The Proteus New Plays Festival Audience has voted...and your votes are in! Your winner for the Proteus Audience Favorite Award is back for an extended 2-week run! The highest-rated play from the 2022 Festival returns in a full-scale production in our intimate Studio Theater, as part of the Curtain Up! New Plays Series. #TheaterStartsHere "Likker […]
The performance scheduled for Thurs, March 9 has been cancelled. Please call the box office at for ticket exchanges and more information. Taking Measure fuses the world and characters of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure into a young woman's struggle through contemporary academia to explore today's Me Too movement and Cancel Culture in a surprisingly nuanced […]
The Z is partnering with YWCA South Hampton Roads to bring an original play by local playwright, Jean Klein, as our season’s community partnership PAY WHAT YOU CAN event. Refraction of Light explores friendship and prejudice in post WW2 America, more specifically in the Berkley neighborhood of Norfolk, Virginia. Registration is required for the play. […]
Multiply the impact of your audition 1 AUDITION 9 THEATER ENTITIES (VMT, THE Z, ARTS FOR LEARNING, CTHR, CITY OF VB & ROūGE, FFX, Core, VSC, ) MORE THAN 12 SHOWS & other opportunities including readings of works in development Saturday, August 11:00-12:00pm (AEA appointments) 1:00-5:00 pm Open call Sunday, August 13 By appointment only […]
Top talents present a one-night-only cabaret of Broadway's future hits! Featuring exclusive first performances of songs from our Spring 2024 Mainstage Curtain Up! Musical, and culminating in a Broadway Jam sesh with sign-ups at the door!* A Pay What You Can Event *Early Sign-Up for Z Artist Members
by Jennie Brown Directed by Patrick Mullins, Asst. Director: Leila Stephanie Can truth prevail in the teaching of history to school children? Sixty-five years apart, two Select Committees of the […]
by P.A.Wray directed by Sharon Cook When Frances, wife of General George Henry Thomas, a strategic winning general in the Civil War, finds out her now ailing and harassed husband has agreed to meet with a journalist with unknown motives, her protective instincts and suspicions go into overdrive, putting undue stress on her husband, and […]
by P.A.Wray directed by Sharon Cook When Frances, wife of General George Henry Thomas, a strategic winning general in the Civil War, finds out her now ailing and harassed husband has agreed to meet with a journalist with unknown motives, her protective instincts and suspicions go into overdrive, putting undue stress on her husband, and […]
by LouJ Stalsworth directed by Sharon Cook Widower Ray Calabria battles 42 years of haunting memories as he nears the sale of his house to a young couple who, that same day, must make a life-shaping decision of their own. This is a love story of then and now. “Boxes of Someday” is told alternately […]
Widower Ray Calabria battles 42 years of haunting memories as he nears the sale of his house to a young couple who, that same day, must make a life-shaping decision of their own. This is a love story of then and now. “Boxes of Someday” is told alternately in real time and as a memory […]
By Marissa Alaniz Directed by Jason Kypros When two sisters start a house renovation, they begin to uncover its secrets, and the mysterious history of the Sally sisters from the 1860s. As their stories converge in a visit from the afterlife, it becomes clear that the real horror is breaking the tight bonds of sisterhood. […]
written by Clyde Santana Directed by Jackie Aldonis In the near future, three lonely yuppy roommates who share a small one-room closet size apartment (quad) discover a dating app that provides a window into the world of super good-looking men. The question; are the windows real or just a well-organized scam?
