Category: 2024-2025
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The 2024-25 ACT-y Winners
Year number two of the HRACT Awards is in the books! Thank you to everyone for coming out to support the amazing community that these theaters create (and of course, some remarkable performances and impressive technical work). We’ve got to run the credits one more time for all the incredible people who made the evening…
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Information and Reminders for those Attending the Awards Ceremony
The 2024-2025 Hampton Roads Achievement in Community Theater Awards is almost here! If you are planning to attend, here are some reminders and information: If you are a NAMED NOMINEE (i.e., your name individually appears on our nomination announcement here): Finally, if you are part of a nomination for Best Performance of a Song (Ensemble),…
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The 2024-25 HRACT Awards Nominees
We can’t believe that the second season of the HRACT Awards has already come to a close. We thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the shows this year, and really struggled to narrow down the list of deserving nominees to the requisite number for each category. The winners will be announced at our awards ceremony on October…
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Cats Fit on the Windowsill, Children Fit in the Snow, and Williamsburg Players Fit on the Stage in “Pippin”
“Pippin” is one of my top five favorite shows, so I was very excited when Williamsburg Players announced that it would be closing out their (and coincidentally, the HRACT Award’s) 2024-2025 season. For some reason, the plotline really hits home for me, with Pippin seeking out the extraordinary, fighting his inner demons (including a lack…
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A Room with a View is Worth Fighting For at Little Theatre of Virginia Beach’s “Ripcord”
Photo courtesy of J. Stubbs Photography (https://jstubbsphotographyvb.com/) Yankees vs Red Sox. Jim vs Dwight. Will Schuester vs Sue Sylvester. Phoebe Buffay vs that evil twin sister of hers, Ursula. Rivalries are so fun to watch play out – and you can go ahead and add the protagonists of LTVB’s “Ripcord”, Abby vs Marilyn, to that…
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Hijinks and Hoaxes: the Z’s Curtain Up New Play Series Brings Us “As You Love It”
Photo courtesy of J. Stubbs Photography (https://jstubbsphotographyvb.com/) *Note: As per the performance eligibility requirements laid out here, this production is not up for HRACT Award consideration.* It has been a year full of Shakespeare-adjacent plays for us, from “Something Rotten” to “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (revised) (again)”, so it seemed only proper that…
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Turn Your Radio to W-LTN, Right in the Middle of the Dial, for “Memphis: The Musical”
Photo courtesy of J. Stubbs Photography (https://jstubbsphotographyvb.com/) Sometimes the English language doesn’t quite have the right word to describe something. For some, that might lead to a long paragraph to explain it. Others might just stagnate and keep the thought to themselves. The visionaries, however, don’t let a lack of creativity from prior generations get…
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Heartwarming and Heartbreaking, PCT’s “The Boys Next Door” Lives in the Moment, and That is Enough
“A society should be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members.” This line, delivered in an aside directly to the audience by Jack, the social worker in charge of the four intellectually disabled men living together in the acceptable-if-not-luxurious apartment in which this show spends the majority of its time, ensures the intent…
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Dance to that Americana Beat as You Head to Smithfield Little Theatre for “Ragtime the Musical”
It might make for a worse image for our traditional Instagram pre-show pic, but I do love it when you walk into a theater and the curtain is closed. There is something about the element of mystery that heightens your senses as the music starts and the curtain is drawn, bringing you more fully into…
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Is He or Isn’t He? That’s the Magic of Harvey at Williamsburg Players
As someone who has watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” many a time in my day, I am mildly familiar Jimmy Stewart’s work, and thus, although having never seen the movie “Harvey”, was excited to attend Williamsburg Players’ production involving that famous tall rabbit. (Don’t tell anyone, but just a couple hours before the show, I…
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