The Fringe
Central Virginia Fringe Festival
Come experience history as Endstation Theatre Company at Randolph College hosts the first Central Virginia Fringe Festival. Any art lover living around Lynchburg knows how lucky we are. The depth of talented artists is incredible. The scope of organizations and supporters is diverse and active. We here at Endstation Theatre Company want to celebrate our amazing community! The Central Virginia Fringe Festival will be a week-long community celebration centered around theatrical works and performances, June 14-21. 16 groups of student, community, and professionals will be performing 17 productions over 7 days! It will culminate in the world premiere opening of Whirlwind, the smash hit Endstation original from last season's Playwright's Initiative Reading Festival. Check out the artists below and purchase tickets!
Love Letters - Allison Daugherty and Paul Fitzgerald
The Central Virginia Fringe Festival's opening performance will be AR Gurney's Pulitzer nominated ode to life long friendships, romance and the lost art of letter writing, Love Letters. This touching, witty gem will be performed by two of Lynchburg's own: actress Allison Daugherty of Broadway, film and TV (Sex In The City, Madame Secretary) and actor/filmmaker Paul Fitzgerald of Broadway, film and TV - including series regular on Shonda Rhime's newest hit The Residence!
Saturday JUne 14, 2025 - 8:00 pm
RENT - Central Virginia Theatre Educators Association
Don't miss The Central Virginia Theatre Educators Association All Stars' rendition of RENT: School Edition. The CVTEA has assembled some of the most talented students and graduates of Central Virginia high schools to produce this 4-time Tony Award winning Broadway hit. Directed by Broadway choreographer, and Lynchburg's very own, Enrique Brown, this addition to The Central Virginia Fringe Festival is not to be missed!
Sunday June 15th, 2025 - 8:00 pm
Wednesday June 18th, 2025 - 5:00 PM
THursday June 19th, 2025 - 5:00PM
Friday June 20th, 2025 - 8:00 PM
Hand-Me-Down Love and The Nite Show Tonite! Live! From Hell!
Hand-Me-Down Love is a one-person show written and performed by Dyllan Hutchison. It follows Francis, a 22-year-old girl, while she cleans out her childhood bedroom. As she goes through her old belongings she is reunited with Jaque the Sock, a tattered with love French sock puppet who helps her reconnect with who she used to be, and come to terms with the change she is experiencing now.
Picture it…you’re dead. Next thing you know, you’re sitting in the live studio audience for Hell’s Hottest Talk Show, The Nite Show Tonight! Live! From Hell! Meet your host, Johnny Carcinoma, as he welcomes newly deceased souls to the afterlife night after night. To make matters worse, every night one lucky viewer gets a ticket to bypass the line and go straight to heaven. Join us for an adventure of BIBLICAL magnitude by Mason Absher
Monday June 16th, 2025 - 2:00 pm
midsummer Night’s Dream - Mended Wing Theatre Co.
The Central Virginia Fringe Festival welcomes Mended Wing Theatre Company! A grass-roots theatre company that tours small-cast productions of Shakespeare’s plays to schools, parks and other venues in the Southeast, Mended Wing presents its first installment of The Bard at The Fringe: A Midsummer Night's Dream:
One of Shakespeare’s most popular romantic comedies, this story begins on Midsummer’s eve, when four rebellious young lovers, a band of ambitious artisan players, and a feuding Fairy King and Queen all cross paths in a riotously enchanted forest. Audiences will enjoy magic and mischief in this hilarious and heart-felt Shakespearean favorite made relevant 400 years later by Mended Wing!
Monday JUne 16th, 2025 - 5:00 pm
9 to 5 - Renaissance Theatre Company
Renaissance Theatre Company is excited to be a part of The Central Virginia Fringe Fesetival with its rendition of 9 to 5. Based on the 1980 film and features a score by Dolly Parton. The story follows three office workers—Judy, Doralee, and Violet—who are mistreated by their sexist, egotistical boss, Franklin Hart Jr. After a series of events, the women secretly take control of the office, transforming it into a more efficient and empowering environment. As they work together to outsmart Hart, they form a strong bond and challenge the status quo. Filled with humor, catchy songs, and themes of empowerment, 9 to 5 celebrates friendship, justice, and the pursuit of happiness in the workplace.
MOnday JUne 16th, 2025 - 8:00 PM
Power up! - Morgan Cox
The Central Virginia Fringe Festival welcomes the new musical Power Up! by Morgan Cox! It tells the story of Sam and Jason, two people seeking to escape their fate. They find themselves in the mysterious realm known as The Grey, thanks to deals they made with the seemingly omniscient Gamemaster. In order to receive their reward, they must complete a series of levels and confront their past, present, and what comes next in order to take fate into their own hands.
Tuesday June 17th, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Director's Cut: Where Play Becomes Magic by Andrew Roblyer
IT’S NOT IMPROV. IT’S NOT A PLAY. IT’S SOMETHING ELSE.
Improv is made up on the spot. We start with a real script—then break it apart, rebuild it, and find something new.
A director. A cast. A single scene. One hour to make it unforgettable.
- Cut. Rework. Blow it up. Try again.
- Brilliant or disastrous? You decide.
- Every night, a different show. No do-overs.
It’s theatre on the operating table—mid-surgery.
You think you know how theatre is made? Think again.
- This isn’t a rehearsal. This is the art of directing, unleashed -
Central Virginia Fringe Festival marks the launch of a national fringe tour this summer for Director's Cut; come be a part of the origin story!
Tuesday June 17th, 2025 - 5:00 pm
King John - Mended Wing Theatre Co.
The Central Virginia Fringe Festival welcomes Mended Wing Theatre Company! A grass-roots theatre company that tours small-cast productions of Shakespeare’s plays to schools, parks and other venues in the Southeast, Mended Wing presents its second installment of The Bard at The Fringe: King John.
John, the younger brother of the late Richard I, is the king, and a savage one. His opponent is a boy, his nephew Arthur, supported by the King of France and the Duke of Austria. After Arthur falls into John’s hands, John plots to torture him. Arthur’s capture gives Louis, the Dauphin of France, the opportunity to lay claim to John’s crown. John’s nobles support Louis, but he schemes to betray them.
King John finds its hero in another figure: Sir Richard Plantagenet, an illegitimate son of Richard I. Although he has an appetite for war, he also has a strong conscience and speaks with trenchant irony.
Join Mended Wing as they make Shakespeare resonate 400 years later!
Tuesday June 17th, 2025 - 8:00 pm
Lost IN The FLames - Campfire Productions
Lost In The Flames is a new indie folk musical about love, loss, and ghosts written by Will Cloud, with a score by Will and Dylan Cloud.
A group of friends gathers in the woods to share stories, toast marshmallows, and stare at the stars overhead, dreaming of what their future might hold. It's their tradition, their home away from home. And, in this sacred space surrounded by trees and night sky, they discover that love is a strong enough bond to tie them together across time and space.
For The Central Virginia Fringe Festival, Lost In The Flames will be presented by Campfire Productions in a 90-minute concert format - the last step in the process before the show gets a fully-staged production in the fall.
Wednesday June 18th, 2025 - 2:00 pm
The LSO Jazz Trio - Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra
Get groovy at The Central Virginia Fringe Festival with an evening of jazz with The Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra. This three piece ensemble of bassist Bob Bowen, keys player Lew Taylor, and percussionist Jay Ware, is sure to have you snapping your fingers and tapping your toes, as one of Lynchburg's premier arts organizations presents: The LSO Jazz Trio.
Wednesday June 18th, 2025 - 8:00 pm
The Peak - Brett Womack
Part of The Central Virginia Fringe Festival, The Peak: a post-sisyphean tragedy in one act is a musical by artist Brett Womack that takes a spin on both the Greek myth of Sisyphus, as well as The Myth of Sisyphus by French philosopher Albert Camus. This four-person, one-act musical explores themes of eternity, memory, purpose, legend, the self, and rocks. The show features Sisyphus alongside a Greek Chorus of Philosophers and a musical style all of its own.
Thursday June 19th, 2025 - 2:00 pm
TBA - Little Town PLayers
Celebrating their 49th season, the Central Virginia Fringe Festival would like to welcome Bedford’s Little Town Players. This Central Virginian staple is dedicated to providing live theater productions for the education and enrichment of their community. Their contribution to the festival will be announced soon!
Thursday June 19th, 2025 - 8:00 pm
Right Past That Cloud, That’s Heaven and in a paper country
Endstation Theatre Company veteran, Tom Brown, brings The Central Virginia Fringe Festival Right Past That Cloud, That's Heaven. Inspired by actual events in Lynchburg, this performance tells the remarkable story of a man’s obsession to reunite with his dead parents. By the time he was eleven years old, both of Walter Steele’s parents had lost their lives to the relentless challenges of living in the Canadian wilderness in the 1850s. After his parents died, he began an incredible 30-year odyssey in search of his parents, which had an unexpected outcome right here in Lynchburg.
Actor, Playwright, Composer, and founder of Campfire Productions, Will Cloud, performs In A Paper Country by local playwright Adam Hughes - In a society that has outlawed maps, see how the resistance hangs on in isolated forests, how prisoners linger in cells, how parents seek the return of their loved ones, how the generals in charge justify their actions. This is In a Paper Country.
Friday June 20th, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Just Some Random Dude
Join The Central Virginia Fringe Festival in welcoming the incredible performer and recording artist, Just Some Random Dude (Roanoke, VA). He delivers an eclectic amalgamation of aggressive lyricism, outlandish and experimental delivery, and subject matter rooted in the reality of this generation. A native to the Tri-State area, he prides himself on being a mouthpiece of the everyman. Dude weaves his tales of personal experiences of fatherhood, marriage, employment, and the pursuit of a greater purpose; finding beauty in the pain, excitement in the mundane, and curiosity in the hard to explain. Contains explicit content not suitable for children.
Friday June 20th, 2025 - 5:00 pm
Whirlwind by Cris eli blak
This Endstation Playwrights Initiative original, will be the culmination of The Central Virginia Fringe Festival and the opening of our 2025 Summer Season!
Every sport is more than a game, and every moment of change is made possible by someone opening a door that was previously locked. This is the lesson learned by Grady, a high school tennis player with a chip on his shoulder who finds himself traveling to Lynchburg, Virginia, to be trained and coached by Dr. Robert Walter 'Whirlwind' Johnson. A medical doctor, coach, former college athlete, activist, respected community member - Dr. Johnson seems to have it all, and Grady wants to better himself to get to that level. Little does he know Dr. Johnson is trying to knock down a wall of his own, both in terms of fighting against the past and trying to forge into a future of tennis being an integrated sport.
Come experience local history in this ETC Playwright's Initiative World Premiere!