The staff and board of Virginia Children's Theatre has announced the recipients of the annual scholarships awarded by VCT. Campbell Duff will receive the Sarabeth Hammond Scholarship and Holden White will receive the ARD Properties Scholarship for the 2023-2024 Season.
What’s a production team to do? About half way through Virginia Children’s Theatre’s Thursday morning matinee of “Madagascar: A Musical Adventure,” a fire alarm went off at the Jefferson Center,
Virginia Childrenâs Theatre has parted ways with the director and educator who founded the company 12 years ago.
Pat Wilhelms â who led the nonprofit, known then as Roanoke Childrenâs Theatre, through its first 11 years â declined to comment about the details of the separation.
âMy heart and soul will always be with Roanoke Childrenâs Theatre and I hope in the future that the new artistic director and board members will uphold the integrity and commitment to the youth, families and schools that the theater was founded on,â she wrote.
The nonprofitâs name changed to Virginia Childrenâs Theatre in 2020. The year before, Wilhelms stepped down as artistic director to become the companyâs resident stage director and handed the reins to her hand-picked successor, Brett Roden.