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 2026-2027 Season:
Listen Now
Young people don’t need to be given voices; they have them. They just need to be heard. This season of mainstage shows explores young characters whose voices are building strength, growing from a whisper to a shout.
It examines the challenges that come with reclaiming your voice. It celebrates the triumph of taking the mic and sharing your truth. It mourns the consequences of voices that are silenced. And it encourages resilience on a thorny path.
SPARC is also proud to offer devised performances, where students’ own thoughts and voices are front and center in a series of original works. Join us this season to support incredible young talent and, of course, listen to what they have to say.
Once Upon a One More Time (High School Edition)
Based on the music performed & recorded by Britney Spears; Book by Jon Hartmere
DATES: November 6 – 15, 2026
DIRECTOR: Paul S. Major
Powered by the chart-topping hits of the undisputed Princess of Pop, Britney Spears, Once Upon A One More Time turns our favorite fairytales upside down with a clever twist! When a fairy godmother goes rogue and plops copies of The Feminine Mystique in the laps of classic heroines, the damsels embark on a quest to rewrite their stories and redefine “happily ever after.”
Once Upon A One More Time weaves 23 of Britney Spears’ smash singles—like “Crazy,” “Oops!…I Did It Again,” “Circus,” “Lucky,” and “Toxic”—into “a big, modern, musical dance party, with Britney’s beating heart at its core.” (ABC News) License this jukebox fantasy come true!
Once Upon a One More Time is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Radium Girls
By D.W. Gregory
DATES: February 26 – 28, 2027
DIRECTOR: Heather Falks
In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. Written with warmth and humor, Radium Girls is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece for 9 to 10 actors, who play more than 30 parts—friends, co-workers, lovers, relatives, attorneys, scientists, consumer advocates, and myriad interested bystanders. Called a “powerful” and “engrossing” drama by critics, Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science.
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of
Woodstock, Illinois
School of Rock: Young Actors Edition
Based on the Paramount movie by Mike White
Book by Julian Fellowes; Lyrics by Glenn Slater
New Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
DATES: SummerStarz Tour, July 6-9, 2027
DIRECTOR: Laine Wagner
Rock got no reason, rock got no rhyme… You better get me to school on time! Dewey Finn is a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn an extra bit of cash by posing as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. There he turns a class of straight-A pupils into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band. But can he get them to the Battle of the Bands without their parents and the school’s headmistress finding out? Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock: Young Actors Edition is a loving testimony to the transformative power of music.
SCHOOL OF ROCK: YOUNG ACTORS EDITION is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com
Into the Woods
DATES: July 16-18, 2027
DIRECTOR: Allison Beckett
James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone’s favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, yet relevant, piece… and a rare modern classic. The Tony Award-winning book and score are both enchanting and touching.
The story follows a Baker and his wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King’s Festival; and Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk. When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a Witch’s curse, the two set off on a journey to break the curse. Everyone’s wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later with disastrous results.
Into the Woods is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Original Works Season:
Each season, SPARC produces a series of youth-written, devised shows with a focus on centering the voices of the participants in our programming.
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 March 12-13, 2027.

Live Art: Element
SPARC’s performing arts program for students with and without disabilities has a live performance of this year’s show, Live Art: Element on Sunday, May 23, 2027.

New Voices for the Theater:
SPARC’s statewide playwrighting competition program, has an upcoming performance at the Festival of New Works June 27, 2027.
NEW this year: Two New Voices plays will return to Richmond for a Pop-Up Premiere with Firehouse Theatre on July of 2027.
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