7/30/21 Update: Champaign Park District Announces Mask Mandate Effective July 30, 2021, the Champaign Park District has announced that all individuals are required to wear face masks while inside any park district facility — including the Virginia Theatre — regardless of vaccination status. For more, please visit https://thevirginia.org/covid-19-update-champaign-park-district-announces-mask-requirement-at-virginia-theatre/ Programming Resumes at the Virginia Theatre […]
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Virginia Theatre Launching New Ticketing System June 1, 2021
The Virginia Theatre is getting a new ticketing system! Starting June 1, 2021, the Virginia will go live with a new ticketing platform to provide patrons with an even better purchasing experience. We’re sorry that we will be unable to offer tickets for sale while we build and configure this new system. But we hope […]
ACADEMY EXECUTIVE FEATURED IN EBERTFEST SYMPOSIUM ON MEDIA REPRESENTATION
From University of Illinois News Bureau: CONTACT: Craig Chamberlain, Social Sciences Editor, 217-333-2894 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The 2020 Chaz & Roger Ebert Symposium’s virtual conversations with filmmakers, executives and others involved in a changing media industry continue Nov. 5 with an executive from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Christine Simmons, the academy’s […]
PROMINENT DOCUMENTARY FILMAKERS FEATURED IN EBERT SYMPOSIUM
From University of Illinois News Bureau: CONTACT: Craig Chamberlain, Social Sciences Editor, 217-333-2894 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Three documentary filmmakers who’ve tackled subjects ranging from biography and history to sexual assault and hip-hop will be featured guests for the second of three online discussions that constitute this year’s Chaz & Roger Ebert Symposium. Kirby Dick, Sacha […]
VIRGINIA THEATRE SUSPENDS ALL EVENTS THROUGH APRIL 30, 2021
Champaign, IL—The Champaign Park District announced today that it has suspended all public and private events at the Virginia Theatre, 203 West Park Avenue, Champaign, Illinois, 61820, through April 30, 2021. Many of the events originally planned for the fall of 2020 and winter and spring of 2021 are being rescheduled to future dates. For […]
Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 Virginia Theatre Events to be Announced in August
VIRGINIA THEATRE NEWS UPDATES July, 2020 Sound System Upgrade COVID-19 Precautions 2020/2021 Season Programming SOUND SYSTEM UPGRADE The Virginia Theatre is currently closed* through September 30 while the Champaign Park District completes the installation of a new concert-quality sound system. Funded by a Museum Grant from the State of Illinois, this new sound system […]
