Date Night: Norfolk Theater Festival
Date Night! Connecting with your significant other at a grownup activity (or at least just going somewhere without kids in tow) can be an important part of self-care and nurturing your relationship. If you been meaning to get one scheduled but just aren’t sure what there is to get out and DO, this is the series for you!
Grab your significant other and check out one of the events in our new Date Night Series: Date Night in Hampton Roads!
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Date Night Idea: Norfolk Theatre Festival
This event has multiple shows and performances, making it perfect for a grownup date night, or a family date night!
Where: Multiple Venues in Norfolk, VA
When: Thursday, February 14 – Sunday, February 17, 2019
Cost: Varies by performance, see list below
Description: This Valentine’s Weekend, plan your perfect Norfolk Theatre Festival experience to include unforgettable shows, behind-the-scenes workshops, meet-the-artist events and more. You’ll find great deals on great meals at Norfolk’s many restaurants and breweries, chances to meet and mingle with performers and other theatre lovers, and hotel choices that make an immersive theatre weekend elegantly comfortable.
More Information on Norfolk Theatre Festival: CLICK HERE
Performances include:
- Choir Boy, tickets $15-25
- NSU Theatre Company’s critically acclaimed 2017 National Black Theatre Festival production of Choir Boy is infused with the spirit and music of glorious gospel spirituals. It tells the story of Pharus, who wants to lead his school’s legendary choir—but quickly learns that the “key” he sings in is not in tune with the men of Drew Prep. Choir Boy contains adult language and situations.
- The Comedy of Errors, tickets $10
- Laugh along with the slapstick story of two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated at birth. In Shakespeare’s classic comedy, when friends and families encounter the twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near-seduction, arrests, and false accusations of infidelity, theft, madness, and demonic possession!
- Once On This Island, tickets $15-25
- Once On This Island is the big, bold and breathtaking tale of Ti Moune, a fearless Caribbean girl who is ready to risk it all for love. Guided by the mighty island gods, Ti Moune sets out on a remarkable journey to reunite with a boy who has captured her heart. Once On This Island won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival.
- The Scarlet Letter, tickets $20-25
- This classic tale of forbidden love and irrevocable guilt is presented with Core’s inventive blend of literature, theatre, music, and dance. Secrets, sin, and scripture keep a New World settlement alight with gossip and suspicion as Hester Prynne is accused of adultery. With her newborn child in hand she is sentenced to wear indefinitely the scarlet colored letter ‘A’ as a symbol of her sin while she continues to keep the father’s identity a secret even as her estranged husband re-emerges. In both the light and darkness there is “nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.”
- The Secret Garden, tickets $65
- This Tony Award Winning masterpiece musical premiered at Virginia Stage Company in 1989 before its acclaimed Broadway run. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved children’s novel, this magical tale follows lonely orphan Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle on the Yorkshire moors and discovers renewed life for herself and her sickly cousin, in bringing a secret garden back to life. Soon returning to Broadway, this is a rare opportunity to see and hear this gorgeous music performed live before it heads back to the great white way. Presented as a staged concert version of the musical in collaboration with the Norfolk Botanical Garden, this performance will pay homage to the beautiful music, lyrics, and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman’s script. Cast includes Broadway veterans Kate Fahrner (Glinda, Wicked) and Craig Waletzko (Harry the Horse, Guys and Dolls). This special 30th anniversary celebration of a Virginia Stage Company milestone takes place in a magical setting: the beautiful Norfolk Botanical Garden!
- The Wizard of Oz, tickets $44-79. Get tickets here.
- There truly is no place like home as the greatest family musical of all time, the wonderful Wizard of Oz twists its way into Norfolk! The entire family will be captivated as they travel down the Yellow Brick Road and beyond with Dorothy, Toto and their friends the Cowardly Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow in this lavish production, featuring breathtaking special effects, dazzling choreography and classic songs.
Looking for more Date Night Ideas? Check out our Listings of Date Night Ideas in Hampton Roads, broken down for you by city!
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