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Announcing Our 2024-25 Season!

Four plays, including a new production of one of RTP’s biggest hits, will take the stage at Richmond Triangle Players for its 2024-25 season, as the company celebrates its 32nd year as one of the Commonwealth’s most acclaimed cultural arts institutions, and the longest-operating LGBTQ+ theatre in the mid-Atlantic region.

“This season brings back some old favorites in new productions, as well as the Virginia premiere of one of the most acclaimed musicals in recent history,” said RTP artistic director Lucian Restivo.

“We are especially pleased to be producing that musical, A Strange Loop¸ in partnership with our colleagues at Firehouse Theatre. Now more than ever, it is important to us that we work together as a community to keep the rich theatrical landscape of Richmond alive.”

“As always,” he continues, “the focus of every RTP productions is rooted in staying true to its mission, presenting unique — sometimes provocative, sometimes challenging, and sometimes hilarious –- works of theater.”

The 2024-25 Mainstage Season

Smart, sharp, and hysterically funny
5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche by Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood
September 11 – October 5, 2024

A very campy Christmas celebration to make your spirits bright
With Bells On and Who’s Holiday! by Darrin Hagan and Matthew Lombardo
November 13 – December 22, 2024

What happens when dreams fall just out of reach
Which Way to the Stage by Ana Nogueira
April 23 – May 17, 2025

Presented in partnership with Firehouse Theatre
Winner of Every Best Musical Award in New York!
A Strange Loop book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson
June 25 – August 2, 2025

And on RTP’s Spotlight Cabaret Series

Seth Rudetsky: Seth’s Big Fat Broadway Show!
August 15 – 16, 2024

August Hundley: Li’l Guy in a Big Ol’ World
October 18 – 19, 2024

Georgia Rogers Farmer: Perfect Pair
March 27-29, 2025

Nationally Renowned Performer To Be Announced
May 30-31, 2025

Complete descriptions of all the performances and events can be found here.

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In addition to its own series of plays and events, RTP will host productions by 5^th Wall Theatre and the Critical Race Theatre Project, among others.

For over three decades Richmond Triangle Players has transformed the community’s conversations about diversity and inclusion through the production of LGBTQ+-themed works

A nonprofit, professional theatre company founded in 1993, RTP takes pride in being the leading performing arts company in the region that produces high quality transformational programming rooted in queer experiences and supports the development of queer artistry.

RTP is the only professional theatre company in the Richmond area – and the longest continually-operating one in the entire Mid-Atlantic region — which expressly and regularly serves the LGBTQ+ community. While other local theatres occasionally produce plays with LGBTQ+ content, only Triangle Players has made an ongoing commitment to queer artists, issues, audiences and community support.

RTP opened its theatre at 1300 Altamont Avenue in historic Scott’s addition in early 2010. RTP’s Robert B. Moss Theatre is a 4000-square foot performing arts facility accommodating flexible seating arrangements for up to 93 patrons. A graceful lobby, which includes a generous bar, catering capability and box office, adjoins the theater, which features both traditional and cabaret-style seating.

The building has fully ADA-compliant access, parking, and comfortable restrooms.

In addition to its own series of plays and events, RTP will host productions by 5th Wall Theatre and the Critical Race Theatre Project, among others.

For more information, please visit RTP’s web site at www.rtriangle.org or call the Ticket Hotline at 804-346-8113.

Harmony and Hope for Habitat 2024

Sunday, July 28 and Monday, July 29, 2024; 7:00 pm

Come celebrate the talent, flair and vibrancy of our community! Harmony and Hope for Habitat will showcase a variety of talent in a fundraiser for the 2024 PRIDE Build conducted by Richmond Habitat for Humanity. We are preparing to entertain you with song, dance, art, drag, comedy and MORE in a night sure to engage your mind, your heart and your funny bone.

Performances will take place at RTP. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door.

To secure your ticket(s), click on the link below.

Harmony & Hope for Habitat – Variety Show Tickets

Announcing Our 2026-27 Season!

This season, RTP celebrates its 34th year as one of Virginia’s most acclaimed cultural institutions and the longest-operating LGBTQ+ theatre company in the mid-Atlantic region. Our new season features five extraordinary productions, including an acclaimed play by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a Tony Award-winning musical.

“In a world that can feel increasingly uncertain — especially for theatres like ours — we felt called to be louder, prouder, and more unapologetically ourselves,” said RTP Artistic Director Lucian Restivo. “This season is filled with stories about love and laughter, glamour and grit, resilience and joy.”

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The 2026-27 Mainstage Season

September 16th – October 10th, 2026
BLKS by Aziza Barnes

Three young black women in New York City navigate intimacy, identity, and self-medication (drinking, smoking, sex) to cope with feeling miserable and unheard. When sh*t goes down, your girls show up. Waking up to a shocking and personal health scare, Octavia and her best friends, June and Imani, go on a crusade to find intimacy and joy in a world that couldn’t give a f*ck about them or their queer blk feelings.

November 11th – December 19th, 2026
The Real Housewives of the North Pole by David Cerda

The North Pole is in trouble. Santa and all the North Pole power players are indicted for fraud and it’s up to the women to try and save their families from financial ruin. But how? Years of wealth and privilege have left them with a lot of designer clothes and jewelry, but little else. Enter Andy Cohen from the Bravo network, who whisks them into reality TV stardom. Another rollicking holiday romp from the author of last season’s smash The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes (Holiday Edition)!

February 10th – March 6th, 2027
Messy White Gays by Drew Droege

It’s Sunday morning in Hell’s Kitchen. Brecken and Caden have just murdered their boyfriend and stuffed his body into a Jonathan Adler credenza. Unfortunately, they’ve also invited friends over for brunch. And they’re out of limes! In Messy White Gays, Drew Droege—the sharp-penned and quick-witted diarist of the contemporary homosexual—shines a harsh overhead light on the pores of White Gaydom, revealing what happens when throuples crumble, neighbors bicker, and rich and pretty clash with hot and dumb.

April 21st – May 15th, 2027
Indecent by Paula Vogel

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright has crafted a deeply moving play inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance – a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture, and by others as an act of traitorous libel. Indecent charts the history of an incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it.

July 7th – 31st, 2027
Avenue Q by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty

Recent graduate Princeton moves into a run-down New York apartment on Avenue Q, where he meets an eccentric group of neighbors, including Kate Monster, a sweet kindergarten teaching assistant with big dreams; Rod, a closeted Republican banker; Nicky, his laid-back roommate, and Trekkie Monster, who’s addicted to the internet. As they navigate love, work, money and the search for purpose, this unforgettable bunch of puppets discover that life’s biggest lessons aren’t always as simple as they seemed on children’s television. With its sharp wit, catchy songs and wicked sense of humor, Avenue Q proves that being a grown-up isn’t as easy as it looks. The Tony Award winner for Best Musical in 2004!

The 2026-27 Cabaret Season

October 15th – 17th. 2026
Georgia Rogers Farmer: FLOOZIE

RTP’s resident cabaret diva and certified domestic goddess celebrates 15 years of songs, stories, crafts, and prizes in a brand-new show!

December 31st, 2026
Susan Sanford: Ringing in the New Year!
One of Richmond’s most celebrated performers – who won her two RTCC awards here at RTP (It Shoulda Been You and Grey Gardens) – helps us ring in the New Year (along with some very special guests) in a fabulous fashion with a cabaret you won’t want to miss!

January 8th & 9th, 2027
Scott Wichmann: The Return of Mr. Showtime

Scott brings back the style and flair of a bygone era with his signature charisma, blending the best of the Great American Songbook with modern classics and novelty tunes. Together with Musical Director Ryan Corbitt, Mister Showtime delivers the magic of the great crooners—from the Rat Pack to Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin to Mel Torme and more—with a wink and a smile.

March 18th – 20th, 2027
Ginger Minj and Jujubee: Licked: For Gay
Powered by the music of Ariana Grande, Licked: For Gay unfolds inside the Ozdust Barroom as a sexually confused, brand-obsessed Glinda confesses everything: the dorm-room tension, the chaotic love triangle with no straight edges, the rhinestoned corruption of a RuPaul led Oz, the ice bucket challenge heard ’round the world, and the love she didn’t have the courage to choose.

June 4th & 5th, 2027
Julie Fulcher Davis: Songs for the Journey
A Song Cycle for an Ordinary Lesbian Mormon Girl

RICHMOND TRIANGLE PLAYERS ANNOUNCES $100,000 GIFT CHALLENGE

Annual Fund Gifts from Now through Dec 31 Will Be DOUBLED

Richmond Triangle Players celebrates the season of Annual Giving with the announcement of a special $100,000 Match Challenge from now through December 31.

“Ticket sales only cover, at most, 60% of RTP’s annual expenses,” explained RTP executive director Philip Crosby. “Which means is that just attending our productions is not enough to keep RTP – and the unique and important work it does — alive and thriving.”

“That’s why we are so thrilled to announce a way for our patrons to double their end of year gifts with this one-to-one Match Challenge.” Crosby reports that just over $12,000 has already been raised to meet the challenge.

“Last month, a group of dedicated RTP donors banded together to create this $100,000 Match Challenge to support RTP’s Annual Fund appeal,” continued RTP artistic director Lucian Restivo. “If RTP’s friends and patrons truly step up to meet this challenge, it could mean a total of $200,000 raised by RTP by December 31. So now is really the time to put RTP on your holiday gift list!”

Making an Annual Fund gift is quicker and easier than ever. Simply click on “Donate Now” at the right to show your support. Or visit www.rtriangle.org/support to find out how to make a gift of appreciated stock.  Or for those who prefer doing it the old-fashioned way, you can mail RTP a check at PO Box 6905, Richmond VA, 23230.

For more information, contact RTP executive director Philip Crosby via email at crosby@rtriangle.org or call/text 804-342-7665.

Nicholas Rodriquez: Simply Sondheim

May 10 & 11, 2024: 8:00 pm

In a musical love letter, Nicholas Rodriguez (One Life to Live, Sex and the City 2), recently on Broadway in the Tony award-winning revival of Company, celebrates Stephen Sondheim with a nod to both the lyrical and musical genius of the late composer and his reputation for his renowned penmanship. Pulling from thousands of handwritten letters to fans and colleagues alike, Rodriguez weaves together stories from Sondheim’s own words and explores the fascinating relationships with legends such as Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerry Herman, Jonathan Larson and Lin-Manuel Miranda. The concert features selections from Company, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods and more.

Nicholas recently toured the U.S. as Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music directed by Jack O’Brien. He starred opposite Kathleen Turner in Mother Courage and Her Children at DC’s Arena Stage where he also played Billy Bigelow in Carousel (Helen Hayes Nomination), Sebastian in the World Premier of Destiny of Desire, Freddy in My Fair Lady (Helen Hayes nomination), Fabrizio in Light in the Piazza and was also seen as Curly in Oklahoma! for which he received a 2011 Helen Hayes Award for “Best Actor in a Musical” and was named “Top 10 Performers of 2010” by Hilton Als of The New Yorker.

Airswimming
by Charlotte Jones
a comedy about despair
April 16 – May 4, 2024

Direction by Mel Rayford
Featuring Patricia Austin, Calie Bain, Jan Guarino and Kendall Walker.

Set in 1920’s England, Airswimming is based on the true story of two women, who have been incarcerated in a hospital for the “criminally insane” for having borne illegitimate children. Forgotten by their families and not released until the 1970’s, Dora and Persephone adopt alter-egos, Dorph and Porph, to enact their fantasies and survive the silence of incarceration. By turns very funny and moving, Airswimming reminds us of the forgotten women of these generations in both Britain and Ireland.

Opens Friday April 12, 2024, at 8 pm, following low-priced previews on Wednesday and Thursday, February April 10 & 11 at 8 pm. Performances run Thurs-Sat evenings at 8 pm through May 4 with Sunday matinees at 4 pm and select Wednesdays at 8 pm. Tickets are $40 ($20 for the previews, $10 for students, always, and discounts for groups of 10 or more).

Dan Stackhouse & Jim Morgan: A (Sorta) Love Song

March 15 & 16, 2024: 8:00 pm; March 17, 2024, 4:00 pm

In a desperate attempt to stay relevant to you (and each other), we’ve allowed Dan Stackhouse (La Cage aux Folles, The Normal Heart) and Jim Morgan (The Normal Heart, The Rocky Horror Show)– two of Richmond’s most beloved performers — to torment each other (and you) with stories and songs from their 25 years together.

Torch Song
by Harvey Fierstein
February 14 – March 9, 2024

Direction by Gary C. Hopper
Starring Lucian Restivo as Arnold Beckoff, with Axle Burtness, Emily Berry, Zach Bernard, Liam Storm, and Debra Clinton as Mrs. Beckoff.

Torch Song follows Arnold Beckoff’s odyssey to find happiness in New York. All he wants is a husband, a child and a pair of bunny slippers that fit, but a visit from his overbearing mother reminds him that he needs one thing more: respect. The show explores love and relationships, families we’re born into and those we choose, and above all, the struggle to find ourselves.

Opens Friday February 16, 2024, at 8 pm, following low-priced previews on Wednesday and Thursday, February 14 & 15 at 8 pm. Performances run Thurs-Sat evenings at 8 pm through March 9 with Sunday matinees at 4 pm and select Wednesdays at 8 pm. Tickets are $40 ($20 for the previews, $10 for students, always, and discounts for groups of 10 or more).

one in two
by Donja R. Love
September 20 – October 14, 2023

Directed by Shanea N. Taylor
featuring Keaton Hillman, TeDarryl Perry and Garrett D. Reese

RTP begins its new 2023-24 season with an unforgettable new work by the author of RTP’s acclaimed Sugar in Our Wounds.

Three Black queer men sit in an ethereal waiting room, inviting audiences to join them in a powerful theatrical experiment that is equal parts harrowing, hilarious, and hopeful. When one of them is chosen, he’ll be forced forced to live a new reality inside an epidemic, exploring the joys, the pain and the truths of not being defined by his diagnosis. With grace and humor, one in two breaks the silence on an experience that’s an ongoing reality for so many and reveals the community that thrives within it.

“Donja R. Love’s powerful play balances tenderness and fury… equal parts laughter and pain … Defiantly life-embracing, it’s a call to action over the ‘ hidden state of emergency’: the risk that one in two Black men who have sex with other men will receive a diagnosis of HIV.” —The New York Times.

“Donja R. Love’s one in two is a raw, intense and surreal exploration of what it’s like to be a queer African-American man with HIV…a blunt wake-up call that the epidemic is far from over.” —TimeOut NY.

Opens Friday September 22, 2023, at 8 pm, following low-priced previews on Wednesday and Thursday, September 20 & 21 at 8 pm. Performances run Thurs-Sat evenings at 8 pm through October 14; with Sunday matinees at 4 pm and select Wednesdays at 8 pm. Tickets are $40 ($20 for the previews, $10 for students, always, and discounts for groups of 10 or more).

Darienne Lake: Altered Boy

Beloved RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Darienne Lake (Season 6, All Stars Season 8) shares intimate but hilarious anecdotes about her life; from growing up as the middle child in a large catholic family, to coming out at an early age as a drag queen and finding her chosen family and life purpose through humor and self revelation.

VIP Meet and Greet Tickets Available. Meet and Greet begins at 7:00 pm; performance at 8:30 pm