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Triune Entertainment will present Finding Neverland at Journey Theater in Vint Hill, the company said.

The production runs October 23 through November 1. With music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham, the show explores how playwright J.M. Barrie found inspiration for Peter Pan through his friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. It is described as a celebration of creativity, friendship, courage, and childlike wonder.


Manassas

ARTfactory’s four-story haunted attraction is returning to downtown Manassas this October with a new immersive storyline, Factory of Fear: Outbreak, the organization said in a release.

The annual fundraiser transforms the historic ARTfactory building into a walk-through experience built around infection, quarantine and chaos, with live scare actors, special effects and new sets on each floor, according to the release. Proceeds support ARTfactory and its accessible arts programming.


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At Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, the plates are still on the tables when the razors come out.

Uriah Kiser put that problem to the cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street the morning after he sat through Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s musical thriller in a Stafford County dinner house. What happens, he asked, when the bloodiest show in the American musical catalog shares a room with dessert?


Manassas

ARTfactory’s production of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit opens Friday, Sept. 18, at the ARTfactory in Manassas.

The four-actor existentialist drama follows three souls — Vincent (Andrew Chi), Inez (Becca Parsons) and Estelle (Amantha Peterson) — ushered into a single room in the afterlife by a mysterious Valet. Expecting the physical torment of damnation, they instead find they are destined to become one another’s eternal tormentors, according to ARTfactory press materials. Ned Kieloch plays the Valet for performances Sept. 18–20, and Brendan Banner plays the role Sept. 25–27.


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Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, the world’s longest-running play, is now on stage at the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, bringing Broadway-caliber intrigue, sophisticated humor and surprising twists to the Fredericksburg area through August 23.


Manassas

Actors Theatre at the ARTfactory has rescheduled its Saturday, July 25 performance of Christopher Durang’s comedy Beyond Therapy because of the Mariachis Taco & Tequila Festival taking place next door.

The performance will now be held Thursday, July 30, at 7:30 p.m. Ticket holders for the original July 25 show will be contacted with available options, the ARTfactory said.


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We had the chance to catch Guys and Dolls at the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, and it was everything you love about live theater done right.

This production, running through June 28, 2026, serves as a fitting tribute in America’s 250th birthday year — a timeless Broadway tale full of high-energy dancing, unforgettable music, and a story that still feels fresh.


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Triune Entertainment presents the autobiographical musical “Tick, Tick… Boom!” from June 19-28 in the new BackLot Theatre in downtown Warrenton.

The show by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning composer of “Rent,” tells the story of a composer and the sacrifices he made to achieve his big break in theater. This production, directed by Ryan Balint, features live music from local band Uncle Drew and the Scoundrels. It is presented through special arrangement with Music Theater International.


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Actress Sally Struthers told the Stafford County Board of Supervisors on May 5, 2026, that the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts is “a jewel in the crown of Stafford County” and urged county leaders to provide financial support and a formal partnership to help it grow as a regional theater.

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Actors Theatre at the ARTfactory will present Disney’s Newsies the Musical at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas this June. The high-energy show, based on the real 1899 Newsboys Strike in New York City, follows young newspaper sellers who unite against powerful publishers for fair treatment. It features a Tony Award-winning score by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman with a book by Harvey Fierstein.

The production runs June 5 through June 21 in the Gregory Family Theater. Performances are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. on June 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 and 20, and at 2 p.m. on June 7, 14 and 21. Directed by Caroline Scarborough, the cast includes Evan Zimmerman as Jack Kelly, Sean Pflueger as Joseph Pulitzer, and many others from the area.


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