RAAC

Sleeping Beauty
2023-12-02 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-08 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-12-09 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-10 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
RAAC’s Christmas play this year is a playful and funny adaptation by Mickey Coburn of the Sleeping Beauty story. Full of adorable sparkly fairies, the show also features the regular characters—a beautiful princess, a gallant prince, a jester/narrator, evil fairy and her henchman, the royal court and others.
Tickets can be purchased at Eventbrite

RAAC Movie - Love Actually
2023-12-15 19:30 - 21:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
RAAC’s Movie Night at the Little Washington Theatre continues December 15 with a special holiday offering: Love Actually, a beloved 2003 comedy which for many fervent fans has become a seasonal ritual. And it will be free, a holiday gift from RAAC.

Auditions for Steel Magnolias
2024-01-13 14:00 - 17:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
The RAAC Community Theatre will be staging a production of Steel Magnolias on April 26,27, 28 & May 3, 4, 2024. We will be holding auditions on Jan. 13 & 14 (2 – 5 pm) at the Little Washington Theatre. The cast will include the following roles:
1 female 40s to 50s2 females 20 to 251 female 50s2 females 60sNo male cast members.
If you plan to audition for Steel Magnolias please follow this link to complete an audition form.

A Rappahannock Songwriters’ Showcase: The Stories Behind the Songs
2024-01-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
RAAC is pleased to announce the return of Songwriters in the Round — The Stories Behind the Songs. Last January marked the first songwriters event thanks to an idea spearheaded by local musician Ben Mason. After rave reviews, RAAC has decided to make this an annual event! The January 13th lineup will include Rappahannock’s own Kiaya Abernathy, Paul and Cheryl Reisler, Lorraine Duisit and Ben Mason performing their original music and sharing their stories behind the songs, stories rooted here. Tickets are $23.18 and can be purchased at Eventbrite.

RAAC Movie - Air
2024-02-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
RAAC’s next movie offering at The Little Washington Theatre will be AIR, a critically acclaimed sports and business drama directed by Ben Affleck that unfurls the thrilling story of how Nike won Michael Jordan’s endorsement of the company’s now famous sneaker. Matt Damon plays the unstoppable force inside Nike who pulls off the long-shot endorsement, which changes the company’s fortunes and its status across America. Michael Jordan is the inspiration at the center of the film, but his part is pure presence. His remarkable mother, brilliantly played by Academy Award winner Viola Davis, holds the audience with her uncompromising determination to see her son’s sentiments honored. Affleck himself plays Nike’s bold, but fretful, CEO, and gorgeous basketball footage is woven in strategically. Anyone interested in sports, business, and families— along with possible and impossible dreams—will love this film. Critics also loved this movie–Golden Globe nominee for Best Actor (Matt Damon) and Best Motion Picture. Free Admission. Donations welcome to offset RAAC’s production costs.

RAAC Movie - Anatomy of a Fall
2024-03-15 19:30 - 21:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
This sensational and engrossing film won the Palme d’Or, top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and ran away with the top European Film Awards for best film, best director, best actress, best screenwriter for 2023.
The movie propels its audience through a mystery that begins with Samuel dropping to his death from the upper window of a French chalet he shares with his wife Sandra and their eleven-year old son Daniel. The immediate and obvious question is whether Samuel jumped or was pushed, but the courtroom drama that follows leads us into other mysteries. One involves Samuel and Sandra’s conflicted relationship; another is about why she writes and why he wishes to but doesn’t; then there is a running subtext about language itself; and finally, there’s young Daniel. This movie challenges its viewers in how they understand and believe things. As noted by The New Yorker, “we can’t help wondering: when, and under what emotional pressure, does a memory shift from being a reliable account of something to a story that we tell ourselves about what we wish had occurred?”
Anatomy of a Fall is R rated and there are some subtitles. The movie will be free, with donations welcome to help offset production costs.

Improv Workshop
2024-03-30 13:00 - 16:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
The popular improv group, Playback Theatre, will be leading an improv workshop for people interested in learning their unique improv techniques. Boomie Pedersen, a talented actress and long-time member of the Playback troupe based in Charlottesville will help lead the workshop.
To register for the 3 hour improv workshop contact Patty Hardee at pahardee@gmail.com.

Improv Performance
2024-03-30 19:30 - 21:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
The performance features the Playback Theatre actors listening to true stories from audience members. The “teller” then casts the actors in different roles and they use all their creative resources to immediately play the story back to the audience. The resulting “re-enactments” are often poignant as well as funny, finding the heart and the funny bone embedded in each tale.
“We’re pleased to be bringing back Playback,” says RAAC Theatre Artistic Director Patty Hardee. “Before covid, the group led a well-attended workshop that drew people interested in learning Playback’s unique improv techniques. That evening they demonstrated in performance the range and fun of Playback improv.” Boomie Pedersen, a talented actress and long-time member of the Playback troupe based in Charlottesville will help lead the workshop. Last September in the Little Washington Theatre Boomie performed the one-woman show “The Man Who Eats Books,” a play by the late Julie Portman.
“Playback brings to the stage stories and story fragments suggested by the audience,” says Boomie. “The workshop introduces the participants to the forms used to play back stories, starting with the simplest one-word story and moving to fully casted longer stories. Everyone has stories and feelings and those are really the only two requirements for Playback, along with a spirit of adventure and a ‘yes, and’ attitude.”
Tickets are $17.85 and can be purchased at Eventbrite.

Steel Magnolias
2024-04-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
RAAC presents Robert Harling’s play about the bond a group of women share in a small-town Southern community and how they cope with the death of one of their own. Tickets can be purchased at Eventbrite
The performances will be:

Friday April 26th at 7:30 PM
Saturday April 27th at 7:30 PM
Sunday April 28th at 3:00 PM
Friday May 3rd at 7:30 PM
Saturday May 4th at 7:30 PM

Steel Magnolias
2024-04-27 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-04-28 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-05-03 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-05-04 19:30 - 21:30 | VA

Movie - The Taste of Things
2024-05-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
RAAC will screen The Taste of Things, Friday, May 17 at 7:30 PM at The Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA.
The film, part of RAAC’s revitalized movie program, is set in 1889, and tells a moving story of a cook and the gourmet she works for. Based on a 1924 novel and directed by Tran Anh Hung, the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, 2023, and has been nominated for multiple awards. Juliette Binoche and Benoit Maginel beautifully handle the interplay of an unconventional romance woven into a celebration of gorgeously prepared food.
The movie is free and RAAC appreciates donations to cover production costs.

Movie - One Life
2024-06-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
Sir Anthony Hopkins stars in this true story about British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, where kindness is king. In his role as an aging Winton, Hopkins reminisces about his past, when he was a 29-year-old British stock broker travelling to Prague in 1938 and quickly sizes up the catastrophe set to unfold under Nazi occupation. Working with two officials from the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, he manages to get hundreds of mostly Jewish children out on trains before the borders close. The film brings back the fraught moment facing Europe, and Hopkins superbly shows the effects of age, and regret for those he couldn’t save.
The movie is free, with donations welcome to cover production costs.

No Ordinary Person
2024-06-22 19:30 - 21:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
No Ordinary Person, RAAC’s annual performance of autobiographical stories told by Rappahannock friends and neighbors, will return to the Little Washington Theatre on June 22 (7:30 pm) and June 23 (3 pm). This year’s storytellers are Barney O’Meara, Jane Coon, Caroline Anstey and Chris Doxzen.
Tickets are $17.85 and can be purchased at Eventbrite. Tickets will be $20 at the door.

No Ordinary Person
2024-06-23 15:00 - 21:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
​No Ordinary Person, RAAC’s annual performance of autobiographical stories told by Rappahannock friends and neighbors, will return to the Little Washington Theatre on June 22 (7:30 pm) and June 23 (3 pm). This year’s storytellers are Barney O’Meara, Jane Coon, Caroline Anstey and Chris Doxzen.
Tickets are $17.85 and can be purchased at Eventbrite. Tickets will be $20 at the door.

Auditions for 12 Days of Christmas
2024-08-24 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-08-25 13:00 - 16:00 | Old RAAC Theatre, 310 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22747, United States
RAAC will be holding auditions for our annual holiday production, 12 Days of Christmas, on August 24 and 25. If you are interested in auditioning please complete the audition form by clicking here.

Julius Caesar
2024-09-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-09-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
The play will be presented by CAST, the Cambridge American Stage Tour, a troupe composed of Cambridge students who have been crossing the Atlantic annually for over two decades to bring the works of British playwrights to our shores. This diverse group of undergraduate and postgraduate students travels up and down the East Coast, visiting colleges from the University of Florida to Harvard, with stops at high schools and venues like the Little Washington Theatre on the way.
Tickets are $20 plus fees and can be purchased at Eventbrite.

RAAC Movie - American Fiction
2024-09-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
American Fiction is a thought-provoking and funny film directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright. The American Film Institute ranked this movie as one of the ten best for 2023; it also won five nominations at the 96th Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Wright, and best adapted screenplay for Jefferson. Wright sensitively plays Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a literary-minded African American writer who is pressed to chase greater commercial success by churning out cliche-filled works depicting Black suffering at its rawest. Exasperated, he composes a hoax novel filled with rappers, crack, and deadbeat dads, but the story grows more complicated when the book becomes a soaring success. American Fiction shines a light on questions of race, class and trend-driven publishing. Yet it isn’t a lecture, but a drama involving complex characters whom movie audiences care about.
There is no ticket charge, but donations are welcome to offset production costs.

Endgame
2024-09-27 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-09-29 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-04 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-10-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
The RAAC Community Theatre will be presenting a production of what Samuel Beckett called his masterpiece, Endgame. Performances are scheduled for September 27 and 29, and October 4 and 5 at the Little Washington Theatre (291 gay Street). The show on Sunday, Sept. 29 will be a matinee (3 pm); the other three shows will be at 7:30 pm.
After an exceptional production of Waiting for Godot in 2019, director Mike Mahoney and the Godot team are taking on Beckett once again. The cast includes Godot actors Hugh Hill and Andy Platt, along with Mike King (recently seen as the male lead in Our Town), and long-time RAAC thespian Sallie Morgan. Platt and another Godot veteran, Stephanie Mastri, are assisting with direction.
Literary critic Harold Bloom called this play the most original work of literature of the 20th century, and this production promises to deliver wit, pathos, and thought-provoking ambiguities.
Tickets for Endgame may be purchased through Eventbrite ($15 plus fees; $20 at the door).

RAAC Talks - Judd Swift
2024-10-03 19:00 - 21:30 | Rappahannock County Library, 4 Library Road, Washington, VA, 22747, United States
Rappahannock author Judd Swift will describe what it’s like to arrange trips for American presidents, in a talk at the Rappahannock County Library.
Swift was an advance man for presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. In a conversation with journalist Andy Alexander, Swift will share engaging stories from his recent book, My Presidential Life. This RAAC Talk is free and open to all.
