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 2025-2026 Season:
WRITE YOUR OWN ENDING
What if someone told you that you could choose the outcome of your own story? What kind of ending would you write for yourself? What would you do to make sure you’re happy with the story you’ve told?
This season’s shows emphasize the importance of authenticity in all things. The characters in these stories strive for their own happy ending by standing by their values. They choose to lead from a place of courage and compassion in the face of adversity, no matter how difficult that may be.
From a fairground in limbo, to the steps of a palace; from the far reaches of space to the comfort of a favorite summer camp, this season is sure to inspire us to live authentically through stories we can be proud to share.
Ride the Cyclone: High School Edition
DATES: November 14-22, 2025
DIRECTOR: Chewie Lo Moore
Music, Book & Lyrics by Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond
In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other — the chance to return to life. This popular musical is a funny, moving look at what makes a life well-lived!
Ride the Cyclone: High School Edition is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC. (www.broadwaylicensing.com)
A Wrinkle in Time
Adapted by Morgan Gould from the novel by Madeleine L’Engle
DATES: February 27 – March 1, 2026
Meg Murry and her little brother, Charles Wallace, have been without their scientist father, Mr. Murry, for five years, ever since he discovered a new planet and used the concept known as a tesseract to travel there. Joined by Meg’s classmate Calvin O’Keefe and guided by the three mysterious astral travelers known as Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the youth brave a dangerous journey to a planet that possesses all of the evil in the universe. This faithful, ensemble-driven adaptation of the beloved novel masterfully retells the story in a fresh and enduring way.
Disney’s Camp Rock the Musical
DATES: SummerStarz Tour, July 6 – 10, 2026
SPARC’s SummerStarz program brings theatre to private and public performance spaces throughout Richmond for FREE to the community.
A classic story of rivalry and power, Disney’s Camp Rock The Musical opens with Mitchie and her friends arriving at Camp Rock, ready to spend another summer jamming out and having the time of their lives. But the new, flashy Camp Star across the lake now threatens Camp Rock’s very existence. To keep the doors open, Mitchie steps up, rallies her fellow Camp Rockers and gets them into top shape for the ultimate showdown!
Disney’s Camp Rock The Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Book by Robert L. Freedman & Faye Greenberg
Based on the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam written byDan Berendsen and Karin Gist & Regina Hicks
and on characters created by Karin Gist & Regina Hicks and Julie Brown & Paul Brown
Songs from Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam by Adam Watts & Andy Dodd; Kara DioGuardi & Mitch Allan; Matthew Gerrard & Robbie Nevil; Jeannie Lurie, Aris Archontis & Chen Neeman; Dapo Torimiro & Lyrica Anderson; Antonina Armato, Tim James & Thomas Sturges; Toby Gad, Lyrica Anderson & Kovasciar Myvette; Antonina Armato, Tim James, Aaron Dudley & Steve Rushton; Jamie Houston; Adam Anders, Nikki Hassman & Peer Astrom; Kara DioGuardi & Greg Wells
Additional Lyrics by
Robert L. Freedman & Faye Greenberg
Music Adapted, Arranged and Orchestrated by David Lawrence
COPYRIGHTS:
© Disney. All Rights Reserved.
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version)
DATES: July 24 – 26, 2026
The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale is reborn with the Rodgers & Hammerstein hallmarks of originality, charm and elegance. Originally presented on television in 1957 starring Julie Andrews, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella was the most widely viewed program in the history of the medium. Its recreation in 1965 starring Lesley Ann Warren was no less successful in transporting a new generation to the miraculous kingdom of dreams-come-true, and so was a second remake in 1997, which starred Brandy as Cinderella and Whitney Houston as her Fairy Godmother.
CINDERELLA is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. www.concordtheatricals.com
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
New Book by Douglas Carter Beane
Original Book by Oscar Hammerstein II
Orchestrations by Danny Troob
Music Adaptation & Arrangements by David Chase
Additional Lyrics By Douglas Carter Beane, David Chase and Bruce Pomahac
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 January 23-24, 2026.
Live Art:
SPARC’s performing arts program for students with and without disabilities has a live performance on Saturday, May 16, 2026.
New Voices for the Theater:
SPARC’s statewide playwrighting competition program, has an upcoming performance at the Festival of New Works June 27, 2026.
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