Charlottesville, VA, since 2004. We are not a venue, but rather a traveling band of goofballs that can be found at various locations across Central Virginia.
An excerpt from our summer teen musical BE MORE CHILL!
The Tip-Top Twins Tammy and Tina TipTop are straight ho-down exciterated about performulating/hosting galas, music festivals, ladies wrestling events, rock concerts, non-profit auctions, fortieth birthday and fiftieth anniversary parties. After years of holding down Tuesday Brunch at Tip Top in Charlottesville, we’re exciterated to be Big Time!
Ya’ll know what twins are right? It’s when baby Jesus sees a gestatin’ ball of perfection in a ole’ purple cozy womb and says, “Goddamn! I’d be a right bastard if’n I didn’t give ’em a second helpin’ of THAT!” https://denisestewartstudio.com/tiptop-twins
