There's something for everyone in our 45th season!

This electrifying classic musical kicks off our 45th season and 110th year of the Wells. The sun rises on this new production with a wonderful cast and a lavish orchestra to tell this heartwarming story of fathers and daughters, husbands and wives, and the timeless traditions that define faith and family. Featuring the Broadway classics “Tradition,” “If I Were a Rich Man,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” “Matchmaker, Matchmaker” and “To Life,” Fiddler on the Roof will introduce a new generation to this uplifting celebration that raises its cup to joy! To love! To life!

Directed By GARY JOHN LA ROSA

Hampton Roads’ favorite holiday tradition returns with a larger than life production. See Ebenezer Scrooge’s haunting journey unfold with inventive theatricality incorporating traditional holiday music harmonizing to produce a tour de force of laughter, hope, and the magic of the season. Don’t miss this heartwarming tale that reminds us that it is never too late to become our best selves. Beatty Barnes returns to reprise his role as Ebenezer Scrooge.

Directed by TOM QUAINTANCE

Step into a world of deception, suspense, and betrayal as a retired tennis player plots to murder his wealthy wife…until his plan takes an unexpected turn. Whether you’re a devoted fan of Alfred Hitchcock’s renowned film adaptation or experiencing this thrilling masterpiece for the first time, Dial M For Murder is guaranteed to keep audiences guessing, gasping, and smiling until the final curtain call. With his deft hand for timing and humor, mystery and comedy, director Mark Shanahan (The 39 Steps, The Hound of the Baskervilles) returns to surprise and delight VSC audiences.

Directed by MARK SHANAHAN

A co-production with Norfolk State University Theatre Company. In this beloved tale, we follow the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan as he joins the king’s Musketeer of the Guard. Joined by friends and fellow musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, they must travel through the rustic landscapes of early 17th century England and France to protect the royal family they have sworn an oath to. Scandal, intrigue, romance, and good old fashioned sword-fighting can be expected in this swash-buckling adventure.

Directed by TOM QUAINTANCE

Harlem, 1930. The Blues are getting bluer and the gin is running dry. A free-spirited Cotton Club singer has just been fired with nowhere left to go but down. So, she turns to her best friend, an extravagant costume designer with plans to dress Josephine Baker in Paris. Maybe they can run away together? Or maybe the handsome southerner that just came knocking can offer an even better life? But the saxophone dreams of Harlem rarely end as smoothly as they start.

Directed by JERRELL HENDERSON

Schedule subject to change.

This tribute to the amazing songs of The Everly Brothers features Ben Hope (last seen on the VSC stage as Johnny Cash in the 2017 production of Ring of Fire) and Eric Scott Anthony performing the music of the immensely popular American rock-n-roll duo. The Everly Brothers' style of harmonizing and steel-string acoustic guitar influenced a generation of country rockers and made dozens of hits famous world-wide including “Bye Bye Love,” “Wake Up Little Susie,” “All I Have to Do Is Dream,” and “Cathy’s Clown.”

DIRECTED BY TOM QUAINTANCE