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In the same comic spirit of Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay --Fading stars of the 1950s. This play takes us back in time to the heyday of touring as the couple is playing in rep performances of Private Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in Buffalo, New York. While on the brink of a disastrous split-up caused by George’s roaming eye for a young ingénue, they receive word that Frank Capra is coming to town to see their matinee which might give them one last shot at stardom. Unfortunately, everything that could go wrong does go wrong, aided by a visit from their daughter’s clueless fiancé and hilarious uncertainty about which play they’re actually performing.  Much of the confusion caused by Charlotte’s old and deaf stage-manager mother who hates every bone in George’s body.

Performed in the Main Stage Theatre in Artis Center

October 7, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
October 9 - 11, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
October 12, 2025 at 2 p.m.

Ticket Prices:

General Admission: $10
Radford University Faculty and Staff: $6
Radford University students: Free
Senior Discount: $6
Group Rates (10+): $6

Tickets for all Moon Over Buffalo performances are available online, by calling 540-831-5289, or during the week of the show, at the Theatre and Cinema Box Office, 252 Artis Center.

This fast-paced story is loaded with interesting characters, loads of fun stage action, and important messages about standing up for what you believe and not running away from problems. Lily finds a pair of matching stones along the bank of a brook and weaves them into her unique flower shoes, but if the legend of the stones is true, Lily may be putting herself and her village in grave danger. An evil Baron also knows the power of the magic stones and confiscates one of Lily’s shoes as she flees to the Dark Forest. There, she enlists the help of some animal friends, but before they can make a plan, they’re kidnapped by a goblin army. Can Lily and her friends keep the Baron from obtaining the other stone, destroying her village, and stealing the goblins’ treasure?

Performed in the Main Stage Theatre in Artis Center

November 15, 2025 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Ticket Prices:

General Admission: $8
Children 12 and under: $4
Radford University Faculty and staff: $6
Radford University students: Free
Group rates (10+): $6 each

Tickets for all Lily and the Magic Stones performances are available online, by calling 540-831-5289, or during the week of the show, at the Theatre and Cinema Box Office, 252 Artis Center.

This play, set in 1953 and 1954, centers on May and Raleigh who have been married for ten years and who have moved from Kentucky to Siesta Key, Florida. Their comfortable life is disrupted by the arrival of their mothers and other family members who bring a variety of family pressures into their once quiet home, as well as the surrounding post-war social changes and newly activated civil rights movement. Hutton and the play explore how these events challenge our main characters’ beliefs while forcing them to consider unconventional solutions to finding peace in a changing world. 

*This play contains mature themes: discrimination and adult language.

Performed in the Blackbox Theatre in Artis Center

February 18 - 21, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
February 22, 2026 at 2 p.m.

All tickets are FREE.  
Tickets for all Gulf View Drive performances are available online, by calling 540-831-5289, or during the week of the show, at the Theatre and Cinema Box Office, 252 Artis Center.

Little Shop of Horrors is a humorous sci-fi horror musical reflective of the popular B-films of the 1950s-60s that features a popular pop/rock score by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Seymour Krelborn is a meek and dejected floral shop assistant who happens upon a strange plant, that he affectionately names “Audrey II” after his wannabe girlfriend Audrey. Little does he know that this strange plant will develop a soulful R&B voice, potty mouth, and an unquenchable thirst for HUMAN BLOOD.  Just when it’s too late, Seymour discovers Audrey II’s extra-terrestrial origins and its true drive for world-domination.

*This musical contains mature themes: sexual content and adult language.

Performed in the Main Stage Theatre in Artis Center

March 31, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
April 2 – 4, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
April 5, 2026 at 2 p.m.

Ticket Prices:

General Admission: $10
Radford University faculty and staff: $6
Radford University students: Free
Senior Discount: $6
Group rates (10+): $6 each

Tickets for all Theatre and Cinema performances are available online, by calling 540-831-5289, or during the week of the show, at the Theatre and Cinema Box Office, 252 Artis Center.

What will they think of next? Well, you might just find out when you join the Directing II class for their final projects. This eclectic evening of one acts is always smorgasbordrd of theatrical delights.

Performed in the Blackbox Theatre in Artis Center

April 22 -25, 2026 at 7 p.m.

All tickets are FREE. 
Tickets for all Theatre and Cinema performances are available online, by calling 540-831-5289, or during the week of the show, at the Theatre and Cinema Box Office, 252 Artis Center.