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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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
3 October - 31 May, 2026
Live Arts is implementing a new initiative! $4.34 tickets for anyone 25 and under, or new to Live Arts (never seen a show before), to any performance. We believe in the future of live Theater!
5 December - 3 January, 2026
Director: Xavier Taylor
Choreography by Liberty DeLeon, Music Direction by Erica Umback. West End Version!
23 January - 15 February, 2026
Director: Robert Chapel
FOUNDERS THEATER JANUARY 23 - FEBRUARY 15
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
14 May - 31 May, 2026
For more than twenty-five years, Live Arts volunteers have packed their bags and crossed the Atlantic to work behind the scenes at the world-renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a global playground for fearless storytelling. They return brimming with audacious scripts, experimental staging tricks, and an appetite for boundary-breaking performance. This season, we're channeling that electric energy right here in Charlottesville. Our final show of the season will be one of our team’s Fringe Favorites. We are excited to produce a fully-staged, intimate, boundary-pushing production chosen from the most exciting new voices we've encountered in Scotland, and adapted for our audience. Come back soon to see which groundbreaking play will capture our hearts and bring a bit of Scotland to our Founder's theater.
