Category: Williamsburg Players
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Sometimes You Just Need an Hour(glass) To Feel Like Yourself Again: WP Presents “Freaky Friday”
Perhaps my all-time favorite Broadway actress is Heidi Blickenstaff. I saw her perform at EPCOT for the Festival of the Arts a few years ago, and immediately declared her to be the best singer I had ever heard. So you can imagine how excited I was to hear that Williamsburg Players was bringing the musical…
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The 2025-26 ACT-y Winners
Three years in – so we can officially call ourselves an annual event! We are still buzzing from last night’s awards ceremony – thank you all for being an amazing audience yet again! A few thank-yous are hugely necessary upfront: Without further ado – the 2025-2026 HRACT Awards go to… *Note: The theaters’ names have…
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The 2025-26 HRACT Awards Nominees
Another remarkable year of theater has come and gone here in the Hampton Road region, and we can’t wait to celebrate it all at our awards ceremony on August 20th at 7:30PM at the Ferguson Center at CNU. Narrowing down the list of nominees was once again incredibly difficult – a credit to all the…
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The Williamsburg Players Usher in the Summer (and the 250th Anniversary) with “1776”
You have to hand it to the Williamsburg Players’ season development team – they knew what they were doing when they picked “1776” to be their production closest to the 250th July 4th celebration in the Colonial Capital. With such a sure bet to sell well, the production team, cast, and crew could have phoned…
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Williamsburg Players Rewrites “Her-story” with “The Revolutionists”
“It might be fiction, but it is not fake.” A few days after seeing “The Revolutionists”, playing now at Williamsburg Players, I keep coming back to this line, said multiple times throughout the show. In a world that is stranger than fiction at times, it was this line about how art can feel more real…
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Unsettling Thy Name is Rhoda – Williamsburg Players Presents the Psychological Thriller “Bad Seed”
After a few starts and stops in my attempt to write a review of “Bad Seed”, currently showing at Williamsburg Players, I’ve concluded that is it just a difficult show to write about. Not because of any lack of skill, talent, or effort on stage or behind-the-scenes – this show had plenty of each. But…
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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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