
Broadway vet debuts as JMU faculty director in musical by former student
Broadway veteran Jacob Brent makes his debut as faculty director in the JMU School of Theatre and Dance’s Shakespeare musical Twelfth Night.

Broadway veteran Jacob Brent makes his debut as faculty director in the JMU School of Theatre and Dance’s Shakespeare musical Twelfth Night.

If you walk into the Music Resource Center on an average day, you hear an eclectic array of genres echoing from all the different rooms. A hip-hop dance class takes place upstairs, someone makes beats in one of the studios, a rock band practices, and a girl records an R&B track in the vocal booth.

The Wayne Theatre in downtown Waynesboro presents six performances of The Bridges of Madison County Musical on May 3-5 and 10-12. Showtimes are 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, with 3 p.m. Sunday matinees.

Join the Wayne Theatre for the next show in its Broadway series directed by Hank Fitzgerald – Hairspray the Musical – for eight shows starting Feb. 22.

ShenanArts presents the Tony-Award winning murder mystery comedy Curtains, by the creators of Cabaret and Chicago, John Kander and Fred Ebb.

Broadway actress and guest director Nancy Anderson along with a cast of 34 theatre, music and musical theatre students will boldly take the American musical where it has never gone before.

The next installment of the 2018-19 Broadway Music Series brings “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” to the Wayne Theatre stage Nov. 8-11 and 15-18.

The next installment of the 2018-19 Broadway Music Series brings “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” to the Wayne Theatre stage November 8-11 and 15-18.

James Madison University students from the School of Theatre and Dance and School of Music will venture “into the woods” to perform “this century’s best musical.”

A new study was released this month that aimed to uncover the musician that each state misses the most. As it turns out, Michael Jackson ranked first for the state of Virginia.
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