Arts: Performance

ARTS THEATRE & PERFORMANCE

Castleton Festival

The Castleton Festival nurtures young talents, fosters the arts and reclaims the human spirit through integrative mentoring, worldclass performances and building of communities. Established by the late maestro, Lorin Maazel, and his wife, actress and teacher Dietlinde Turban Maazel, at their 550-acre estate on Castleton Farm Road, Castleton’s state-ofthe-art 140-seat Theatre House continues to offer a modest season of concerts, performances, recitals, chamber music programs, dance and theatrical events and opera as part of Castleton in Performance series. Currently they are streaming past performances. For details, visit castletonfestival.org or call 540-937-3454.

The Little Washington Theatre

The Theatre presents a wide variety of professional musical and dramatic performances, usually on weekends. There’s jazz, chamber music, Celtic music, classical piano recitals and an eclectic mix of other musical and classical theatre performances during each of the theatre’s January-to-June and September-to-December seasons. Favorites include the Cambridge American Stage Tour, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, celebrated folk and bluegrass bands and classic jazz ensembles. Reservations are recommended for most events at the Theatre, 291 Gay St., Washington. Call 540-675-1253, email info@ littlewashingtontheatre.com or visit LittleWashingtonTheatre.com

Rappahannock Association for Arts and Community

RAAC is the nonprofit organization behind many local art programs and events, including the Artists of Rappahannock Studio & Gallery Tour held every November, film screenings, a lecture series at the library, plays and more held at the RAAC Community Theatre, Soup 'n' Soul talks held in private homes and Mitchell Arts Fund grants awarded to new and aspiring local artists and projects. For more information, call 540-675-3193, email info@RAAC.org or visit raac.org. RAAC also sponsors the RAAC Community Theatre (below).

RAAC Community Theatre

The RAAC Community Theatre presents plays, readings, poetry, coffee houses and workshops. Long housed in a former country church, productions will move across Gay Street and be held at The Little Washington Theatre. For more information, visit raac.org (and click on Community Theatre) or call 800-695-6075.

All-volunteer since 1982, inspiring art & building community

Community Theater Fall Art Tour Concerts Claudia Mitchell Arts Fund Films, Talks & Talkbacks Writers’ Readings Soup & Soul School Collaborations

All net proceeds and contributions are channelled back into the community.