Theyâre creepy and theyâre kooky, mysterious and spooky, and theyâre helping Virginia Childrenâs Theatre strike a new key in their upcoming shows.
âThe Addams Familyâ will open the Roanoke-based nonprofitâs 2021-22 season during an appropriately ooky October booking at Jefferson Center â all assuming the stateâs COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on gatherings have sufficiently loosened by then.
Both âThe Addams Familyâ and the production that follows, âCinderella,â will be the full Broadway musical adaptations. The shows mark a departure of sorts for VCT, which in all its past seasons has mainly selected plays that are adaptations of books written for children.
Brett Roden, Producing Artistic Director of Virginia Children s Theatre announced that productions will resume for the current 2020-2021 Season. Productions will be moved to outside locations and performed during the Spring and Summer of 2021.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Virginia Children s Theatre was forced to make changes to the previously announced schedule back in September 2020. Now the theatre will move forward with several productions to finish out the current 2020-2021 Season. Virginia Children s Theatre will produce MARY POPPINS, JR., JUNIE B JONES: TOP SECRET PERSONAL BEESWAX and OZ: A STAGED CONCERT at various locations throughout the Roanoke Valley and Virginia. Additionally, VCT will also offer OUT OF THE SHADOWS, a touring presentation of art, inclusivity and conversation addressing the silent epidemic of mental illness.
Virginia Children s Theatre To Host Virtual Season Announcement
The virtual season announcement is another way that audiences will be entertained by the high-quality talent at Virginia Children s Theatre.by BWW News Desk
The show must go on! Virginia Children s Theatre (VCT) will host a virtual season announcement to announce the selection of plays in the Company s upcoming 2021-2022 Season. The virtual season announcement will take place on Wednesday, March 17 at 6 p.m. on Facebook Live via the VCT Facebook page (www.facebook.com/virginiachildrenstheatre).
Throughout the pandemic, VCT has remained committed to serving youth and families in as many ways as possible, many of them have been free or by donation. The virtual season announcement is another way that audiences will be entertained by the high-quality talent at Virginia Children s Theatre. The season announcement will feature performances from each of the newly announced productions in the upcoming 2021-2022 Season. Profe
Virginia Children’s Theatre touring Roanoke in search of talent
Actors in grades K-12 are encouraged to attend
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ROANOKE, Va. – The Virginia Children’s Theatre is looking for little stars in its first-ever traveling talent search.
The theatre will host auditions at four area libraries looking for kids to cast in three upcoming productions, including Mary Poppins Jr.
Actors in grades K-12 are encouraged to attend and you do not have to prepare anything to perform in advance.
VTC staff will teach participants a short song.
“At VCT we believe that theatre skills are skills for life and theatre skills are life skills, so we’re teaching multiple different things and we’re educating while we’re producing top notch theatre, so this is a great opportunity for students to be creative and have a creative outlet especially during a time like right now,” said Brett Roden, VTC, Producing Artistic Director.
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.