Glowing sculptures, video projections, and luminous artworks transform the PVCC campus into a lustrous landscape of color and delight at “Let There Be Light,” the annual outdoor illuminated art exhibition. The family-friendly event features visual art installations, performances, and a parade of “enlightened beings” led by the Charlottesville Homeschool Art Club. Visitors are encouraged to […]
Combining glitzy Broadway-style production with awe-inspiring contemporary circus arts, Cirque Dreams: Holidaze offers a breathtaking seasonal spectacle. Featuring original tunes, along with new takes on old wintertime classics, this theatrical experience brings live music, dazzling scenery, and stunning costumes together with soaring acrobatics and gravity-defying feats, ensuring the entire family will be on the edge […]
The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll is back in the building this holiday season for Christmas with Elvis. Renowned Presley impersonator Matt Lewis takes the stage backed by the 12-piece Long Live the King Orchestra—also known as Charlottesville’s own Big Ray and the Kool Kats—who open the show with some seasonal favorites. Enjoy a classic […]
In a family-friendly event to kick off the holiday season, the fifth annual WinterSong combines music, community, and festive spirit. Bring your own instrument and join a community jam, enjoy a performance by the Hometown Choir, live music and dancing from the Blue Ridge Irish Music School, and carols led by The Front Porch as […]
Find yourself whisked away to steamy 1980s Madrid with Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Directed by Xavier Taylor with choreography by Liberty DeLeon and music direction by Erica Umback, the sizzling musical farce of female resilience based on the film by Pedro Almodóvar reveals the unraveling world of voice-over artist Pepa as […]
Through 12/21 For its final show of 2025, Les Yeux du Monde offers “GROUNDING,” featuring new paintings continuing a decades-long exploration of light as both subject and substance by longtime gallery artist Annie Harris Massie. In an intimate turn inward, Massie’s oil paintings on canvas and panel landscapes and botanical studies represent the forests and […]
An improv hangout with local funnyman Chris Alan and D.C.-based comic Winston Hodges brings together stand-up, storytelling, informal group therapy—all for the laughs. The Really Good Friends comedy show finds the duo riffing on stage, running new jokes by each other while catching up in a conversation infused with hilarity. The audience joins in on […]
Tuesday Evening Concert Series presents Chanticleer, the male chorus known around the world for its eclectic repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. The Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble performs A Chanticleer Christmas under the leadership of music director Tim Keeler. Named for the clear-singing rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and rooted in the musical traditions of the […]
If you’re reeling from the indefinite hiatus of weirdo rockers Dean and Gene Ween, get a fix of chocolate cheese with Peen, C’ville’s premier Ween tribute band. The group has featured an expanding and evolving lineup since its conception in 2004, but the mission remains the same: Plumb the depths of Ween’s genre-hopping, casually irreverent […]
Four County Players presents a seasonal show steeped in mystery for sleuthy theater fans. The Game’s Afoot; or Holmes for the Holidays brings self-referential storytelling to the stage in a comedy set during the Christmas holiday in 1936. Broadway star William Gillette, internationally admired for his performance as the lead in Sherlock Holmes, invites his […]