12 Angry Jurors
2025-03-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-03-30 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-05 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-04-06 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
RAAC Community Theatre’s much anticipated production of 12 Angry Jurors, directed by Hugh Hill, will be performed at the Little Washington Theatre on March 28 (7:30 pm), March 30 (3 pm), April 5 (7:30 pm) and April 6 (3 pm). Hill notes that the play brings to life the tense deliberations of a jury that has just heard a murder case. Despite their attitudes, pre-conceptions, and assumptions, they have to talk with and eventually listen to each other. The cast includes several RAAC Community Theatre veterans as well as several players who are new to the RAAC stage.
Tickets are $20. Make reservations here

RAAC Movie - A Complete Unknown
2025-04-18 19:00 - 21:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
RAAC’s next movie is A Complete Unknown–the 2024 biographical musical drama about iconic singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan.
Timothée Chalamet (who also produces) stars as Dylan, with Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Dylan’s girlfriend Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie, in supporting roles. Directed by James Mangold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jay Cocks, the film portrays Dylan through his earliest folk music success until the momentous controversy over his use of electric instruments.
Chalamet was awarded Best Actor by the Screen Actors Guild in this role. A Complete Unknown received multiple Academy Awards and Golden Globe nominations and was named one of the top-10 films of 2024 by the American Film Institute and the National Board of Review, the latter of which also awarded Fanning Best Supporting Actress.
The RAAC film is free. Donations are welcome to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

RAAC Talk - Ken Grossinger
2025-04-30 17:30 - 19:30 | Rappahannock County Library, 4 Library Road, Washington, VA, 22747, United States
The next RAAC talk will feature Ken Grossinger, who has published Art Works: How Organizers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together. Some artists stand apart from hot-button issues of the day, but throughout history, others have deployed their creativity to push for reforms they support. Art can expose injustice, offer commentary or mobilize public awareness. Grossinger points to Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative, which brought together lawyers historians, artists and architects to construct a cluster of museums in Montgomery, Alabama, to delve into, and dramatize, the legacies of slavery and racism. In various cities, hundreds of murals mark the 2020 murder of George Floyd. In Art Works, Grossinger writes that “if it hadn’t been for music, the civll rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.”
There is no admission charge.

Auditions - Patsy Cline
2025-05-04 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-05-05 18:30 - 20:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
Always… Patsy Cline is a musical play that tells the story of long-time Patsy Cline fan/friend Louise Sager. As Louise recounts her memories of Patsy, her tale is punctuated with some of Cline’s most popular songs. We are auditioning for the role of Louise, a woman with energy and charisma who can animate Louise’s story. Louise sings along here and there, but does not have a trained singing voice.
If you would like to audition please complete an audition form here.

Summer Concert - Gold Top County Ramblers (Date Change)
2025-05-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Sperryville River District, River Lane, Sperryville, VA, 22740, United States
Due to heavy rain and flooding in the area, the kick-off show of the Sperryville Summer Concert Series has been postponed until May 22 at 6PM.
A popular Sperryville band returns to the Summer Concert stage. Band members include: Adam Rogers on mandolin and vocals; Jesse Rogers on bass; Tucker Rogers on resonator guitar; Matt Davis on banjo; James Reid on drums; and Evan Childress on fiddle.

RAAC Movie - La Chimera
2025-05-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
This film has surprised and delighted audiences on multiple fronts: great acting by Josh O’Connor and Isabella Rossilini; fabulously designed tomb-raiding scenes in Tuscany, grubby commerciality amidst antiquity collectors, and magical timelines that glide between past and present. O’Connor plays a renegade British archeologist who is haunted by a lost love, while edging towards a new attachment, amidst the antics of a group of ‘tombaroli’ who dig up beautiful, long-buried objects. The acclaimed Italian-language film lives up to its mysterious title, which is linked to a creation “that takes parts or aspects of different kinds of things.”
The film comes with subtitles. Admission is free, but RAAC appreciates donations to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

No Ordinary Person
2025-06-06 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-06-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
RAAC’s annual No Ordinary Person show brings autobiographical stories told by our Rappahannock neighbors to the stage at the Little Washington Theatre on Friday, June 6 (7:30 pm) and Sunday, June 8 (3 pm). There will be a talkback with the storytellers after each show.
This year’s storytellers include: John Fox Sullivan, Monica Kelly, Lily Strange, and Philip Ward
Click here to purchase tickets ($20 in advance, or $25 at the door if seats are still available).

RAAC Movie - Anora
2025-06-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
Anora is a 2024 American romantic comedy-drama film, written, directed and produced by Sean Baker. It stars Mikey Madison as Anora, a stripper from Brooklyn, New York who marries the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch, Vanya, played by Mark Eydelshteyn. The Cinderella fairytale story quickly becomes threatened, taking many twists and turns, once the wedding news reaches Russia, and Vanya’s parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Anora swept the Academy Awards, winning Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. It also won the prestigious Palme D’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The RAAC film is free, but donations are welcome to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

Summer Concert - The Jess Estienne Band
2025-06-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Sperryville River District, River Lane, Sperryville, VA, 22740, United States
Postponed until June26th because of weather
New to the summer concert stage this year, with deep roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains, including in Rappahannock, this band of poetic storytellers will enchant you with their eclectic songs of life, love and wonder, mixing a variety of genres including rock-country blues. Band members include: Jess Estienne—lead singer, song writer, rhythm guitarist; Chris Bishop—back-up vocals, lead guitarist; Rappahannock’s own, Aury Holtslag—drummer; Logan Unger—bassist; Justin Carver—pedal steel.

Summer Chorus and Drama Performance
2025-06-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Rappahannock County High School, 12576 Lee Hwy, Washington, 22747, United States
RAAC’s two-week Summer Chorus and Drama program for 4th through 12th graders culminates in a free performance for the entire community at Rappahannock County High School. This is a joy-filled experience not to be missed. The beautiful, energetic music these students master in this short time is incredible, and their one act play will delight.

Summer Concert - Bobby G & The Heavies
2025-07-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Sperryville River District, River Lane, Sperryville, VA, 22740, United States
​Back by popular demand, this favorite regional rhythm and blues band returns for their fifth year. Band members include: Robert (Bobby “G”) Glasker on vocals and guitar; Anders Drew on vocals and guitar; Mike (Coy) Groves on vocals and guitar; George Glascoe on bass guitar; and Paul Norris on drums.

RAAC Movie - I'm Still Here
2025-07-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
RAAC’s July movie is the 2024 drama, I’m Still Here, based on the 2015 autobiography written by Brazilian novelist and screenwriter, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, about his father–Rubens Paiva–a dissident politician who went missing, and was murdered during Brazil’s military dictatorship in 1971. The film depicts the impact of Paiva’s disappearance on his family’s life, especially on the writer’s mother, Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), an activist coping with the loss of her husband, Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello).
Among the film’s many accolades, Torres became the first Brazilian, South American and Portuguese-speaking actor to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture–Drama. The film also won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film, becoming the first-ever Brazilian-produced film to win an Academy Award.
The RAAC film is free, but donations are welcome to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

RAAC Movie - Emilia Perez
2025-08-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
RAAC’s next movie is the Oscar-winning film, Emilia Pérez. The film follows a Mexican cartel leader–played by Karla Sofia Gascón–who aims to disappear and transition into a woman with the help of a lawyer–played by Zoe Saldaña.
Among its numerous accolades, the film won Oscars for Best Supporting Actress (Saldaña) and for Best Original Song (“El Mal”), and Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) and Best Foreign Language Film. Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Mark Ivanir, and Edgar Ramirez also appear in starring roles.
he RAAC film is free, but donations are welcome to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

Summer Concert - Hawlin Callin’
2025-08-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Sperryville River District, River Lane, Sperryville, VA, 22740, United States
This ensemble is comprised of Rappahannock musicians who have played together for almost a half a century. Their songbook draws from a deep well of blues, reggae, backwoods country, Americana, classic rock, and a little bit of bossa nova. Band members include: Robert “Smiggy” Smith on guitars and vocals; Vincent Day on guitar, mandolin and vocals; Dinah Pherson on vocals; Andrew Carter on percussion; and Terry Waggener on bass.

RAAC Movie - Sing Sing
2025-09-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
RAAC will screen the critically acclaimed, award-winning film, Sing Sing on September 5th.
Directed by Greg Kweder, this inspiring story is based on the real-life “Rehabilitation Through the Arts” program at Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison. The film is about a group of inmates who find purpose and whose lives are transformed through the power of artistic expression, when they form a theater group and stage an original comedy. The stellar cast includes professional actors Colman Domingo, Sean San Jose and Paul Raci, alongside many real-life formerly incarcerated men who were themselves alumni of Sing Sing’s arts program, including Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin.
Named one of the top ten films of 2024, numerous accolades include National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor (Domingo), Academy Awards Best Actor nomination for Domingo, and British Academy Awards nominations for Best Actor (Domingo) and Best Supporting Actor (Maclin).
The RAAC film is free. Donations are welcome to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

Macbeth
2025-09-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
Students from Cambridge University in England will once more travel to Rappahannock County, this year offering a performance Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the Little Washington Theatre.
RAAC is sponsoring the performance, which is 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 various colleges and universities with stops at high schools and venues like the Little Washington Theatre on the way.
Thckets are $20 and can be purchased here.

Summer Concert - Mandalele and Back Road Revels
2025-09-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Sperryville River District, River Lane, Sperryville, VA, 22740, United States
Rappahannock County favorite folk-rock trio, Mandalele & Friends features three singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalists–Lorraine Duisit, Robert “Smiggy” Smith, and Wendi Sirat. The trio blends three-part harmonies with rockin’ grooves, sparkling strings and toe-tappin’ rhythms to create music infused with a potpourri of global traditions and inspiration from the Appalachian Mountains where the band was formed.

Special guests for this concert include The Backroad Revels -Eclectic roots-rock originals from Rappahannock songwriters Evan Espinola, Lorraine Duisit and Jack Coon. Inspired by life in this county and drawn from jazz, folk, reggae, rap and blues, their heartfelt songs are brought to life by renowned local guitarist Smiggy Smith and drummer Aury Holtslag.

Always ... Patsy Cline
2025-09-19 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-09-20 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-26 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-09-27 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-09-28 15:00 - 17:00 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
Our next theatre production is a Patsy Cline tribute with stories from her life and songs performed with a live band. There will be 6 performances. To purchase tickets click reserve.
Friday, Sept 19, 7:30pmSaturday, Sept 20, 3:00pmSunday. Sept 21, 3:00pmFriday, Sept 26, 7:30pmSaturday, Sept 27, 7:30pmSunday, Sept 28, 3:00pm

RAAC Talk - Lee Miller's Photography
2025-10-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
Rappahannock author and art scholar Jane Livingston will explore Lee Miller’s photography during this free RAAC program.
Rappahannock movie-goers last year enjoyed Lee, the acclaimed film featuring American photographer Lee Miller’s exploits as a war correspondent in Europe for Vogue magazine. Miller’s artistic story will be further explored by Livingston in a talk and slide presentation. The former curator and associate director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Jane Livingston authored Lee Miller: Photographer, the definitive book on Miller’s shaping contributions to modern photography. The book accompanied a 1989-1990 exhibit that toured seven cities in the U.S.
Miller’s life in Paris in the 1920s revolved around her artistic and romantic relationship with Man Ray, the American artist who became a leading figure in the Surrealist and Dadaist movements. Miller’s works during those years, and later, became some of the most memorable images of the era, when photography was evolving as both an art form and a communication medium for news.
Livingston will share insights into this pivotal moment for modern art, along with observations about the life and psychology of Lee Miller herself.
Hearing assistance will be available.

Queen Lear
2025-10-10 19:30 - 20:30 | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
This hour-long adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear uses the original poetic language, with the narrative trimmed and shaped to reflect our interest in the themes of family dynamics among a mother and her daughters, the disbursal of generational wealth, aging in a female body, the blind expectations of privilege, and loyalty and love of chosen and blood family. It features six actors playing multiple characters, original music, and striking ensemble work. The show was created and is performed by Cottage Industry, an all female troupe based in Charlottesville. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Click here to reserve seats.
