Get ready for the ultimate playdate – 65 million years in the making as you take a breathtaking tour beginning in pre-historic Australia! Meet a collection of amazingly life-like dinosaurs and other creatures that will thrill and teach audiences of all ages. Brought to life by a skilled team of puppeteers, and designed with the help of professional paleontologists, the puppets are so extraordinary, you may feel the urge to run and hide – but stay in your seat! You cannot miss a moment of this exciting show with over 19 dinosaurs including Triceratops, T Rex, and more. Run – don’t walk to see Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo Live!

Held at the Wilson Hall. Tickets:
Regular: $40/38/36
Subscriber: $38/36/34
JMU Fac/Staff: $39/37/35
Senior (62+): $39/37/35
Child: $22/20/18

American singer-songwriter legends, Karla Bonoff and Livingston Taylor present a magical night of amazing music! They share their own fan favorites, and then sing a few holiday tunes together to celebrate the season!  Bonoff has been described as one of the finest singer-songwriters of her generation. With a career spanning more than four decades, she has enjoyed critical acclaim and enduring popularity. Her songs have also become hits for other artists like Home by Bonnie Raitt and Tell Me Why by Wynonna Judd and Linda Ronstadt. Livingston Taylor is a natural performer, peppering his shows with personal stories, anecdotes and ineffable warmth. From top-40 hits I Will Be in Love with You and I’ll Come Running, to I Can Dream of You and Boatman, his creative output has continued unabated. From upbeat storytelling to touching ballads, his songs will touch your heart.

Held at the Concert Hall. Tickets:
Regular: $41
Subscriber: $39
JMU Fac/Staff: $40
Senior (62+): $40

Light From The Darkness. Sit back and enjoy a celebratory performance by The Madison Singers, the JMU Chorale, and the JMU Symphony Orchestra.

HolidayFest features Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s most popular mass, Midnight Mass for Christmas (Messe de Minuit pour Noël, H. 9). Dynamically refined with structural, harmonic, and instrumental finesse, Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit is an excellent example of 17th-century musical craftsmanship. The evening also features our traditional holiday sing-along and a special reading by a Harrisonburg celebrity. Don’t miss one of the Valley’s favorite concerts!

Held at the Concert Hall. Tickets:
Regular: $24
Subscriber: $22
JMU Fac/Staff: $23
Senior (62+): $23

Featuring JMU’s Virginia Repertory Dance Company

Dancescapes 2023, directed by Associate Dance Professor Matt Pardo, will feature world premieres by guest artists from across the country including Norbert De La Cruz and Brandi Coleman. The concert will also feature the work Concerto by the world-renowned artist, Lucinda Childs.  Additionally, the Virginia Repertory Dance Company (VRDC) will continue its focus on collaboration, partnering with JMU’s Furious Flower Poetry Center to create a shared original work. This exciting evening will explore contemporary dance at its finest and will feature members of VRDC.

Held at the Mainstage Theatre. Tickets:
Regular: $18
Subscriber: $16
JMU Fac/Staff: $17
Senior (62+): $17
Students: $13

Featuring JMU’s Virginia Repertory Dance Company

Dancescapes 2023, directed by Associate Dance Professor Matt Pardo, will feature world premieres by guest artists from across the country including Norbert De La Cruz and Brandi Coleman. The concert will also feature the work Concerto by the world-renowned artist, Lucinda Childs.  Additionally, the Virginia Repertory Dance Company (VRDC) will continue its focus on collaboration, partnering with JMU’s Furious Flower Poetry Center to create a shared original work. This exciting evening will explore contemporary dance at its finest and will feature members of VRDC.

Held at the Mainstage Theatre. Tickets:
Regular: $18
Subscriber: $16
JMU Fac/Staff: $17
Senior (62+): $17
Students: $13

Trey McLaughlin and The Sounds of Zamar have carved a unique place for themselves in the music industry through soul-stirring arrangements of contemporary gospel, musical theater, and pop favorites. With millions of online views and voices spread to the corners of the earth, the ensemble bursts onto the stage with expressive vocal style, awe-inspiring original arrangements, and opulent harmonies. The ensemble, organized in 2009 has performed with gospel greats. Hailing from Augusta, Georgia, the group transcends cultural boundaries, and their music is sung all over the world. Be transported by this soul-stirring evening featuring one of the brightest and most prolific groups on the gospel scene!

Held at the Concert Hall. Tickets:
Regular: $45
Subscriber: $43
JMU Fac/Staff: $44
Senior (62+): $44
Students: $17

Featuring the JMU Opera Theater
Music by Philip Glass
Libretto by Arthur Yorinks
Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s famous horror story has fascinated poets, dramaturgs, and composers for decades. American opera’s most influential 20th-century composer has transformed a gothic tale by a 19th-century master of the macabre. The result is spellbinding! Premiering in 1988, the opera is one of Glass’ most popular, and the hauntingly beautiful music captures every nuance and blood-curdling nerve of Poe’s story. When a man visits his ill childhood friend, Roderick Usher, he is shaken by the foreboding sense of evil that pervades the household’s inhabitants. His attempts to understand and address the literal and figurative “illness” that permeates Usher’s house fail at every turn, and he is unable to deter Usher, his sister Madeline, and the house itself from their swift descent into the abyss. Contains adult content.

Held at the Mainstage Theatre. Tickets:
Regular: $27
Subscriber: $25
JMU Fac/Staff: $26
Senior (62+): $26
Students: $14

Featuring the JMU Opera Theater
Music by Philip Glass
Libretto by Arthur Yorinks
Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s famous horror story has fascinated poets, dramaturgs, and composers for decades. American opera’s most influential 20th-century composer has transformed a gothic tale by a 19th-century master of the macabre. The result is spellbinding! Premiering in 1988, the opera is one of Glass’ most popular, and the hauntingly beautiful music captures every nuance and blood-curdling nerve of Poe’s story. When a man visits his ill childhood friend, Roderick Usher, he is shaken by the foreboding sense of evil that pervades the household’s inhabitants. His attempts to understand and address the literal and figurative “illness” that permeates Usher’s house fail at every turn, and he is unable to deter Usher, his sister Madeline, and the house itself from their swift descent into the abyss. Contains adult content.

Held at the Mainstage Theatre. Tickets:
Regular: $27
Subscriber: $25
JMU Fac/Staff: $26
Senior (62+): $26
Students: $14

Separated from his mother, a young refugee called Anon journeys through the United States, encountering a wide variety of people— some kind, some dangerous and cruel — as he searches for his family. Anon must navigate through a chaotic, ever-changing landscape in this entrancing adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey. At a time when our country is wrestling with the issue of immigration reform, Anon(ymous) offers an insightful look at the topic in this compelling theatrical work by one of America’s finest contemporary playwrights. Featuring students from JMU’s School of Theatre and Dance.

Anon(ymous) is presented by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc.

Held at the Studio Theatre. Tickets:
Regular: $20
Subscriber: $18
JMU Fac/Staff: $19
Senior (62+): $19
Students: $13

All Things Equal – The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a new play by multiple-Tony Award-winning playwright Rupert Holmes (Curtains – 2007, Say Goodnight Gracie – 2003, The Mystery of Edwin Drood – 2003) is a fascinating and humorous portrayal of the Supreme Court Justice, a true American original. Theatergoers will marvel at Ginsburg’s strength, tenacity, sly wit and compassion, her yearning for equality, and her love for this nation’s precious institutions. All Things Equal is an intimate look at RBG’s life and trials: being one of only nine young women studying law at Harvard while also raising a daughter and helping her husband battle cancer, fighting for women’s rights in the 1970s before all-male courts, and taking courageous stands for human rights amid an increasingly politicized Supreme Court.

Held at the Mainstage Theatre. Tickets:
Regular: $41
Subscriber: $36
JMU Fac/Staff: $39
Senior (62+): $39
Students: $19

All Things Equal – The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a new play by multiple-Tony Award-winning playwright Rupert Holmes (Curtains – 2007, Say Goodnight Gracie – 2003, The Mystery of Edwin Drood – 2003) is a fascinating and humorous portrayal of the Supreme Court Justice, a true American original. Theatergoers will marvel at Ginsburg’s strength, tenacity, sly wit and compassion, her yearning for equality, and her love for this nation’s precious institutions. All Things Equal is an intimate look at RBG’s life and trials: being one of only nine young women studying law at Harvard while also raising a daughter and helping her husband battle cancer, fighting for women’s rights in the 1970s before all-male courts, and taking courageous stands for human rights amid an increasingly politicized Supreme Court.

Held at the Mainstage Theatre. Tickets:
Regular: $41
Subscriber: $36
JMU Fac/Staff: $39
Senior (62+): $39
Students: $19