The Magic of Bill Blagg LIVE! is a national touring full production show that is filled with grand-scale illusions, jaw-dropping magic, hilarious comedy and audience participation. It’s best described as a Las Vegas style show that’s fun for the whole family! You’ll see people will float in mid-air while others vanish in the blink of an eye! Over 90 minutes […]
Hyprov’s 90-minute live show combines hypnosis and improv. First, World Renowned Hypnotist Asad Mecci welcomes 20 volunteers on stage to be hypnotized. The most receptive to hypnosis then join Colin Mochrie (Whose Line is it, Anyway?) to improvise the rest of the show, while hypnotized. In the hands of two experts, and solely crafted from the volunteers’ uninhibited, unconscious minds […]
The Lynchburg Film Festival will premiere 20+ new independent films from a wide range of cultures and genres. The program will feature films from around the world including Italy, Ukraine, France, Uganda, India, Czech Republic, Canada, Egypt, UK, and the US. Local filmmakers will also be represented, as 4 films from Lynchburg resident directors will be screened. Beyond the films, […]
The Lynchburg Film Festival will premiere 20+ new independent films from a wide range of cultures and genres. The program will feature films from around the world including Italy, Ukraine, France, Turkey, Uganda, Canada, Egypt, India, and UK. Local filmmakers will also be represented, as 4 films from Lynchburg resident directors will be screened. Beyond the films, the festival is […]
Lynchburg Film Festival To Screen 20+ New Unreleased International Independent Films at the Academy Center of the Arts On October 27,2024, at 6:00pm. The first ever Lynchburg Film Festival will be held in the Historic Theater at the Academy Center of the Arts. The festival, presented by Future Contingents in partnership with James River Arts, will screen a carefully curated […]
The Academy Center of the Arts proudly presents the Academy Clay Festival on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Potters, sculptors, wheel throwers, and hand builders from all across the Piedmont Region and Eastern Shore will gather in Central Virginia along the James River to sell and showcase their work for this one-day show. Participating vendors will also be given the opportunity […]
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, “the king and queen of the banjo” (Paste Magazine), have a musical partnership like no other. Béla Fleck is a fifteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who re-radicalized it by combining it with Far East culture and sounds. The two […]
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, “the king and queen of the banjo” (Paste Magazine), have a musical partnership like no other. Béla Fleck is a fifteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who re-radicalized it by combining it with Far East culture and sounds. The two […]
Suppose, just suppose, you could take a little of everything that’s great about this country and distill it. It’s creativity, it’s ingenuity, it’s the strength of the struggles of so many of it’s people – indigenous, enslaved, or otherwise. And then take that distilled energy and creativity and transform it to a musical form. What would you say if someone […]
Leslie Odom, Jr. is a multifaceted, award-winning vocalist, songwriter, author, and actor. With a career that spans all performance genres, he has received recognition with Tony and Grammy Awards as well as multiple Emmy and Academy Award nominations for his excellence and achievements in Broadway, television, film, and music. Most recently, Odom made his long-awaited return to Broadway to star […]
Leslie Odom, Jr. is a multifaceted, award-winning vocalist, songwriter, author, and actor. With a career that spans all performance genres, he has received recognition with Tony and Grammy Awards as well as multiple Emmy and Academy Award nominations for his excellence and achievements in Broadway, television, film, and music. Most recently, Odom made his long-awaited return to Broadway to star […]
512: The Selena Experience is a mind – blowing experience and the closest one you can get to live a Selena concert. Simply, the best Selena tribute production out there! These musicians came together and orchestrated an extraordinary show that will take you back to 1995 within seconds of their first song. 512 will bring to you the finest Selena […]
