Student Performance Venues
Newport News offers many unique opportunities for your students to become stars. Showcase their talents at one of our bustling shopping and dining areas. Hold a pre-show performance for world-class artists. Or, let one of our attractions serve as a unique backdrop for students. Please contact Barb Kleiss, Group Marketing Manager at 757.926.1442 or toll-free at 888.493.7386 to arrange performance opportunities.
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City Center at Oyster Point
City Center at Oyster Point is an open-air gathering place, a shopping district and a central business district serving the Virginia Peninsula. Landscaped in a southern living style and grand vistas to the breath-taking five acre fountain, City Center at Oyster Point is a vibrant spot for the perfect gathering. Events are typically held at the Fountain Stage, the Market Stage, or the new Fountain-side Gazebo. Free parking is available on the street as well as in three garages.
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Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center
Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center is a 52,000 square foot facility, which houses the Ella Fitzgerald Theater, a 276 seat venue that honors the "First Lady of Song," who was born in Newport News in 1917. It also offers a banquet room, a multipurpose room, two exhibit galleries and several smaller meeting rooms---plenty of room for your group’s performance event! Originally built as the Walter Reed School, this historic building has been restored and was reopened to the public in October 2008.
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Ferguson Center for the Arts
Christopher Newport University's Ferguson Center for the Arts has become an important cultural beacon in the Commonwealth. This $60 million, 300,000-square-foot facility attracts and presents the finest artists and entertainers in the world. The Ferguson Center includes the impressive 1,700-seat Concert Hall, the 500-seat Music & Theatre Hall and a 200-seat Studio Theatre...
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Patrick Henry Mall
Motor coach groups are welcome to visit Patrick Henry Mall to enjoy its many shopping, dining and entertainment options. A spacious food Court, with a fireplace and comfortable sofa seating area, offers ten taste eateries. For your shopping pleasure we have 120 specialty stores incluing Dicks Specialty Goods; and our department stores include Dillards, Macy’s and JCPenny. The mall also features three sit down restaurants: Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Bailey’s Pub and Grille and Ruby Tuesday.
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Peninsula Community Theatre
In 1994, Peninsula Community Theatre (PCT) bought the Village Theatre, an art deco movie house that was a landmark in historic Hilton Village (Author William Styron worked there as a lad!). Since then PCT has refurbished nearly every square inch, including the neon letters (VILLAGE) that were lost to a hurricane. Peninsula Community Theatre offers two musicals, comedies and dramas each year in their five-production season (August - May)...