About Productions:
SPARC’s productions provide development of pre-professional artistic skills in an education-focused environment. Students who are cast in a SPARC show will gain experience in navigating rehearsal and peformance environments while continuing to build and hone their craft. SPARC’s productions are directed and creatively led by a rotation of local professionals and our own expert full-time faculty.
SPARC’s annual productions also include a series of devised theatre pieces in our Original Works Season. These performances are created by the students who participate in the program whose work is being shared.
Audition-based performance opportunities are open to a variety of ages, depending on the show. Learn more about which ages are eligible for upcoming shows by reading our season announcement below.
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Our Current Season:
LEGENDS & LORE
What keeps us coming back to a story, telling it again and again in different mediums? Why are these tales so expansive across our lives? Is it the people? The story structure? Or is it the humanity, the way we can all find something representative of ourselves?
This season’s Legends & Lore theme will explore the larger-than-life characters and tales that shape the way we view the world and continue to teach us important lessons!

Hadestown: Teen Edition
By Anais Mitchell
DATES: November 15 to 17, 2024
DIRECTOR: Shanea N. Taylor
This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and Lady Persephone – Hadestown invites audiences on a hellraising journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love. Hadestown: Teen Edition is a full-length adaptation of Anaïs Mitchell’s international phenomenon Hadestown, modified for performance by teen actors for family audiences.
HADESTOWN: TEEN EDITION is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Corp. (www.concordtheatricals.com)

She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition
By Qui Nguyen
DATES: March 21 to 23, 2025
DIRECTOR: Heather Falks
She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. (www.concordtheatricals.com)

Nickelodeon’s The SpongeBob Musical: Youth Edition
DATES: SummerStarz Tour, July 14 to 18, 2025
AUDITIONS: Auditions coming February 15 & 16 2025;
Open to Rising 4th to 9th Graders.
When the citizens of Bikini Bottom discover that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home, SpongeBob and his friends must come together to save the fate of their undersea world. With lives hanging in the balance and all hope lost, a most unexpected hero rises up. The power of optimism really can save the world!
THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL: YOUTH EDITION is based on the series by Stephen Hillenburg and presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. (www.concordtheatricals.com)
Book by Kyle Jarrow, Original Songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady A, Cyndi Lauper, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants, T.I and Songs by David Bowie, Tom Kenny & Andy Paley. Additional Lyrics by Jonathan Coulton. Additional Music by Tom Kitt. Musical Production Conceived by Tina Landau. ©2023 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc. Created by Stephen Hillenburg.

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
DATES: July 18 to 20, 2025
DIRECTOR: Katrinah Carol Lewis
AUDITIONS: Auditions coming February 15 & 16 2025;
Open to rising 6th graders to graduating seniors.
As the half-blood son of a Greek god, Percy Jackson has newly discovered powers he can’t control, a destiny he doesn’t want, and a mythology textbook’s worth of monsters on his trail. When Zeus’s master lightning bolt is stolen and Percy becomes the prime suspect, he has to find and return the bolt to prove his innocence and prevent a war between the gods. But to succeed in his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the thief. He must travel to the Underworld and back; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and come to terms with the father who abandoned him.
Adapted from the best-selling book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan and featuring a thrilling original rock score, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is an action-packed mythical adventure “worthy of the gods” (Time Out New York).
THE LIGHTNING THIEF is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. (www.concordtheatricals.com) Book by Joe Tracz. Music & Lyrics by Rob Rokicki. Adapted from the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.
Original Works Season:
Spectrum shares the stories of the LGBTQ+ youth community. Live Art is an expression of SPARC’s commitment to accessibility and inclusivity, bringing neurodiverse and disabled youth to the mic. New Voices, our state-wide playwrighting competition, gives youth from across Virginia a chance to author their own one-acts that are then workshopped and brought to life with the help of Richmond professionals.
Check back throughout the year to learn more about these shows as they are developed!

Spectrum:
SPARC’s Queer Youth Ensemble, Spectrum, has live performances on February 28 and March 1, 2025.

Live Art:
SPARC’s performing arts program for students with and without disabilities has a live performance on Saturday, May 17, 2025.

New Voices for the Theater:
SPARC’s statewide playwrighting competition program, has an upcoming performance at the Festival of New Works July 26, 2025.
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