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Conversation: Meet a Person of the Past

Meet people of the past for some informal conversation or activity.

Evening Program: Cry Witch

Question witnesses, weigh evidence, and determine the guilt or innocence of "the Virginia Witch." Not appropriate for young children due to subject matter and intense emotion.

Evening Program: Revolutionary Points of View

Step back in time to the eve of the American Revolution. There are just as many opinions about war and independence as we hear about politics and religion today.

Evening Program: To Hang a Pirate

Join us in a trial of a Blackbeard crew member that occurred in Williamsburg in 1719. Hear the evidence and make a judgment!

Hands-On: Company of Comedians

Children of all ages! Join the Play House Players on the Duke of Gloucester Street to learn about Williamsburg’s theatre and participate in 18th-century entertainments.

Hands-On: Stories on Stage

In this interactive family program, tell the tale of brave St. George and the Dragon! Learn about items in the Art Museums collection connected to the story & then take the stage.

Performance: Christmas Entertainments

Join the musicians and storytellers of the Play House Players for some 18th-century holiday fun!

Performance: Coffee Cantata

Mrs. Charlton’s daughter is in love with the delicious juice of the coffee bean! A comedic ballad opera based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Coffee Cantata.”

Performance: Entertainments at the Play House

Join members of the Jug Broke Theatre Company as we celebrate the season and play and talk about the stories behind some of our favorite music of the Revolutionary Era.

Performance: Gulliver's Travels

Join us in a humorous retelling of Jonathan Swift's 18th-century novel Gulliver's Travels, which has been read all over the world since 1726.

Performance: Is Our Love Enough

Join Sarah and Lewis Hallam as they step through the trials of marriage, family, and the theatre in the 1770s

Performance: Lucinda and the Lottery

Based on a story from The Christmas Frolick (1775), Lucinda, a charming young heiress, devises a stratagem to test whose love is true.

Performance: Miss in Her Teens

David Garrick’s farcical comedy that follows Captain Loveit as he returns home to discover the love of his life has been courting two gentlemen in his absence.

Performance: Music of Queen Anne's World

The Jug Broke Theatre Co. explores tunes and songs that wove themselves through the fabric of this important transitional time in the early 18th century.

Performance: Of Christmas Past

A British servant, newly arrived in the colony, reflects on the holiday traditions he has left behind in the mother country.

Performance: Play House of Horror

Horror-as-entertainment was as popular in the 18th century as it is today, and in both centuries, it was fodder for fun as much as fear!

Performance: Sing and Merry Be!

Come celebrate the holidays as the families of 18th century Virginia did, with merriment and the music of the season!

Performance: Two Steps Forward…

Hear different stories of the people and events that shaped America’s early history through their own actions and choices.

Performance: Winter Revels at Pemberley

The halls of Pemberley have witnessed years of winter revelry and today, preparations for yet another ball are underway!

Street Theater: A Joyful Heart

Join the community of Williamsburg and witness how the free and enslaved pursue freedom and find joy in the Christmastide season.

Street Theater: The Alternative of Williamsburg

Join the residents of Williamsburg as they consider the cost of pursuing a new government. What sacrifices would you make in support of your government?