Show Schedule

Triple Threat is a Play that Moves and Sings. It’s one man sharing a story. Each person is brought to life by one actor on the stage, in video and voiceover.

Proteus Festival is The Z’s annual celebration of creativity. In keeping with the festival’s namesake, Proteus, the festival’s form shifts slightly each year.

Personalities collide as people come and go from the apartment, secrets & tea spill, and both roommates learn the power of being unashamedly YOU!

Kenzie is a normal girl in a challenging world; sometimes so challenging that she finds solace in another world – that of video games.  This touching work addresses real modern-day problems of poverty, homelessness and self-worth.

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

Don’t let his larger-than-life presence fool you. Jake Hoot may stand 6’6”, but the Season 17 Champion of NBC’s The Voice is just as genuine and sweet natured as ever.

The day before Halloween is the perfect time to let Atumpan take you on a journey into the deepest, darkest parts of the fairytale land forest for the fractured fairytales of "Little Red Riding in the Hood" and "Oink Yeah! The Three Little Pigs Remixed".

This November 4th-6th, join us at The Z for three kinds of comedy: Stand Up, Improv, and Sketch. We’ll feature the best local comedy acts alongside some of our favorite national talent, and throw in workshops and networking events for good measure.

One of CTHR’s most beloved productions is back! “King of the Wild Frontier” is a name befitting a Tennessee hero with a coonskin cap… but what if there are not one, not two, but three such heroes competing for the title?

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

Watch Plan B perform some scripted sketch comedy that’ll cure that holiday food coma and leave you asking for seconds!

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

Set the Kwanzaa table and light the kinara!  It's time to celebrate Kwanzaa.  Atumpan Dance Theatre brings folklore to life through a story about two different birds.

Holidivas is one of The Z’s most popular cabarets, always different and delightful! Heart-warming and sprinkled with comedy, you won’t want to miss this unique holiday experience.

A Soulful Christmas: A Groovy Musical Revue is the new, 70's Holiday Musical Show for lovers of Gospel, R&B and Soul. Be transported back to the disco era into of our “GROOVY WONDERLAND” inspired by the hit TV show “SOUL TRAIN”.

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

Playwright Michael Aguirre has created a special occasion, a throwback listening party that takes us through Jackson’s album while exploring the complications and meanings of family relationships.

One of CTHR’s most beloved productions is back! You think you know the story. Pigs. Houses. Red Cloaks. Taking baskets to Grandma's house. But you've never heard the real story - until now!

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

Elements of both beauty and truth are central to dance and will be explored from various perspectives in Ballet Virginia’s winter repertoire performances.

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

You know them from America's Got Talent, fair and festival favorite Cirque Zuma Zuma wows audiences world-wide.

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

Dance and sing along with traditional West African music and songs as you are whisked away to animal land to see the good and not so good things that Anansi brought to the world by way of his misbehaving.

FOUNTAIN OF YOU is an irreverent, feminist chamber musical satirizing society’s preoccupation with youth and beauty, and the patriarchal system underlying it all.

One of CTHR’s most beloved productions is back! An evil, terrible queen is threatening to take over the kingdom! Can no one in this entire Hill of Beans stop her from carrying out her dastardly plot?

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

Leading jazz vocalist Alexis Cole and the team at jazzvoice.com lead the festival events, with workshops and masterclasses scheduled alongside non-stop performances. Multiple Grammy®-winner Kurt Elling headlines the festival with a special performance on April 8th.

Spring has sprung and hibernation is done.  Now it's time for bears everywhere to wake up and eat!  Go on a hunting trip with Bre'r Bear and see how he gets tricked out of all of his food by Bre'r Rabbit, that sneaky little hare.

Based in Richmond, Virginia, No BS! Brass Band has quickly earned a reputation as a premiere band to see for heart-pounding energy and uncontrollable dancing.

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

In a house, there lives a Dog. The dog is happy. Life is peaceful. Then the humans bring home a surprise. A yarn chasing, mouse hunting, meowing surprise. Dog does not like surprises.

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.

Our resident comedy company is back for another season of quick witted and hilarious offerings.