We have been making professional and innovative theatre in Central Virginia for 18 years!
Check our some of our past productions below.
2023 Season
Buried Deep: The Lynchburg Pools at Riverside Park
Written by Josh Brewer
Directed by Dennis Whitehead Darling
Location: Riverside Park Historic Pool Site
As fireworks fill the Independence Day evening, members of the Lynchburg community gather to revisit events from sixty years prior that sent shockwaves through not only their town, but their nation as well. Through dramatization and readings from the historical record, the group recalls the tumultuous period from the pools’ desegregation to their being closed and, ultimately, filled with earth. This remount of our 2022 original production toured into Lynchburg City high schools, as wells, did a week-long run at one of the original buried pool sites in Riverside Park.
T-Room…The Musical
Libretto by Dina Gregory and Music by Rosabella Gregory
Directed by Darnell Pierre Benjamin
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
Lynchburg’s iconic Texas Inn is the setting for this raucous and poignant musical about the mysterious alchemy of a late-night eatery. Run by sharp-tongued matriarch, Miss Betty, and frequented by regulars like the kindhearted Brooks, the Texas Inn, aka the “T-Room,” draws folks of all stripes to its stainless steel counter. But when two UVA professors, Maddy and Khent, roll up one evening in their shiny new Tesla, they get more than just some local color and an inexpensive meal. Instead, thanks to a pair of feisty young locals, Liza and Gunner, their lives are forever changed. With a live band embodying the spirit of the Texas Inn, this musical celebrates the communal spaces that bring people together from all backgrounds and walks of life.
Treasure Island
Written by Bryony Lavery
Directed by Stephanie Holladay Earl
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
A new twist on an old classic, Treasure Island is a nonstop piratical adventure sure to keep patrons of all ages on the edges of their seats.
It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the innkeeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in—and her dangerous voyage begins. Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of murder, money, and mutiny is brought to life in this thrilling adaptation.
2022 Season
Buried Deep: The Lynchburg Pools
Written by Josh Brewer
Directed by Dennis Whitehead Darling
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
As fireworks fill the Independence Day evening, members of the Lynchburg community gather to revisit events from sixty years prior that sent shockwaves through not only their town, but their nation as well. Through dramatization and readings from the historical record, the group recalls the tumultuous period from the pools’ desegregation to their being closed and, ultimately, filled with earth.
Bye Bye Birdie
Written by Michael Stewart
Directed by Cory James Dunn
Musical Direction by Vince DiMura
Location: Warehouse Theater at Academy Center for the Arts
A loving send-up of the 1950s, small-town America, teenagers, and rock & roll, Bye Bye Birdie remains as fresh and vibrant as ever. Teen heartthrob Conrad Birdie has been drafted, so he chooses All-American girl Kim MacAfee for a very public farewell kiss. Featuring a tuneful high-energy score, and a hilarious script, Birdie continues to thrill audiences around the world!
2021 Season
2021 Festival Season
Location: University of Lynchburg Pavilion
This summer extravaganza featured John Manzari, Tappin’ in the ‘Burg; Vince di Mura, Fran Prisco, and Sage Melcher in Songs for the Ages; Robert Dubac’s THE MALE INTELLECT: AN OXYMORON?; David Haught & Skip Robinson in Howlin’ at the Moon, Jenna Pastuszek in Get Happy: A Judy Garland Tribute; Taylor Rodriguez’ A Tribute to the King; and Desiree Roots’ Ladies of Jazz. It was also the inaugural presentation of our Homegrown Talent Competition!
2020 Season - Cancelled
2019 Season
Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie
By Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom
Based on the book by Mitch Albom
Directed by Matt Silva
Location: The Miller Center
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is the autobiographical story of Mitch Albom, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career, and Morrie Schwartz, his former college professor. Sixteen years after graduation, Mitch happens to catch Morrie's appearance on a television news program and learns that his old professor is battling Lou Gehrig's Disease. Mitch is reunited with Morrie, and what starts as a simple visit turns into a weekly pilgrimage and a last class in the meaning of life.
The Bluest Water
Conceived by Jason Chimonides and Geoff Kershner
Written by Jason Chimonides
Directed by Aaron C. Thomas
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
In August of 1969, Hurricane Camille, the second-most intense hurricane on record to hit the United States, brought devastation to Nelson County. THE BLUEST WATER follows survivors Jared and Liz, fifty years later, as they try to figure out what happened to a friend who lost his family to the storm, and as they remember the dead and try to heal from their own wounds. On the 50th anniversary of Hurricane Camille's landfall, The Bluest Water honors and remembers those who lost their lives and the first responders who risked their lives to protect those who survived.
My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra
Created by David Grapes and Todd Olson
Directed by Matt Silva
Musical Direction by Vince di Mura
Location: Warehouse Theatre at the Academy Center of the Arts
MY WAY relives the legendary career of Frank Sinatra as four actors share more than 50 of his beloved hits that span the breadth of his career from the 1950s to the 1990s. Performing songs that include "Fly Me to the Moon," "Chicago," "New York, New York," and "That's Life" are four professional performers straight from the stages of New York City.
2018 Season
Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story
Written by Alan Janes
Directed by Matt Silva
Musical Direction by Chris Wren and Sarah Godwin
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story tells the true story of Buddy’s meteoric rise to fame, from the moment in 1957 when ‘That’ll Be The Day’ hit the airwaves until his tragic death less than two years later on “the day the music died”. The show features over 20 of Buddy Holly’s greatest hits including ‘That’ll Be The Day’, ‘Peggy Sue’, ‘Everyday’, ‘Oh Boy’, ‘Not Fade Away’, ‘Rave On’ and ‘Raining In My Heart’, plus Ritchie Valens’ ‘La Bamba’ and the big bopper’s ‘Chantilly Lace’.
As You Like It
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Aaron Thomas
Location: "The Dell" Mabel K. Whiteside Greek Theatre at Randolph College
The magic of the forest brings young lovers together... while confusing everyone else. Shakespeare's classic comedy As You Like It gets back to nature in true Endstation fashion, by marrying the natural beauty of Virginia with the poetic beauty of the theatre.
Escaping from their hostile family, Rosalind and her best friend Celia leave civilization for the fabled Forest of Arden. Dressed as brother and sister, with their trusted friend the fool as their only companion, they encounter a handsome wrestler, a banished outlaw and his merry men, and the true ruler of the forest... a king with his own antlers.
As Rosalind transforms into a young shepherd, she teaches Orlando – and us – how to fall in love in the way only Shakespeare can – with quick minds, sharp tongues, and pounding hearts.
Br'er Cotton
Written by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm
Directed by Whitney White
Location: Thoresen Theatre at Randolph College
A play researched and written in Lynchburg, Virginia by Terrance Chisholm as part of Endstation Theatre Company's Playwrights Initiative.
The play takes place in Lynchburg. The former site of a thriving cotton mill is now an impoverished neighborhood. Deeply affected by all the recent killings of young black men like himself, Ruffrino, a 14 year old, incites riots at school and online. More and more at odds with his mother and grandfather, the boy's anger grows beyond containment while the family home literally sinks into the cotton field, and no one seems to notice but him.
2017 SEASON
Million Dollar Quartet
Book by COLIN ESCOTT and FLOYD MUTRUX
Original Concept and Direction by FLOYD MUTRUX
Directed by Matt Silva
Musical Direction by Randall Speer
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
A Tuesday night, shortly before Christmas 1956, four legends, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley gathered at the Sun Record recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where they’d launched their careers. Word soon leaked out of an impromptu jam session. A newspaper man who was there wrote, ‘This quartet could sell a million.’ Soon, they were dubbed the Million Dollar Quartet. This was their only performance, a cultural flashpoint that caught rock ‘n’ roll at the moment of creation.
The Complete History of America (abridged)
By Adam Long, Austin Tichenor, and Jess Martin
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Location: Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest and Lexington's Lime kiln
From Washington to Watergate, yea verily from the Bering Straits to Baghdad, from New World to New World Order – The Complete History of America (abridged) is a ninety minute rollercoaster ride through the glorious quagmire that is American History, reminding us that it’s not the length of your history that matters – it’s what you’ve done with it!
The Whipping Man
By Matthew Lopez
Directed by Mace Archer
Location: The Aviary at Miller Park, Lynchburg
A confederate soldier returns home to the only family he has left: two of his former slaves, now emancipated. The secrets and lies contained in their family history come to light in an evening of total suspense.
2016 season
Hank Williams: Lost Highway
Written by Randal Myler & Mark Harelik
Directed by Matt Silva
Musical direction by Randall Speer
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
The spectacular musical biography of the legendary singer-songwriter frequently mentioned alongside Louis Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Duke Ellington, Elvis and Bob Dylan as one of the great innovators of American popular music. The play follows Williams' rise from his beginnings on the Louisiana Hayride to his triumphs on the Grand Ole Opry to his eventual self-destruction at twenty-nine. Along the way, we are treated to indelible songs like "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "Move It on Over" and "Hey, Good Lookin'," which are given fresh and profound resonance set in the context of Williams' life.
Much Ado About Nothing
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Location: Michels Plaza at Randolph College
One of Shakespeare's most notable works follows the mischevious doings of a nobleman and his games that result in an unlikely couple falling in love and the misconception of another character's death.
The Whole Bunch
Written by Joshua Mikel
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
In Partnership with Central Health, Live Healthy Lynchburg, Amazement Square, the Education Foundaiton, and the Junior League of Lynchburg, this show for yound audiences featured Gary Garlic, Betty Broc, and Russell Brussel and taught healthy nutrition habits.
2015 Season
Ring of Fire
Featuring the music of Johnny Cash
Conceived by William Meade and created by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Directed by Jimmy Maize
Location: Warehouse Theater at the Academy Center of the Arts
From the iconic songbook of Johnny Cash comes this unique musical about love and faith, struggle and success, rowdiness and redemption, and home and family. More than two dozen classic hits—including “I Walk The Line,” “A Boy Named Sue,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” and the title tune—performed by a multi-talented cast, paint a musical portrait of The Man in Black that promises to be a foot-stompin’, crowd-pleasin’ salute to a uniquely American legend! Though he is never impersonated, Johnny Cash’s remarkable life story is told through his music, climaxing in a concert that will both move and exhilarate!
Counter/Top
Written by Kirin McCrory
Directed by Walter Kmiec
A dark comedy revolving around a young couple from Charlottesville experiencing Lynchburg's Texas Inn and how class divide affects us all.
2014 Season
Two Gentlemen of Virginia
Written by Walter Kmiec and Jude Flannelly
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Who are the two gentlemen you may ask? A young Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. What better place for this production to spend its opening weekend but at Thomas Jefferson’s retreat home, Poplar Forest.
Our Town
Written by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner and Aaron C. Thomas
Location: Lynchburg Old City Cemetary
This incredible play about the beauty and ephemeral nature of life was inventively illuminated at Lynchburg's historic Old City Cemetery.
Always…Patsy Cline
Featuring the music of Patsy Cline
Written by Ted Swindley. Based on a true story.
Directed by Chad Larabee
Musical Direction by Phillip Kershner
Location: Lynchburg’s Academy Center of the Arts
Always…Patsy Cline was more than a tribute to the legendary country singer who died tragically at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963.
In Sweet Remembrance
Written by Tearrance Chisholm
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Commissioned by Endstation Theatre Company, Sweet Briar College, The Greater Lynchburg Community Trust, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, In Sweet Remembrance is a tribute to the significant role of the black community throughout Sweet Briar College’s history.
2013 Season
The Taming of the Shrew
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
The play opens as the student Lucentio arrives in Padua. He hears that the merchant Baptista has two daughters, but the younger, prettier daughter, Bianca, cannot be married before her strong-willed sister, Katherina. On seeing Bianca Lucentio falls in love with her and changes identities with his servant Tranio. Bianca already has two suitors, but doesn’t like either. The elderly Gremio hires Lucentio, disguised as a Latin tutor, to woo Bianca on his behalf, while Hortensio disguises himself as a musician to get access to her. Meanwhile Petruchio, a young adventurer from Verona, arrives to visit hisfriend Hortensio. He learns about Katherina and decides to woo her, aided by both Gremio and Hortensio.
Cymbeline
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Cymbeline is King of Britain; his first wife died, and he married a wicked queen. Imogen, Cymbeline's daughter is in love with Posthumus, but her stepmother wants Imogen to marry Cloten, the queen's son. When Imogen balks and secretly marries Posthumus, the king has him banished.
Violet: A Musical
Book & Lyrics by Brian Crawley Music by Jeanine Tesori
Based on the book “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts
Directed by Chad Larabee
Set in 1964 in the Deep South with the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Violet follows the emotional transformation of a young woman accidentally scarred by her father.
Unearthed
Book and Lyrics by Nick Lantz
Music by Scott Gendel
Directed by Kelly Bremner
An original piece set in the Blue Ridge foothills in 1900 and 2000, Unearthed follows the troubled lives of Alzy and Wade, who in their own time each discover the same strange man buried in the woods.
2012 Season
The Comedy of Errors
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
Sponsored by The Briar Patch Restaurant
A merchant of Syracuse, is condemned to death in Ephesus for violating the ban against travel between the two rival cities. As he is led to his execution, he tells the Ephesian Duke, Solinus, that he has come to Syracuse in search of his wife and one of his twin sons, who were separated from him 25 years ago in a shipwreck. The other twin, who grew up with Egeon, is also traveling the world in search of the missing half of their family. (The twins, we learn, are identical, and each has an identical twin slave named Dromio.) The Duke is so moved by this story that he grants Egeon a day to raise the thousand-mark ransom that would be necessary to save his life.
Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Music and Lyrics by ROGER MILLER
Book by WILLIAM HAUPTMAN
Adapted from the novel by Mark Twain
Directed by Chad Larabee
Sponsored by Amherst Milling Company
Macbeth
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
2011 Season
Good Good Trouble on Bad Bad Island
Written by Josh Mikel
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
Written for young audiences by Endstation’s resident playwright, Josh Mikel, this original play debuted at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2010.
Cry of the Mountain
Created & Performed by Adelind Horan
This one-woman show, which was conceived and was performed by the talented Adelind Horan, tackles the complex issue of mountaintop coal removal in the Appalachian Mountains.
Assassins
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Directed by Chad Larabee
This most American of musicals lays bare the lives of nine infamous historical figures, who forged their way into our history books for their assassinations (or attempted assassinations) of some of our American presidents.
Twelfth Night
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
Commonly regarded as Shakespeare’s best comedy, this hysterical play is filled with mistaken identities, romance, and a little cross-dressing. Endstation staged this hilarious comedy at Sweet Briar’s old train station, utilizing a stunning mountain vista as its backdrop. Each night, audiences enjoyed a beautiful sunset while watching the tale unfold.
2010 Season
Alice in Wonderland
Written by Madge Miller
Directed by Susan Myburgh
Alice in Wonderland was our first production for young audiences.
Hamlet
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
Our outdoor production of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Hamlet set in Civil War Virginia.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer & Jess Winfield
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
2009 Season
The Bluest Water: A Hurricane Camille Story
Bluest Water
by Jason Chimonides
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
The Bluest Water is a memory play that takes the audience from 1969 Nelson County to Nelson County in present day. The play’s fictional characters try to heal as individuals and as a community in the face of great loss.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William ShakespeareMidsummer
Directed by Ryan Clark
My Brother’s Knife: A Madison Heights Odyssey
by Josh Mikel
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
2008 Season
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Bill Kershner
2007 Season
The Tell-Tale Heart and The Mind of Poe (2007)
Written by Endstation Theatre Company
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
This exciting original production was created in workshop at Sweet Briar College and was performed in 2007 in Lynchburg, Amherst, and Charlottesville, Virginia. It was also featured as part of the 2007 Washington DC Capital Fringe Festival. The production took some of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories and poems and placed them in a Victorian psych ward of Endstation’s creation. This exciting piece of environmental theatre included vivid story telling, live percussion, and thrilled audiences across the Commonwealth.