Category: Williamsburg Players
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Pictures from the 2023-2024 HRACT Awards Ceremony
We are still glowing from the fun of our first ever awards ceremony! Thanks to J. Stubbs Photography (https://jstubbsphotographyvb.com/), we’ve got professional quality pictures to share with you all from the night! Enjoy!
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And the Winners Are…
We had such a fun night at the inaugural HRACT Awards! Thank you to everyone who showed out, looked amazing, and had a fun time! Although we didn’t let anyone give acceptance speeches, we still have a whole list of people we just have to thank: Oh yeah, there is that little thing about the…
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And the Nominees for the 2023-24 HRACT Awards Are…
We’ve had a big week here at the HRACT Awards, with our voters who are in the 100% group (see the rules here) having some very tough meetings to decide who the nominees are for the 2023-24 season! The winners will be announced at our awards ceremony on August 15 at the Ferguson Center at…
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Take a Voyage to Neverland at Williamsburg Players’ “Peter and the Starcatcher”
“You Can Fly!” When thinking about Peter Pan, it’s difficult to not defer to the Disney movie version of this classic tale. “Peter and the Starcatcher” at Williamsburg Players tells the story before where the Disney film picks up. The boy who we will all know as Peter (played by Samuel Foraker in The Wasp’s…
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A Failing Flower Shop, a Sadistic Dentist, a Strange and Unusual Plant, and a Neighborhood’s Dreams Add Up to a Wonderful “Little Shop of Horrors” at Williamsburg Players
“Little Shop of Horrors” is one of my all-time favorite musicals, and so I was incredibly excited around this time last year when Williamsburg Players announced they’d be putting it on. What I didn’t realize at the time was that its run would overlap with the solar eclipse happening on Monday – a celestial event…
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Celebrate 125 Years of Noël Coward with Production of “Private Lives” at Williamsburg Players
2024 is starting off with a bang for us here at the HRACTys. After missing the opening weekend of “But Why Bump Off Barnaby?” at Little Theatre of Norfolk over MLK Weekend, the following weekend we decided to embark on a triple play weekend extravaganza! We began this fun community theater weekend on Friday night…
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Lights, Camera, Action! Mack & Mabel at Williamsburg Players tells the (sort of) true love story of two silent film giants
Being too excited to wait, on Friday afternoon, we moved our tickets up a day to see Williamsburg Players’ opening night performance of Mack & Mabel! This is a musical set at the time when movies were becoming talkies, and our leading man, movie director Mack Sennett, thinks the new-fangled talkies are just a fad. …
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Williamsburg Players Gives us a Taste of Brooklyn in Brighton Beach Memoirs
Upon walking into the James-York Playhouse for Williamsburg Players’ production of Brighton Beach Memoirs, all I could say was “wow”. The set design, led by Bill Velardi, was amazing. They made a whole functional second story on stage, such that they effectively had four separate rooms on stage (two upstairs, one large room downstairs, and…