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For just $225, a Richmond Membership Pass gives you 6 tickets to use however you like across our season, including Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Complete Works of Jane Austen (abridged), Harlem Duet, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, and Sunday in the Park with George.

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October 8 – November 1, 2026
Virginia Rep’s Theatre Gym, 114 W. Board St., Richmond, VA 23220

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel comes to electrifying life in David Catlin’s bold theatrical adaptation of Frankenstein.

On a stormy night, Mary Shelley begins to tell a ghost story—and conjures a world of ambition, creation, love, and devastating consequence. As Victor Frankenstein pursues the impossible and brings life to a creature assembled from the dead, creator and creation become locked in a struggle that asks what it truly means to be human.

Inventive, visceral, and deeply theatrical, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein brings Shelley herself into the heart of her legendary tale, exploring the forces that shaped both the young writer and the monster that has haunted our imaginations for more than two centuries.

This fall, Richmond Shakespeare transforms the intimate Theatre Gym into a world of shadow, science, and suspense for a Frankenstein unlike any you’ve experienced before.

Some monsters are created. Others are made.

January 28 - February 21, 2027

Virginia Rep’s Theatre Gym, 114 W. Board St., Richmond, VA 23220

“It is a truth universally acknowledged…”

Six novels. Dozens of characters. Three actors. One delightfully chaotic evening.

All of Jane Austen’s beloved heroines, ridiculous relatives, dashing gentlemen, disastrous proposals, and romantic entanglements collide in The Complete Works of Jane Austen (abridged)—a fast-paced comedy that races through the entire Austen canon.

From the drawing rooms of Pride and Prejudice to the matchmaking of Emma, the heartbreak of Sense and Sensibility, and beyond, Austen’s unforgettable characters are lovingly—and irreverently—turned upside down in a whirlwind of costume changes, literary jokes, romance, and Regency mayhem.

Whether you can recite every word of Persuasion or have never opened an Austen novel, this affectionate celebration proves that more than two centuries later, Jane still knows exactly how ridiculous we can be when we fall in love.

Six novels. Three actors. Absolutely no sense or sensibility required.

April 8 - May 2, 2027

Virginia Rep’s Theatre Gym, 114 W. Board St., Richmond, VA 23220

"I am not your victim…This is about race."

Before Shakespeare’s Othello loved Desdemona, playwright Djanet Sears imagines another story—a love affair history never told.

Set at the intersection of Shakespeare and contemporary Black experience, Harlem Duet follows Billie and Othello as their marriage fractures when Othello leaves her for a white woman. Moving across three moments in time, their intimate struggle becomes something much larger: an examination of race, love, betrayal, identity, and the forces that shape how we see one another.

Winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award for Drama, Sears’ extraordinary play speaks both to and against Shakespeare’s Othello, placing the woman who came before Desdemona at the center of her own story.

Provocative, poetic, funny, and fiercely theatrical, Harlem Duet asks us to consider the stories the classical canon has preserved—and the voices it has left unheard.

Before Desdemona, there was Billie.

Summer 2027

Agecroft Hall, 4305 Sulgrave Rd, Richmond, VA 23221

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”

A storm. A shipwreck. An enchanted island where nothing—and no one—is quite what it seems.

Years after being driven from his home, Prospero lives in exile with his daughter Miranda, surrounded by spirits and armed with powerful magic. When fate brings his enemies within reach, he summons a violent tempest and scatters them across the island, setting in motion a final reckoning filled with romance, revenge, comedy, wonder, and transformation.

One of Shakespeare’s most magical plays, The Tempest is also one of his most deeply human: a story about parents and children, power and freedom, the wounds we carry, and the extraordinary courage required to let them go.

Richmond Shakespeare brings Shakespeare’s island to life in an imaginative outdoor production where the natural world becomes part of Prospero’s magic.

The storm brings them together. What happens after may set them free.

Summer 2027

Agecroft Hall, 4305 Sulgrave Rd, Richmond, VA 23221

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.”

Two young people meet. Their families are enemies. And in an instant, the world changes.

In a city consumed by an old and seemingly endless feud, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet discover something their families have forgotten how to imagine: a future together. Their exhilarating first love becomes an act of rebellion against a world determined to keep them apart.

Shakespeare’s most famous love story is also a breathtaking examination of a community poisoned by division. Filled with humor, passion, swordplay, poetry, and some of the most recognizable language ever written for the stage, Romeo and Juliet remains startlingly alive more than four centuries after it was written.

Richmond Shakespeare returns to this timeless tragedy with a production centered on the urgency of young love—and the devastating cost when one generation passes its hatred to the next.

They inherited their families’ hatred. They chose love instead.

Summer 2027

Leslie Cheek Theater at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 N Arthur Ashe Blvd, Richmond, VA 23221

“White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge: bring order to the whole.”

What does it cost to create something that lasts?

Inspired by Georges Seurat’s masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical enters the mind of an artist consumed by the need to create.

As George struggles to complete his painting, the people around him—including Dot, the woman who loves him—begin to wonder whether there is room in his life for anything besides his art. A century later, another artist named George confronts a different creative crisis and discovers that moving forward may require looking back.

With one of Sondheim’s most beautiful and sophisticated scores, Sunday in the Park with George is a moving meditation on art, love, legacy, and the difficult choices we make in pursuit of something extraordinary.

Richmond Shakespeare brings this landmark American musical to the stage in a celebration of the artists who imagine worlds—and the people who make those worlds possible.

Art isn’t easy. Creating something that matters never is.