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Riverside Center announces line-up of Broadway’s Best for 2021

Fredericksburg, VA – Riverside Center for the Performing Arts and Producing Artistic Director, Patrick A’Hearn are delighted to announce a thrilling lineup of shows for its 24th season of bringing Broadway’s Best to Virginia that includes the return of Joyce DeWitt and Joe Inscoe in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and the regional premiere of the side-splitting new musical, Grumpy Old Men, based on the classic motion picture which starred Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Ann-Margaret. The season opens with the bubbly, off-Broadway hit, The Marvelous Wonderettes, then continuing with a sweeping tale of love and redemption in Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Tony Award-nominated Bright Star. The season will ride into the holiday season and conclude with the beloved and heartwarming musical adaptation of Meet Me in St. Louis.

Ring in the holidays with Riverside: Be a part of theater family with new show

As soon as you’ve wrapped your Thanksgiving feast, it’s officially time to get in the holiday spirit.

While some of you may have shrugged off a Christmas tune or the oodles of holiday offerings on Netflix to this point, you have absolutely no excuse not to be jolly now.

Fortunately, you have some help in the form of Riverside Center for the Performing Arts’ latest show.

“A Riverside Family Christmas” and all of its seasonal cheer débuted yesterday and runs until Dec. 27.

[BroadwayWorld] Riverside Center for the Performing Arts Presents A Riverside Family Christmas

Sleigh bells are ringing as Riverside Center for the Performing Arts prepares to celebrate the holiday season with A Riverside Family Christmas, opening Wednesday, November 25th, and running through Sunday, December 27th. Experience the warmth, traditions, values, and messages of Christmas in a show packed with charm, inspiration, and the goodwill of the season. Enjoy pure entertainment through music, dance, and holiday stories.

Riverside Center is thrilled to introduce the top-notch cast of performers who are eager to return to the stage and spread holiday cheer. Jarrett Bloom, Carson Eubank, Gabrielle Gutierrez, Kathy Halenda, Andrea Kahane, Ian Lane, Star Spann, and Stephanie Wood round out the cast. Patrons can also look forward to a guest appearance by Producing Artistic Director Patrick A’Hearn.

Andrea Kahane and Carson Eubank preview Souvenir with Town Talk’s Ted Schubel

Listen to Andrea Kahane (Florence Foster Jenkins and Carson Eubank (Cosmé McMoon) preview our current production of Souvenir: A Fantasia about the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins at Riverside alongside Riverside Center’s Producing Artistic Director, Patrick A’Hearn and Town Talk’s Ted Schubel (NewsTalk 1230 WFVA).

[The Free Lance-Star] Intermission is over: Riverside raises the curtain for ‘Souvenir,’ its first show since March

Where the stage has been dark, light is emerging.

Since the mid-March closing of “Grease,” the main stage at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts remained closed at the hands of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The organization has found ways to persevere in the meantime—launching a well-attended “Sip & Sing Supper Club” in its Rhapsody Ballroom and engaging fans in throwback activities on social media, among other creative endeavors.

Now, it’s time to hit the big stage yet again.

“Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins” débuted at Riverside on Wednesday. It will run Wednesdays to Sundays through Nov. 8.