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Norfolk Theatre Festival

Welcome to a celebration of one of Virginia’s most theater-rich cities: Norfolk! Throughout the year, the city is home to vibrant, creative, engaged and engaging theater, produced by great local companies—performing in beautiful venues that include some of Norfolk’s architecturally and historically significant spaces--as well as spectacular touring Broadway companies.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Virginia Stage Company

MARCH 11-29

The Wells Theatre

PRIMARY TRUST

Norfolk State Theatre Company

MARCH 27-29, 2026

NSU BROWN MEMORIAL HALL MAINSTAGE THEATER

ALL THINGS EQUAL: THE LIFE AND TRIALS OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Virginia Arts Festival

MARCH 29

Attucks Theatre

Mrs. Doubtfire

Broadway Norfolk

MARCH 31-APRIL 5

Chrysler Hall

40 Whacks, the nightmare of Lizzie Borden

Core Theatre Ensemble

APRIL 9-12

Hunter House Victorian Museum

DEAR EVAN HANSEN

Norfolk State Theatre Company

APRIL 24-26, 2026

NSU BROWN MEMORIAL HALL MAINSTAGE THEATER

What Remains

ROŪGE

MARCH 19-APRIL 4 (Thursdays-Saturdays)

Hermitage Museum & Gardens

Love, George & Ira

Virginia Arts Festival

MARCH 28

Robin Hixon Theater, Clay & Jay Barr Education Center

Meow Meow

Virginia Arts Festival

MARCH 30-31

Robin Hixon Theater, Clay & Jay Barr Education Center

Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem

Virginia Stage Company

APRIL 8-26

The Wells Theatre

Trouble, Struggle, Bubble, & Squeak

Virginia Arts Festival

APRIL 10-11

Robin Hixon Theater, Clay & Jay Barr Education Center

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