Live Arts Theater

Powered by more than 1,200 volunteers, Live Arts is a national model for engaged community theater. For more than three decades, weve dedicated ourselves to forging theater and community in Charlottesville, Virginia. Our engagement in local communities runs deep, and the caliber of our volunteer-staged productions continues to astound audiences. We are the anchor tenant in a four-story performance space in the heart of downtown Charlottesville. We acknowledge that we occupy the ancestral home of the Monacan and Manahoac Nations and that we live on stolen land. In a typical year, we present a compelling season of mainstage plays and musicals. We welcome hundreds of people to our year-round education workshops and youth summer camps. We run a lab that helps local playwrights develop their work. And for nearly two decades, we have provided tech support to high school and college theater companies performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. At the start of the pandemi...