Category: Williamsburg Players
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Williamsburg Players’ Remarkable Acting and Strong Storytelling Will Keep You Guessing Throughout “Rehearsal for Murder”
Theatre, at its core, is a game of imagination. You have a group of people – large or small – on stage, pretending to do something, and hoping that the audience is interested enough in the game to stay for a couple of hours. Sometimes, you add fancy sets lit by the most complicated of…
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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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Come See the “Cabaret” at Williamsburg Players, and Wonder – What Would You Do?
Four doors, two staircases, and curtains all around – the stage at Williamsburg Players for their production of “Cabaret” has many ways on and off, both inviting and haunting, an appropriate backdrop for the show about to play out before your eyes. Before you know it, the stage is filled with the cast of the…
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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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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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Williamsburg Players’ Winter Show “Deathtrap” Brings the Chills and Thrills
In our family, we love a good “for entertainment purposes only” bet – we try to guess what configuration the stage will be at Generic Theater, place wagers on how many empty seats there will be when we go to LTVB (spoiler, it is always less than five), and try to prognosticate how the Green…
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Williamsburg Players’ 67th Season Races Along with “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”
We here at the HRACT Awards love a good Sherman Brothers’ musical, so we were excited when Williamsburg Players announced their season included the old classic, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” We also knew that “Chitty” was going to be quite a challenge to bring to life – it is a big cast (half of which…
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The Golden Age of Broadway is Brought to Us by a Bunch of People in PJ’s at Williamsburg Players’ “The Pajama Game”
The conversation topic du jour this week in our house was – what do you think “The Pajama Game” is going to be about? Guesses for what the plot of Williamsburg Players’ latest show would be included a caper where pajamas are evidence, a teenage girl-based plot where all the action happens at a sleepover,…
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