512: The Selena Experience

Academy Center of the Arts

512: The Selena Experience is a mind – blowing experience and the closest one you can get to live a Selena concert. Simply, the best Selena tribute production out there! These musicians came together and orchestrated an extraordinary show that will take you back to 1995 within seconds of their first song. 512 will bring to you the finest Selena […]

Leslie Odom, JR.

Historic Academy Theatre, United States

Leslie Odom Jr. at the Academy Center of the Arts

Academy Center of the Arts

Leslie Odom, Jr. is a multifaceted, award-winning vocalist, songwriter, author, and actor. With a career that spans all performance genres, he has received recognition with Tony and Grammy Awards as well as multiple Emmy and Academy Award nominations for his excellence and achievements in Broadway, television, film, and music. Most recently, Odom made his long-awaited return to Broadway to star […]

Leslie Odom Jr. at the Academy Center of the Arts

Academy Center of the Arts

Leslie Odom, Jr. is a multifaceted, award-winning vocalist, songwriter, author, and actor. With a career that spans all performance genres, he has received recognition with Tony and Grammy Awards as well as multiple Emmy and Academy Award nominations for his excellence and achievements in Broadway, television, film, and music. Most recently, Odom made his long-awaited return to Broadway to star […]

Gangstagrass

Joy & Lynch Christian Warehouse Theatre, United States

Gangstagrass at the Academy Center of the Arts | Warehouse

Academy Center of the Arts

Suppose, just suppose, you could take a little of everything that’s great about this country and distill it. It’s creativity, it’s ingenuity, it’s the strength of the struggles of so many of it’s people – indigenous, enslaved, or otherwise. And then take that distilled energy and creativity and transform it to a musical form. What would you say if someone […]

Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn

Academy Center of the Arts

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, “the king and queen of the banjo” (Paste Magazine), have a musical partnership like no other. Béla Fleck is a fifteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who re-radicalized it by combining it with Far East culture and sounds. The two […]

Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn

Academy Center of the Arts

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, “the king and queen of the banjo” (Paste Magazine), have a musical partnership like no other. Béla Fleck is a fifteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who re-radicalized it by combining it with Far East culture and sounds. The two […]

Clay Festival 2024

Joy & Lynch Christian Warehouse Theatre, United States

Clay Festival 2024

Academy Center of the Arts

The Academy Center of the Arts proudly presents the Academy Clay Festival on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Potters, sculptors, wheel throwers, and hand builders from all across the Piedmont Region and Eastern Shore will gather in Central Virginia along the James River to sell and showcase their work for this one-day show. Participating vendors will also be given the opportunity […]