We have been making professional and innovative theatre in Central Virginia for 19 years!
Check our some of our past productions below.
2023 Season
Buried Deep: The Lynchburg Pools at Riverside Park
Written by Josh Brewer
Directed by Dennis Whitehead Darling
Location: Riverside Park Historic Pool Site
As fireworks fill the Independence Day evening, members of the Lynchburg community gather to revisit events from sixty years prior that sent shockwaves through not only their town, but their nation as well. Through dramatization and readings from the historical record, the group recalls the tumultuous period from the pools’ desegregation to their being closed and, ultimately, filled with earth. This remount of our 2022 original production toured into Lynchburg City high schools, as wells, did a week-long run at one of the original buried pool sites in Riverside Park.
T-Room…The Musical
Libretto by Dina Gregory and Music by Rosabella Gregory
Directed by Darnell Pierre Benjamin
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
Lynchburg’s iconic Texas Inn is the setting for this raucous and poignant musical about the mysterious alchemy of a late-night eatery. Run by sharp-tongued matriarch, Miss Betty, and frequented by regulars like the kindhearted Brooks, the Texas Inn, aka the “T-Room,” draws folks of all stripes to its stainless steel counter. But when two UVA professors, Maddy and Khent, roll up one evening in their shiny new Tesla, they get more than just some local color and an inexpensive meal. Instead, thanks to a pair of feisty young locals, Liza and Gunner, their lives are forever changed. With a live band embodying the spirit of the Texas Inn, this musical celebrates the communal spaces that bring people together from all backgrounds and walks of life.
Treasure Island
Written by Bryony Lavery
Directed by Stephanie Holladay Earl
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
A new twist on an old classic, Treasure Island is a nonstop piratical adventure sure to keep patrons of all ages on the edges of their seats.
2022 Season
Buried Deep: The Lynchburg Pools
Written by Josh Brewer
Directed by Dennis Whitehead Darling
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
As fireworks fill the Independence Day evening, members of the Lynchburg community gather to revisit events from sixty years prior that sent shockwaves through not only their town, but their nation as well. Through dramatization and readings from the historical record, the group recalls the tumultuous period from the pools’ desegregation to their being closed and, ultimately, filled with earth.
Bye Bye Birdie
Written by Michael Stewart
Directed by Cory James Dunn
Musical Direction by Vince DiMura
Location: Warehouse Theater at Academy Center for the Arts
2021 Season
2021 Festival Season
Location: University of Lynchburg Pavilion
This summer extravaganza featured John Manzari, Tappin’ in the ‘Burg; Vince di Mura, Fran Prisco, and Sage Melcher in Songs for the Ages; Robert Dubac’s THE MALE INTELLECT: AN OXYMORON?; David Haught & Skip Robinson in Howlin’ at the Moon, Jenna Pastuszek in Get Happy: A Judy Garland Tribute; Taylor Rodriguez’ A Tribute to the King; and Desiree Roots’ Ladies of Jazz. It was also the inaugural presentation of our Homegrown Talent Competition!
2020 Season - Cancelled
2019 Season
Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie
By Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom
Based on the book by Mitch Albom
Directed by Matt Silva
Location: The Miller Center
The Bluest Water
Conceived by Jason Chimonides and Geoff Kershner
Written by Jason Chimonides
Directed by Aaron C. Thomas
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
In August of 1969, Hurricane Camille, the second-most intense hurricane on record to hit the United States, brought devastation to Nelson County. THE BLUEST WATER follows survivors Jared and Liz, fifty years later, as they try to figure out what happened to a friend who lost his family to the storm, and as they remember the dead and try to heal from their own wounds. On the 50th anniversary of Hurricane Camille's landfall, The Bluest Water honors and remembers those who lost their lives and the first responders who risked their lives to protect those who survived.
My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra
Created by David Grapes and Todd Olson
Directed by Matt Silva
Musical Direction by Vince di Mura
Location: Warehouse Theatre at the Academy Center of the Arts
2018 Season
Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story
Written by Alan Janes
Directed by Matt Silva
Musical Direction by Chris Wren and Sarah Godwin
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
As You Like It
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Aaron Thomas
Location: "The Dell" Mabel K. Whiteside Greek Theatre at Randolph College
Br'er Cotton
Written by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm
Directed by Whitney White
Location: Thoresen Theatre at Randolph College
A play researched and written in Lynchburg, Virginia by Terrance Chisholm as part of Endstation Theatre Company's Playwrights Initiative.
The play takes place in Lynchburg. The former site of a thriving cotton mill is now an impoverished neighborhood. Deeply affected by all the recent killings of young black men like himself, Ruffrino, a 14 year old, incites riots at school and online. More and more at odds with his mother and grandfather, the boy's anger grows beyond containment while the family home literally sinks into the cotton field, and no one seems to notice but him.
2017 SEASON
Million Dollar Quartet
Book by COLIN ESCOTT and FLOYD MUTRUX
Original Concept and Direction by FLOYD MUTRUX
Directed by Matt Silva
Musical Direction by Randall Speer
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
The Complete History of America (abridged)
By Adam Long, Austin Tichenor, and Jess Martin
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Location: Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest and Lexington's Lime kiln
From Washington to Watergate, yea verily from the Bering Straits to Baghdad, from New World to New World Order – The Complete History of America (abridged) is a ninety minute rollercoaster ride through the glorious quagmire that is American History, reminding us that it’s not the length of your history that matters – it’s what you’ve done with it!
The Whipping Man
By Matthew Lopez
Directed by Mace Archer
Location: The Aviary at Miller Park, Lynchburg
2016 season
Hank Williams: Lost Highway
Written by Randal Myler & Mark Harelik
Directed by Matt Silva
Musical direction by Randall Speer
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
Much Ado About Nothing
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Location: Michels Plaza at Randolph College
The Whole Bunch
Written by Joshua Mikel
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Location: Thoresen Theater at Randolph College
In Partnership with Central Health, Live Healthy Lynchburg, Amazement Square, the Education Foundaiton, and the Junior League of Lynchburg, this show for yound audiences featured Gary Garlic, Betty Broc, and Russell Brussel and taught healthy nutrition habits.
2015 Season
Ring of Fire
Featuring the music of Johnny Cash
Conceived by William Meade and created by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Directed by Jimmy Maize
Location: Warehouse Theater at the Academy Center of the Arts
Counter/Top
Written by Kirin McCrory
Directed by Walter Kmiec
A dark comedy revolving around a young couple from Charlottesville experiencing Lynchburg's Texas Inn and how class divide affects us all.
2014 Season
Two Gentlemen of Virginia
Written by Walter Kmiec and Jude Flannelly
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Who are the two gentlemen you may ask? A young Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. What better place for this production to spend its opening weekend but at Thomas Jefferson’s retreat home, Poplar Forest.
Our Town
Written by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner and Aaron C. Thomas
Location: Lynchburg Old City Cemetary
This incredible play about the beauty and ephemeral nature of life was inventively illuminated at Lynchburg's historic Old City Cemetery.
Always…Patsy Cline
Featuring the music of Patsy Cline
Written by Ted Swindley. Based on a true story.
Directed by Chad Larabee
Musical Direction by Phillip Kershner
Location: Lynchburg’s Academy Center of the Arts
Always…Patsy Cline was more than a tribute to the legendary country singer who died tragically at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963.
In Sweet Remembrance
Written by Tearrance Chisholm
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Commissioned by Endstation Theatre Company, Sweet Briar College, The Greater Lynchburg Community Trust, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, In Sweet Remembrance is a tribute to the significant role of the black community throughout Sweet Briar College’s history.
2013 Season
The Taming of the Shrew
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
Cymbeline
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Violet: A Musical
Book & Lyrics by Brian Crawley Music by Jeanine Tesori
Based on the book “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts
Directed by Chad Larabee
Set in 1964 in the Deep South with the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Violet follows the emotional transformation of a young woman accidentally scarred by her father.
Unearthed
Book and Lyrics by Nick Lantz
Music by Scott Gendel
Directed by Kelly Bremner
An original piece set in the Blue Ridge foothills in 1900 and 2000, Unearthed follows the troubled lives of Alzy and Wade, who in their own time each discover the same strange man buried in the woods.
2012 Season
The Comedy of Errors
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
Sponsored by The Briar Patch Restaurant
Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Music and Lyrics by ROGER MILLER
Book by WILLIAM HAUPTMAN
Adapted from the novel by Mark Twain
Directed by Chad Larabee
Sponsored by Amherst Milling Company
Macbeth
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
2011 Season
Good Good Trouble on Bad Bad Island
Written by Josh Mikel
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
Written for young audiences by Endstation’s resident playwright, Josh Mikel, this original play debuted at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2010.
Cry of the Mountain
Created & Performed by Adelind Horan
This one-woman show, which was conceived and was performed by the talented Adelind Horan, tackles the complex issue of mountaintop coal removal in the Appalachian Mountains.
Assassins
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Directed by Chad Larabee
This most American of musicals lays bare the lives of nine infamous historical figures, who forged their way into our history books for their assassinations (or attempted assassinations) of some of our American presidents.
Twelfth Night
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
Commonly regarded as Shakespeare’s best comedy, this hysterical play is filled with mistaken identities, romance, and a little cross-dressing. Endstation staged this hilarious comedy at Sweet Briar’s old train station, utilizing a stunning mountain vista as its backdrop. Each night, audiences enjoyed a beautiful sunset while watching the tale unfold.
2010 Season
Alice in Wonderland
Written by Madge Miller
Directed by Susan Myburgh
Alice in Wonderland was our first production for young audiences.
Hamlet
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
Our outdoor production of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Hamlet set in Civil War Virginia.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer & Jess Winfield
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
2009 Season
The Bluest Water: A Hurricane Camille Story
Bluest Water
by Jason Chimonides
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
The Bluest Water is a memory play that takes the audience from 1969 Nelson County to Nelson County in present day. The play’s fictional characters try to heal as individuals and as a community in the face of great loss.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William ShakespeareMidsummer
Directed by Ryan Clark
My Brother’s Knife: A Madison Heights Odyssey
by Josh Mikel
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
2008 Season
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Bill Kershner
2007 Season
The Tell-Tale Heart and The Mind of Poe (2007)
Written by Endstation Theatre Company
Directed by Geoffrey Kershner
This exciting original production was created in workshop at Sweet Briar College and was performed in 2007 in Lynchburg, Amherst, and Charlottesville, Virginia. It was also featured as part of the 2007 Washington DC Capital Fringe Festival. The production took some of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories and poems and placed them in a Victorian psych ward of Endstation’s creation. This exciting piece of environmental theatre included vivid story telling, live percussion, and thrilled audiences across the Commonwealth.