UVA Arts
Learn a bit more about us...Since the University’s founding, the arts have remained an animating force and essential component of the community life on Grounds and throughout Charlottesville. The Vice Provost for the Arts catalyzes and facilitates research, creative production, and service in the arts departments and schools and with numerous affiliates, partners, and community and student-driven arts organizations. The arts are also crucial to the residential experience at UVA, enriching the community and inspiring students to innovate, create, collaborate, explore and discover. Offering an array of performances, exhibitions, and creative opportunities throughout the year, UVA Arts unites students, faculty, staff, visitors, and the public at large.
Upcoming Events
Signature Events
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June 27, 2024
50 Years and Counting: A Musical Revue
Virginia Theatre Festival is celebrating 50 years of professional theatre in Charlottesville with a special musical revue conceived and directed by longtime Artistic Director Robert Chapel. The evening will feature some of the greatest hit songs of the company’s first half-century, performed by a collection of audience-favorite performers, including Broadway veterans! Don’t miss your chance to celebrate the past and toast the future as VTF heads into its next 50 years!
https://virginiatheatrefestival.org/production/50-years-and-counting-a-musical-revue/
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July 11, 2024
Little Shop of Horrors
Suddenly, Seymour is…back! Little Shop of Horrors has been delighting and disarming audiences with its story of lovestruck Seymour, a hapless flower shop employee, and his massive miscalculation that he can use a bloodthirsty succulent to win his beloved Audrey’s heart. Throw in a sadistic dentist, a hard-to-please boss, and a chorus of all-knowing skid row onlookers and you’ll see why audiences across the globe have been moving and grooving (and maybe screaming just a little) to Howard Ashman and Alan Mencken’s 1960s R&B/doo-wop infused sci-fi mashup musical for more than four decades.
https://virginiatheatrefestival.org/production/little-shop-of-horrors/
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July 25, 2024
The 39 Steps
This frenetic farce features four actors playing more than 150 characters in what becomes a feat of herculean hilarity and hair-pin turns in this two-time Tony Award-winning whodunit. A chance encounter with an ill-fated beautiful spy sends Richard Hannay into the bullseye of a dangerous international crime ring and sends theatre lovers on a bullet train-fast comic thrill ride full of plot twists, romance, quick-changes, and laughs delivered at a delightfully dizzying pace.
https://virginiatheatrefestival.org/production/the-39-steps/
Magazine
Spring '24 UVA Arts
As we enter another busy fall season for UVA Arts, we am reminded of the various ways what we do here at UVA connects to the arts world at large.
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