Join us! The plays in Live Arts 25/26 Season of Passion shows explore that word in all its infinite variety. Join us this year at Live Arts for compelling theater - wherever your passions live!
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3 October - 19 October, 2025
AIRLINE HIGHWAY by Lisa D'Amour Directed by Jude Hansen
28 September - 28 October, 2024
Director: Cady Garey
“Endearingly funny and deeply affecting … It would be hard to identify a work for the theater with its finger more on the pulse of America right now.” —The Washington Post
5 December - 3 January, 2026
Director: Xavier Taylor
A sizzling musical farce of female resilience, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN whisks us off to sexy 1980s Madrid, and to the unravelling world of a voice-over artist, Pepa, plus Pepa’s wandering lover, the lover’s ex- wife, their son and his fiancée, Pepa’s angsty model friend and her suspicious boyfriend, a lawyer, and a talkative taxi driver. All this black comic chaos is served up with a very specially laced gazpacho, and an irresistible Spanish-flavored beat.
14 February - 2 March, 2025
Director: Aiyana Straughn
Based on the real-life Mary Seacole, 19th century Jamaican nurse, adventurer and entrepreneur, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play MARYS SEACOLE sets sail on a kaleidoscopic voyage across oceans, time-shifting through the centuries.
21 March - 12 April, 2025
Director: Susan E. Evans
A tender and deeply poignant play by one of the most celebrated American playwrights of the 20th century.
15 May - 31 May, 2025
Launched in 2023, WATERWORKS celebrates new theatrical voices in Charlottesville and beyond! This festival of new works puts the playwright at center stage and diversifies the stories told on the Live Arts stage.
11 July - 26 February, 2025
Director: Daniel Kunkel
In the early days of the Roman Empire, Coriolanus is a brilliant general but lacking in the finer arts of politics. While initially hailed as a hero to Rome, his arrogance and adversity to the common people leads to his eventual exile. Feeling that there is little other choice, Coriolanus joins with Rome’s sworn enemies to march on Rome.
10 July - 26 July, 2025
Directors: Ti Ames, Music Director Abby Smith
Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen") inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.
