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Spring Performance Guide

Curious about what’s playing this spring? Fredericksburg is packed with live theater over the next few months, from classic musicals to family shows and comedy nights. Here’s your guide to this spring’s can’t-miss performances:

Stage Door Productions – Puffs (Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic)

  • Dates: March 6-7, 2026

  • Venue: Allstate Community Theater

  • Details: Fredericksburg Performing Arts Institute and the Stage Door Productions Youth Actors have partnered with JR Productions, who has produced the comedic Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic – a hilarious parody of the Harry Potter series, telling the story from the perspective of the overlooked, loyal, badger-loving “Puffs” (Hufflepuffs) instead of the heroes, following outsider Wayne Hopkins and his friends Megan and Oliver as they navigate school, friendship, and existential crises, proving that even non-chosen ones have epic journeys of their own, with a strong focus on finding belonging and purpose.

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Stage Door Productions – Stand Up Comedy

  • Dates: Monthly

  • Venue: Allstate Community Theater

  • Details: Come out to the Allstate Community Theater in downtown Fredericksburg, where Stage Door Productions presents Stand-Up Comedy Night a production of Callback Comedy Productions. Callback Comedy works with comics who have performed on ABC, NBC, FOX, PBS, NETFLIX, AMAZON PRIME VIDEO, Channel 4 UK, Drybar Comedy, and more; as well as at regional and national Comedy Clubs, including: DC Improv, Stand Up NYC, Helium Philadelphia, DC Drafthouse, Comedy Loft, Comedy Zone, Arlington Drafthouse, and the Capital One Vault, it’s sure to be a night of laughs!

Riverside Center for the Performing Arts – Little Women

  • Dates: March 18th – April 26th, 2026

  • Venue: Riverside Center for the Performing Arts

  • Details: Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday with this Civil War period story of love and family that stands the test of time based on Louisa May Alcott’s American classic, Little Women. Follow the adventures of sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March. Jo is trying to sell her stories for publication, but the publishers are not interested. Her friend, Professor Bhaer, tells her that she has to do better and write more from herself. Begrudgingly taking this advice, Jo weaves the story of herself and her sisters and their experience growing up in Civil War America. Little Women embodies the complete theatrical experience, guaranteeing a performance filled with laughter, tears and a lifting of the spirit. Songs like “Sometimes When You Dream,” “More Than I Am,” and “Take a Chance on Me” will make you smile. 2005 Tony Winner for Best Performance by an Actress by Sutton Foster. Running for 6 weeks, including a special student matinee:

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Fredericksburg Theater Ensemble – Murder on the Nile

  • Dates: March 20th – March 29th, 2026

  • Venue: Allstate Community Theater

  • Details: Kay Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth, and a new husband, she embarks on a honeymoon voyage down the Nile. Fatal circumstances await when the idyllic surroundings are shattered by a shocking and brutal murder. Under scrutiny is a multitude of memorable passengers, all with a reason to kill. The tension and claustrophobia builds, as a shocking and audacious conspiracy is laid bare.

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UMW Theatre – Henry V

  • Dates: April 9 – 19th, 2026

  • Venue: Klein Theater

  • Details: History and drama collide in this beautifully penned work that explores the rise of a brazen and intrepid young king as he leads his ragtag army to claim the French crown. Honor, duty, and the burdens of kingship are brought to the forefront in many of Henry’s inspiring appeals and in William Shakespeare’s rich and vivid portrayal of the Battle of Agincourt. One of Shakespeare’s most famous history plays, unmatched in capturing the essence of heroism and the complexities of war, Henry V is as much an unforgettable and timeless story of transformation and triumph as a cautious reminder of the costs of reckless ambition.

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Stage Door Productions – Dr. Jason and Mother Hyde

  • Dates: April 10 – 12th, 2026

  • Venue: Allstate Community Theater

  • Details: Stage Door Productions is proud to present an original comedy written and directed by Bill Green. DR. JASON HYDE, a pharmacy professor and heir to the huge Hyde-a-Nut chocolate candy factory in Middleboro, has just returned from a trip to Scotland. There, he found in university archives a document that was the source of Robert Louis Stevenson’s story, but Stevenson changed two things. The drug is herbal–readily concocted today–and, rather bringing out evil, brings to the surface the hidden side of any personality. Jason is having an affair with VICKI, a brash legal secretary engaged to BRAD, an extraverted bouncer. GRANGER–Jason’s shy, nerdy lab assistant–likes Vicki. LIONEL–for years Jason’s father’s mild-mannered vice president–is secretly in love with Jason’s widowed MOTHER and now runs Hyde-a-Nut. The company is threatened by a hostile German takeover that everyone is determined to reject. Jason’s transforming potion, injected into chocolates and scotch miniatures, sets off a madcap series of near-disasters. Revealed to each other, Vicki and Granger fall in love, but the transformed Mother Hyde is angry and greedy, bent on selling Hyde-a-Nut. The German lawyer turns out to be TONI, an ambitious young woman from Atlanta. A plot by Vicki and Granger to kidnap her disguised as Canadian candy operatives fails, and Mother Hyde is on the brink of selling Hyde-a-Nut when a spiked chocolate transforms Toni into a sweet hippie who refuses the deal and proposes that they all go camping instead. Mother Hyde persuades Lionel to retire and live with her in Florida, leaving Dr. Jason to run the company. Granger and Vicki are in love. Toni, Brad, and Jason go camping.

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Stage Door Productions – Twelfth Night – And Now for Something Completely Different (Monty Python Inspired)

  • Dates: April 17 – 26th, 2026

  • Venue: Allstate Community Theater

  • Details: Fredericksburg Performing Arts Institute and the Stage Door Productions Youth Actors put a Rom-Com spin on William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night a comedy about mistaken identity, love triangles, and disguise, following shipwreck survivor Viola who, thinking her twin brother Sebastian is dead, disguises herself as a male page, “Cesario,” for Duke Orsino; but complications arise when Orsino’s beloved, Countess Olivia, falls for Cesario, while Viola secretly loves Orsino, leading to hilarious chaos that resolves with the real Sebastian’s arrival and confusion, culminating in multiple marriages and revelations. Performed by the seasoned youth actors ages 12 to adult, the audience will follow the narrator and actors who may from time to time, break that fourth wall at the stage edge.  Award Winning Comedic Director Ray Manfredi (Man Eating Chicken, Play On, Over the River and Through the Woods, A Christmas Carol, Clue, and Hand to God) brings a different style of comedy to this classic tale, as both the audience and cast compete to see who laughs the most.

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Riverside Center for the Performing Arts – Guys and Dolls

  • Dates: May 13, 2026 to June 28, 2026

  • Venue: Riverside Center for the Performing Arts

  • Details: America’s 250th Birthday celebration continues with an all-American classic considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy. It ran for 1,200 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1950 and won a total of 5 Tony Awards with and the revival winning 4 Tony Awards in 1992. It’s an oddball romantic comedy celebrated for its humor and storytelling. Travel from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City. Show title TBA Running for 7 weeks, including a special student matinee.

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Fredericksburg Theater Ensemble – Picasso at the Lapin Agile

  • Dates: May 22nd – May 31st, 2026

  • Venue: Allstate Community Theater

  • Details: This long-running Off Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, the popular actor and screenwriter plays fast and loose with fact, fame, and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the century’s achievements and prospects, as well as other fanciful topics, with infectious dizziness. Bystanders, including Picasso’s agent, the bartender and his mistress, Picasso’s date, an elderly philosopher, Charles Dabernow Schmendiman, and an idiot inventor introduce additional flourishes of humor. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark-haired singer, time-warped in from a later era.

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CYT Fredericksburg – The Little Mermaid

  • Dates: May 29 – 31, and June 5-7, 2026

  • Venue: King George High School

  • Details: Based on one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved stories and the classic animated film, Disney’s The Little Mermaid is a hauntingly beautiful love story for the ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner, Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater and a compelling book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs, including “Under the Sea,” “Kiss the Girl” and “Part of Your World.” Ariel, King Triton’s youngest daughter, wishes to pursue the human Prince Eric in the world above, bargaining with the evil sea witch, Ursula, to trade her tail for legs. But the bargain is not what it seems, and Ariel needs the help of her colorful friends, Flounder the fish, Scuttle the seagull and Sebastian the crab to restore order under the sea.

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