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Capital One Hall has two theaters: the 1,600-seat Main Theater and the 225-seat black box Vault Theater. The venue boasts a four-story Atrium, designed to fit up to 1,600 people standing or 500 people seated, and a terrace designed to fit up to 450 people standing or 180 people seated [ 3 ]
Charlottesville is located in central Virginia along the Rivanna River —a tributary of the James —just west of the Southwest Mountains, a range which parallels the Blue Ridge about 20 miles (32 km) to the west. Charlottesville is 99 miles (159 km) from Washington, D.C., and 72 miles (116 km) from Richmond.
Tysons, also known as Tysons Corner, [5] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, spanning from the corner of SR 123 (Chain Bridge Road) and SR 7 (Leesburg Pike). [6] It is part of the Washington metropolitan area and located in Northern Virginia between McLean and Vienna along the I-495. [7] [8]
Website. www.jeffersontheater.com. The Jefferson Theater, a former movie palace, is a performing arts venue located at 110 East Main Street in Charlottesville, Virginia, and is the centerpiece of the Historic Downtown Mall. Built in 1912, this combination vaudeville house/ cinema is one of the major performing venues in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The American Shakespeare Center was founded as the Shenandoah Shakespeare EXPRESS in 1988 by Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen and Jim Warren. [6] The first show performed by the newly organized company was Richard III, where actors who made up the locally travelling ensemble troupe came from James Madison University's current students and graduates, and the performance was two hours long (compared to a ...
Website. www .theparamount .net. The Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, was designed by Rapp and Rapp and opened in 1931 as a movie theater. The Paramount continued showing movies until it closed in 1974. In 1990, a group of community members purchased the theater, formed a non-profit corporation, and began raising ...
Tysons Galleria was the third major project of the Gudelsky- Lerner partnership. The property was purchased from The Rouse Company which lost a bitter zoning dispute over the site in 1963. [ 1] In 1981, Lerner bought out the partnership for $21 million, before embarking on a $550 million expansion. [ 2] It was constructed across Virginia State ...
Offstage Theatre produces site-specific one-acts and short plays and stages them in the locations—bars, museums, shops—for which they were written. Founded in Charlottesville, VA in 1988-89 by Doug Grissom, associate professor and Head of Playwriting at University of Virginia, playwrights Mark Serrill and Tom Coash, with John Quinn as its first Resident Director, the company remains ...