Theatre Events 

Doubt
September 18^th – October 7^th
Virginia Stage Company 
Virginia Stage Company (VSC) will begin their 29th season as Hampton Road’s leading professional, resident theater company with the regional premiere of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley. Doubt opens the 2007/08 season September 18 and runs through October 7. VSC is proud to be one of the first regional theaters nationwide to produce this gripping new drama after its wildly successful Broadway run.

Hairspray
September 21^st – 22^nd
Ferguson Center for the Arts 
It’s 1962 – the ‘50s are out and change is in the air. Baltimore’s Tracy Turnblad, the big girl with even bigger hair, has only one dream: to dance on the popular The Corny Collins Show. Will Tracy go from social outcast to sudden star? Will she win the affection of heartthrob Link Larkin? And, most importantly, will she do it all without denting her ‘do??? Plan now to join in on the fun and find out when Hairspray, the Tony award-winning ‘Best Musical’ takes the Ferguson Center stage

Long Day's Journey into Night
September 21^st – October 14^th
Generic Theatre 
“None of us can help the things life has does to us.”  O’Neill wrestled with the demons of his past in this famous, autobiographical explosion of human passions.  In 1912 James Tyrone, a celebrated actor, watches his family reveal their haunted souls in one day.  Arguably America’s greatest play, O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize wining masterpiece is savage, beautiful and hypnotic.

The Man Who Came to Dinner
September 7^th – 23^rd
Little Theatre of Norfolk 
The Stanley living room is monopolized by the irascible invalid; ex-convicts are invited to meals; and transatlantic calls bring a $784 phone bill. The arrival of strange gifts from his friends further destroys domestic tranquility. It would take a stoical housewife to harbor penguins in her library, an octopus in her cellar, and 10,000 cockroaches in her kitchen. When Maggie, his secretary, falls in love with the reporter, Bert Jefferson, Whiteside summons a glamorous actress, Lorraine, to win the affections of the young man. Knowing the girl's charms, Maggie enlists the aid of a clever impersonator who, affecting the voice of Lord Bottomley, whom the actress hopes to marry, asks her by phone to return to him and be married.

Cole Porter’s You Never Know
September 7^th – 30^th
Little Theatre of Virginia Beach
This romantic musical comedy is set in Paris in 1929. Filled with delightful, witty Cole Porter songs, the story takes place one summer evening in Baron Rommer’s elegant penthouse suite at the Hotel Ritz. The baron and his butler switch identities so that the butler can pursue a woman he believes is a lady of much higher class. It transpires that she is actually a maid in the service of Mme. Baltin, a high society figure who has captured the baron’s heart. Her jealous husband and a Josephine Baker-like actress headlining at the Follies Bergere round out the cast of this door-slamming farce with wonderful songs and dancing.

The K of D
September 14^th – 23^rd – Kimball Theatre, Williamsburg
September 25^th – October 7^th – Dr. Mary T. Christian Auditorium
Virginia Premiere Theatre presents: Charlotte’s twin, Jamie, was hit by a car. He kissed her with his dying breath and Charlotte inherited “the Kiss of Death.” Now revenge is coming to a small Ohio town… Originally created at the ACT Theatre in Seattle and developed at the renowned Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Festival and at the Kennedy Center, this supernatural thriller comes to Virginia Premiere Theatre for its first fully-staged production prior to its Washington DC world premiere. Mary Wadkins plays 17 characters from the ages of 12-70 in an evening of chilling, theatrical wizardry that is sure to make you believe... Rebecca Taylor directs.