Riverside Center for the Performing Arts Educational Programs and Summer Performing Arts Camp
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, 95 Riverside Parkway, Fredericksburg, VA 22406
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Riverside Center for the Performing Arts Educational Programs and Summer Performing Arts Camp includes a summer performing arts camp, theatrical productions, Children’s Theatre productions, and other educational programs. The program also takes part in community outreach programs connected to the performing arts.
• Price: Riverside offers an annual summer performing arts camp free of charge to economically disadvantaged children and youth.
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents theatrical productions, nurtures an array of artists, and offers educational programs as it conducts community outreach programs in a collaborative and dynamic environment, according to its mission statement. The organization began as Riverside Center Dinner Theater and Conference Facility, which opened its first production, Oklahoma!, on June 18, 1998, and rebranded as Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in 2016. Riverside Center was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and attained 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in 2024. The leadership team includes Patrick A’Hearn as CEO and Producing Artistic Director and Carson Eubank as Associate Producing Artistic Director & Music Supervisor, along with managers and staff overseeing company operations, production, technical direction, costumes, lighting, props, audio, stage management, design, scenic art, accounting, operations and events, box office, marketing, and group sales. Musical theatre critics have described Riverside Center as “consistently demonstrating high-quality, professional-caliber productions” and “one of the best places to see musicals in the D.C. area,” and StaffordTour Stafford VA has stated, “They’re Broadway’s Best.” The venue features Virginia’s only dinner theatre fly loft, Broadway-quality entertainment in Virginia, and a live orchestra for musical theatre productions.
Last updated August 16, 2026.
• Price: Riverside offers an annual summer performing arts camp free of charge to economically disadvantaged children and youth.
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents theatrical productions, nurtures an array of artists, and offers educational programs as it conducts community outreach programs in a collaborative and dynamic environment, according to its mission statement. The organization began as Riverside Center Dinner Theater and Conference Facility, which opened its first production, Oklahoma!, on June 18, 1998, and rebranded as Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in 2016. Riverside Center was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and attained 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in 2024. The leadership team includes Patrick A’Hearn as CEO and Producing Artistic Director and Carson Eubank as Associate Producing Artistic Director & Music Supervisor, along with managers and staff overseeing company operations, production, technical direction, costumes, lighting, props, audio, stage management, design, scenic art, accounting, operations and events, box office, marketing, and group sales. Musical theatre critics have described Riverside Center as “consistently demonstrating high-quality, professional-caliber productions” and “one of the best places to see musicals in the D.C. area,” and StaffordTour Stafford VA has stated, “They’re Broadway’s Best.” The venue features Virginia’s only dinner theatre fly loft, Broadway-quality entertainment in Virginia, and a live orchestra for musical theatre productions.
Last updated August 16, 2026.
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