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That’s right! Our ever-popular UMW Theatre Road Trips are back this season! Join us for exceptional performances in Washington, D.C.
We make it easy for you! Park your car at duPont Hall and board our charter bus where your host will talk with you about the production you are about to experience as you travel to the theatre. The bus will drop you at the front door and will return to pick you up. On the way home, your host will lead you and your fellow theatregoers in a post-performance discussion about the show.
Come along for the ride—going to the theatre in Washington could not be easier!
Damn Yankees
by Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, and Douglass Wallop • October 19 @ 2pm • Arena Stage
One of America’s most beloved musicals is coming back, dusted off and spit-shined for a new generation. All the elements that made it famous are there: a diehard love of baseball, one man’s fateful (and hilarious) pact with the Devil, and Broadway’s sexiest femme fatale…but gently re-tooled for its first major revival in the 21st Century. Featuring iconic songs like “Whatever Lola Wants” and “Who’s Got the Pain?,” this production immerses audiences in a whirlwind of temptation, ambition, love, and sacrifice in this bold new adaptation by Will Power and Pulitzer and Tony Award winner Doug Wright, with additional lyrics by Tony Award winner Lynn Ahrens, and directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Sergio Trujillo.
Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions
by Paula Vogel • November 30 @ 2 PM • Studio Theatre
The latest semiautobiographical work from Pulitzer Prize-winner and DMV native Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) traces 40 years and five evictions in a very funny play about a very unhappy family. Siblings Martha and Carl are barely teens for their first eviction in 1962, growing up gay in the out-sized orbit of their glamorous, exacting, alcoholic mother. The family’s odyssey through the DC suburbs takes them from one roach-infested apartment to another, and from the Sexual Revolution to the Disco Era to ’90s New Age. A Broadway hit last season, Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions is wry, savage, and surprisingly tender, an exorcism as well as a ritual of forgiveness.
Guys & Dolls
by Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling, and Abe Burrows • December 7 @ 2pm • Shakespeare Theatre Company
The oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York just got busted and Nathan Detroit needs cold hard cash to get it up and running again. Enter high-roller Sky Masterson, who Nathan wagers can’t get a date with the straightlaced Sarah Brown, a Salvation Army missionary trying to save them all from sin. Directed by Washington National Opera Artistic Director Francesca Zambello and choreographed by Joshua Bergasse (Smash, Bull Durham), dance the night away to “Luck Be a Lady,” “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat,” “A Bushel and a Peck,” and more classic tunes in the must-see show of the holiday season.
Inherit the Wind
by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee • March 22 @ 2pm • Arena Stage
Based on the real-life Scopes “Monkey” Trial, this electrifying courtroom drama pits two towering legal minds against each other in a small-town battle over science, religion, and the right to think freely. As the town becomes a stage for national attention, personal conviction clashes with public opinion in a trial that transcends its time. Inherit the Wind, the American classic by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is a searing, deeply human portrait of a country still wrestling with the cost—and courage—of progress.
When you purchase a UMW Theatre Road Trip ticket, you are securing a ticket to the performance, but you will not receive your ticket to the performance until we arrive at the theatre. This is part of taking the worry out of the trip for you. We will be responsible for everything until you arrive. You will also receive an email (typically on Monday or Tuesday) prior to that week’s Road Trip. If you do not receive an email by Wednesday, please email Taryn Snyder at tsnyder3@umw.edu to be sure we have the correct information. We will be using the email address that you use when you purchase your tickets, so please be sure this is an email address you check regularly. We are committed to making this as easy as possible for you!
Specific information will be relayed to Road Trippers via email about departure and return times from the theatre.
Buses usually depart Fredericksburg at 12 pm (posted times are show start times), and return no later than 6 pm.
We will keep you posted on all information as your trip approaches.
FredTix Convenience Fees and Handling Fees apply to Road Trip tickets.
All sales are final. No refunds. No exchanges.
