ANNOUNCING OUR 2025 SEASON

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2025 Summer Season

Into the Woods

2025

The Heart Sellers

2025

Get Happy!

2025

About Us

Now in its 51st year, the Virginia Theatre Festival, a program of the University of Virginia, is the Commonwealth’s longest-running professional summer theatre company. Founded in 1974, VTF treats local and regional audiences to some of the world’s most renowned plays and musicals while also highlighting the voices of new playwrights and composers. Featuring professional artists from around the country, VTF’s work celebrates the unique power of live theater to evoke history and recollection, catalyze conversation and change, and inspire joy and laughter.

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Join Our Team

We proudly offer employment opportunities for theatre artists, technicians, and administrators. Our summer season offers a variety of opportunities for current college students, recent college graduates, and theatre professionals at all levels of experience.

View our current full-time and seasonal job openings here.

Ways to Give

The Virginia Theatre Festival relies on the generous support of our community to sustain live, professional theatre in the heart of Charlottesville. Your contribution to the VTF fund is the most impactful and direct way to support the art and artists that enliven and inspire audiences every summer.

Learn more about the many ways you can have a leading role as a supporter of VTF!