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Join us! The plays in Live Arts 25/26 Season of Passion 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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2025-2026 Season

The 2025/26 Season of Passion is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

LAISSEZ LES BON TEMPS ROULER/Let the Good Times Roll!

6 September - 6 September, 2025

Join us for a "fun-draising" party on 9/6! More details to follow! Tickets: https://livearts.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/

AIRLINE HIGHWAY

3 October - 19 October, 2025
Director: Jude Hansen

AIRLINE HIGHWAY by Lisa D'Amour Directed by Jude Hansen In the GIBSON THEATER: Oct. 3-19 "A beautiful and mesmerizing kaleidoscope of a play" - New York Magazine

The 434 Initiative

3 October - 31 May, 2026

Live Arts is implementing a new initiative! $4.34 tickets for anyone 25 and under, to any performance. We believe in the future of live Theater!

WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

5 December - 3 January, 2026
Director: Xavier Taylor

Choreography by Liberty DeLeon, Music Direction by Erica Umback. West End Version!

STAGE KISS

23 January - 15 February, 2026
Director: Robert Chapel

FOUNDERS THEATER JANUARY 23 - FEBRUARY 15

HAMLET

6 March - 22 March, 2026
Director: Susan E. Evans

GIBSON THEATER MARCH 6-22

BLOOD AT THE ROOT

10 April - 26 April, 2026
Director: Leslie M. Scott Jones

"Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root ..." Excerpt of lyrics from the song “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol FOUNDERS THEATER APRIL 10-26

2026 WATERWORKS Festival

14 May - 31 May, 2026

Putting the playwright center stage! The fourth annual “fringe-adjacent” festival of new theatrical work at Live Arts! It's a celebration of new voices, building on Live Arts' long history of showcasing new works and diversifying the stories told on our stage.

2025-2026 Season of Passion

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