November 2018
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST JR
Presented by Champaign Park District Youth Theatre (5th-8th Grades) Date/Time(s): Thur-Sat, Nov 15-17, 2018 - 7pm (2pm matinee Saturday) Doors open 45 minutes before each show Seating: Reserved Tickets: $14 Adult/$12 Child (12 and under) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On Sale Date: Now on Sale The Award-winning animated film and stage play comes to life in this romantic and beloved take on a classic fairy tale. Based on the original Broadway production that ran for…
Find out more »FIRST MAN (2018)
Date/Time(s): Mon-Wed, Nov 19-21, and Fri-Sat, Nov 23-24 - 7pm plus Sat-Sun, Nov 24-25, 2018 - 1pm (doors open 1 hour before each show) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $8 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG-13 (138 min) This riveting true story of NASA's mission to land a man on the moon focuses on Neil Armstrong and the years 1961–1969. The film stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, alongside Claire Foy,…
Find out more »HOLIDAY CARD PHOTO OP
Date/Time(s): Mon, Nov 26, 5-8pm Tues, Dec 4, 5-8pm Mon, Dec 10, 5-8pm Tickets: FREE Reservations available starting Friday, July 20, 2018 - 10am (at the box office and by phone at 217-356-9063). We’re opening up the Virginia’s beautifully decorated Mezzanine Lobby for photographs this holiday season! Drop by or call our box office (217-356-9063) to reserve your 15-minute slot (space is limited). Bring your camera or arrange to have a professional photographer meet you at the theatre, and capture…
Find out more »December 2018
JEWEL: Handmade Holiday Tour
Date(s)/Time(s): Sat, Dec 1, 2018 – 8pm Seating: Reserved Tickets: $45/$59.50/$89.50/$125 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $6 (online only) (VIP Packages also available at www.jeweljk.com) Limit: 8 Tickets Per Patron On Sale Date: Fri, Sept 7, 2018 – 10am Ally Bank proudly presents Jewel’s Handmade Holiday Tour with special guests Atz, Atz Lee, and Nikos Kilcher Jewel's fan favorite Handmade Holiday Tour returns this Holiday season for a one of a kind tour, performing Holiday classics, Holiday originals,…
Find out more »Rewind 92.5 MOVIE SERIES: Listeners’ Choice
Date/Time(s): Sun, Dec 2, 2018 - 2pm (doors open at 1pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) Stand up and be counted and help us choose which of the following holiday favorites we show at this special December screening! The “candidates”: When Harry Met Sally (1989) Home Alone (1990) Jingle all the Way (1996) Die Hard (1988)
Find out more »AN EVENING WITH NICK OFFERMAN
Date/Time(s): Mon, Dec 3, 2018 - 7:30pm (doors open at 6:30pm) Seating: Reserved Tickets: $35/$45/$55/$80 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $5 (online only) 8 ticket limit, per patron On-Sale Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2018 - 10am Humorist Nick Offerman returns to the site of his youthful matriculation with a collection of sawdusty musings on living with enthusiasm, crafting things in wood and most importantly, cultivating mirth. Nick Offerman, University of Illinois Alum, generously is performing these two…
Find out more »HOLIDAY CARD PHOTO OP
Date/Time(s): Mon, Nov 26, 5-8pm Tues, Dec 4, 5-8pm Mon, Dec 10, 5-8pm Tickets: FREE Reservations available starting Friday, July 20, 2018 – 10am (at the box office and by phone at 217-356-9063). We’re opening up the Virginia’s beautifully decorated Mezzanine Lobby for photographs this holiday season! Drop by or call our box office (217-356-9063) to reserve your 15-minute slot (space is limited). Bring your camera or arrange to have a professional photographer meet you at the theatre, and capture…
Find out more »MEET SANTA CLAUS AT THE VIRGINIA THEATRE!
Date/Time(s): Wed, Dec 5, 2018 - 5-7pm Tue, Dec 11, 2018 - 5-7pm Wed, Dec 19, 2018 - 5-7pm Tickets: FREE Ho ho ho, Santa Claus is coming to town! The Champaign Center Partnership and the Champaign Park District are excited to again welcome St. Nick to downtown’s historic Virginia Theatre. You and your family can visit with Santa in the theatre's Mezzanine Lobby once weekly during the holidays. Santa will take pictures with each visitor (parents, bring your cameras!)…
Find out more »RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL
Date/Time(s): Thur, Dec 6, 2018 - 6:30pm (doors open at 5:30pm) Seating: Reserved Tickets: Adult: $62.50/$52.50, Sen (55 and over): $55.50/$45.50, Child (12 and under): $42.50/$32.50 On-Sale Date: Fri, July 20, 2018 - 10am The beloved TV classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer soars off the screen and onto the stage this holiday season. Come see all of your favorite characters from the special including Santa and Mrs. Claus, Hermey the Elf, Bumble the Abominable Snow Monster, Clarice, Yukon…
Find out more »MICHAEL MCDONALD: Season of Peace, Holiday & Hits
Date/Time(s): Sun, Dec 9, 2018 - 7:00pm (doors open at 6:00pm) Seating: Reserved Tickets: $49.95/$59.95/$69.95/$79.95 (VIP Upgrade packages are available - see below for details!) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $4.00 (online only) On-Sale Date: Fri, July 20, 2018 - 10am Michael McDonald will bring his Season of Peace, Holiday & Hits Tour to the Virginia in December – and there’s no better way to get into the spirit of the holiday season! Two notes. That's all it takes…
Find out more »ANDREW PETERSON presents BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD
Presented by Gather Round Production Date/Time(s): Wed, Dec 12, 2018 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: Reserved Tickets: $25/$30/$35/$40 On-Sale Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2018 - 10am Storied Nashville singer-songwriter and author Andrew Peterson presents the Advent song cycle Behold the Lamb of God: The True Tall Tale of the Coming of Christ. Running for almost two decades, Behold the Lamb features an all-star cast of Nashville songwriters and session musicians performing Peterson’s original folk-roots infused rendition…
Find out more »HOLIDAY IN WHOVILLE 2018
Date/Time(s): Sun, Dec 16, 2018 - 1pm Seating: General Admission Tickets: $3 Standard/FREE for children 2 & under (please visit our box office to receive a ticket for children 2 & under) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Join us for a real holiday treat! Watch Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966 TV short) with screenings at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, and 4pm. During the event, we will have pictures with…
Find out more »NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER
Date/Time(s): Mon, Dec 17, 2018 - Sat, Dec 22, 2018 - 7pm (with a 1pm matinee Sat, Dec 22, 2018) (doors open 1 hour before each show) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 (or see all five for $24) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale These are some of our favorite movies all year long! Five classic Christmas tales shown in a historic setting—and enjoy savoring a nice cup of complimentary hot…
Find out more »NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
Date/Time(s): Mon, Dec 17, 2018 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 (or see all five for $24) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated G (109 min) A bishop prays for divine intervention…and is sent Cary Grant as a guardian angel in human form. In this sentimental favorite, the angel helps find financial aid to build a new church and revives the bishop’s shaky marriage. The…
Find out more »NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Date/Time(s): Tue, Dec 18, 2018 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated G (101 min) Kris Kringle is really convincing in his job as Santa Claus at the Macy’s toy-department. That’s because… he is Santa. After he’s institutionalized for this seemingly out-of-touch behavior, a young lawyer decides to defend him in court by proving that he is indeed the real…
Find out more »NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Date/Time(s): Wed, Dec 19, 2018 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Please Note: Meet Me In St. Louis has replaced White Christmas, originally scheduled for this date. Rating: G (113 min) In the year leading up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move…
Find out more »NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: A Christmas Carol (1951)
Date/Time(s): Thur, Dec 20, 2018 - 7pm (doors open 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Not Rated (87 min) Bah humbug! This enchanting Christmas fable is about an old embittered miser who is given the chance for redemption when three ghosts haunt him on Christmas Eve. The Bishop’s Wife (1947): Mon, Dec 17, 2018 - 7pm Miracle on 34th Street (1947): Tue, Dec 18, 2018 -…
Find out more »NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Date/Time(s): Fri & Sat, Dec 21 & 22, 2018 - 7pm (with a 1pm matinee Sat) (doors open 1 hour before each show) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG (132 min) A depressed businessman gets the opportunity to see what life is like had he never existed. With the help of an angel, George Bailey sees what could have been and learns to appreciate…
Find out more »January 2019
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017)
Date/Time(s): Tue & Thur, Jan 8 & 10, 2019 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG (130 min) In this live action remake of the animated classic a selfish prince is cursed by a witch who transforms him into a hideous creature. He must change his way unless he wants to remain a beast forever, but his chance at…
Find out more »NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Charade (1963)
Date/Time(s): Sat, Jan 12, 2019 - 1pm & 7pm (doors open 1 hour before each show) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated G (115 min) Help us celebrate Cary Grant’s birthday this month when we revisit the always-popular film that everyone said was “the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made"! Audrey Hepburn plays Regina, a woman suddenly widowed when her husband is murdered in…
Find out more »PURPLE RAIN (1984)
Date/Time(s): Tue & Thur, Jan 15 & 17, 2019 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated R (112 min) Prince stars as The Kid, a young musician who escapes his tumultuous home life when his star begins to rise, but he deals with more tribulations when he’s faced with a burgeoning romance with a fellow singer, a dissatisfied band worried about…
Find out more »THE BIG SICK (2017)
Date/Time(s): Tue & Thur, Jan 22 & 24, 2019 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated R (120 min) Based on the real-life love story between the film’s writer, Emily V. Gordon, and the film’s star, Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick tells the story of the pair falling in love but the struggles they face as their cultures clash. Emily eventually…
Find out more »REWIND 92.5 MOVIE SERIES BAD MOVIE MONDAYS: Tremors (1984)
Date/Time(s): Mon, Jan 28, 2019 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG-13 (96 min) Sneak out to the historic Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign, and be very, very quiet…because we’re showing this camp classic as part of Rewind 92.5’s “Bad Movie Mondays”. Extra credit if you can tell us what your six degrees to Kevin Bacon is! A quiet,…
Find out more »February 2019
STAND BY ME (1986)
Date/Time(s): Tue & Thur, Feb 5 & 7, 2019 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated R (89 min) A writer looks back on a boyhood journey to find the body of a local missing teen in 1959. In this coming-of-age story, the tight-knit group of friends find more than what they were looking for as they bond over the…
Find out more »NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Top Hat (1935)
Date/Time(s): Sat, Feb 9, 2019 - 1pm & 7pm (doors open 1 hour before each show) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Not Rated (101 min) Starring that original dancing dynamic duo, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Top Hat is the most successful and best known picture in the long history of their partnership. The film centers on a case of mistaken identity when a dancer…
Find out more »REWIND 92.5 MOVIE SERIES BAD MOVIE MONDAYS: Flash Gordon (1980)
Date/Time(s): Mon, Feb 25, 2019 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG (111 min) If you have never before experienced the unparalleled camp of Flash Gordon, the pure, unadulterated silliness of the picture may take you by surprise. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and with a soundtrack performed by Queen, Flash Gordon was a self-aware space opera that gained…
Find out more »BLACK PANTHER (2018)
Date/Time(s): Tue & Thur, Feb 26 & 28, 2019 - 7pm (doors open 1 hour before each show) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG-13 (135 min) T’Challa returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda after the death of his father to rise to the throne as King, but a vengeful enemy resurfaces to challenge T’Challa’s reign and puts the fate of…
Find out more »March 2019
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID – presented by Sterling Wealth Management
Date/Time(s): Sat, March 2, 2019 - 7:30pm (doors open at 6:30pm) Seating: Reserved Tickets: $40 On-Sale Date: Fri, July 20, 2018 - 10am For After Party Tickets – Click Here That’s What She Said is returning for the 5th installment next March as part of The Virginia Theatre’s 2018-19 Season. The show features local women sharing personal stories in an intimate show that will delight audiences. Sterling Wealth Management is excited to take on the role of presenting…
Find out more »BIG (1986)
Date/Time(s): Tue & Thur, Mar 5 & 7, 2019 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG (130 min) Be careful what you wish for…A teenage boy consults the wish-granting powers of a fortune-telling machine at the local pier and asks for it to make him grown up. Although, Josh is surprised when he wakes up the next morning with the body…
Find out more »NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Gaslight (1944)
Date/Time(s): Sat, Mar 9, 2019 - 1pm & 7pm (doors open 1 hour before each show) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Not Rated (114 min) The film that gave us an entirely new term for manipulation. After the death of her famous opera-singing aunt, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) falls in love with the charming Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer). Back in London, Paula begins to notice strange…
Find out more »REWIND 92.5 MOVIE SERIES BAD MOVIE MONDAYS: Xanadu (1980)
Date/Time(s): Mon, Mar 25, 2019 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG (96 min) For our final “Bad Movie Monday”, we’ve really upped the ante with this 1980 box office (and critical) flop! Xanadu stars Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly and Michael Beck, and features music by Newton-John, Electric Light Orchestra, Cliff Richard, and The Tubes. The film earned terrible…
Find out more »WONDER WOMAN (2017)
Date/Time(s): Tue & Thur, Mar 26 & 28, 2019 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG-13 (149 min) A WWII pilot crashes on a hidden and mysterious island inhabited by women warriors where he tells them of the conflicts in the outside world. Amazonian Diana is stricken by these stories of strife and leaves her home vowing to end…
Find out more »PECHA KUCHA NIGHT CHAMPAIGN-URBANA Volume 29
presented by the Champaign-Urbana Design Organization Date/Time(s): Sat, Mar 30, 2019 - 8:20pm (doors open at 7:20pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $10 in advance/$15 at the door Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: On-Sale Date: Now on sale Pecha Kucha (it draws its name from the Japanese term for “chit chat”) is a fast-paced event filled with cutting edge art & design, quirky humor, and sometimes surprising emotion. PK Nights—held in hundreds of cities all over the world—are…
Find out more »April 2019
NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Metropolis (1927)
Date/Time(s): Sat, Apr 6, 2019 - 1pm & 7pm (doors open 1 hour before each show) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Not Rated (153 min) This influential film portrays a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and city planners, but a working class prophet predicts the resolution to their differences when she falls in love with the son of the city’s mastermind. A…
Find out more »21ST ANNUAL ROGER EBERT’S FILM FESTIVAL PASS
Date/Time(s): Wed-Sat, April 10-13, 2019 - various times Seating: General Admission Festival Pass: $150.00/each Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $5.00 (online & phone sales only) Ebertfest Pass On-Sale Date: Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 10am (Festival Passes & 4-Packs only. Please note that Individual Ebertfest Tickets go on-sale Monday, April 1, 2019) Festival Pass 4-Pack: $510.00/packet-of-4 Get a Pass 4-Pack here Add’l per packet processing fees apply: $20.00 (online & phone sales only) The College of Media at Illinois…
Find out more »REWIND 92.5 MOVIE SERIES: Marvel’s The Avengers (2012)
Date/Time(s): Sun, Apr 28, 2019 - 2pm (doors open at 1pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG-13 (143 min) Fasten your capes and polish your shield—the Virginia Theatre is hosting a Mini Comic Con! Don your favorite costume and fly on over to have super fun at this special screening of The Avengers, hosted by our friends from Rewind 92.5 FM!
Find out more »May 2019
SWAN LAKE presented by CU Ballet
Date/Time(s): Fri, May 3, 2019 - 7pm | Sat, May 4, 2019 - 11am & 4pm (doors open 1 hour before each show) Seating: Reserved Tickets: $24 Adult/$19 Senior (55 and over)/ $12 Child (12 and under) & Student On-Sale Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2018 - 10am Champaign Urbana Ballet presents Swan Lake, the ultimate ballet! This romantic fable of ill-fated passion and forgiveness is told through beautiful choreography amid magnificent sets – a timeless classic. All performances…
Find out more »SPIRITED AWAY (2001)
Date/Time(s): Tue & Thur, May 7 & 9, 2019 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG (135 min) Ten-year-old Chihiro finds herself in a strange, new world en route to her family’s move to the suburbs. She discovers this place as a type of holiday resort for the supernatural after their tiring tour in the human world; a new world…
Find out more »NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: The Thin Man (1934)
Date/Time(s): Sat, May 25, 2019 - 1pm & 7pm (doors open 1 hour before each show) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Not Rated (93 min) Come celebrate the 85th birthday of the film that launched a beloved 6-film franchise! Based on the Dashiell Hammett novel, The Thin Man stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, with Powell and Loy setting the…
Find out more »REWIND 92.5 MOVIE SERIES: The Sandlot (1993)
Date/Time(s): Thur, May 30, 2019 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG (101 min) You’re killin’ me, Smalls! Batter up for this very special event with the team from Rewind 92.5 FM and more as we celebrate the boys of summer. A cult favorite, The Sandlot is the quintessential coming-of-age baseball film that Roger Ebert called the summertime version…
Find out more »June 2019
REWIND 92.5 MOVIE SERIES: Space Jam (1996)
Date/Time(s): Thur, June 13, 2019 - 7pm (doors open at 6pm) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $5 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Rated PG (88 min) It’s game time! Feel free to wear a jersey - and put on your game face - when you come root for the Looney Tunes at this special event with Rewind 92.5 FM. The live-action/animated sports comedy Space Jam stars the legendary Michael Jordan along…
Find out more »NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: On The Waterfront (1954)
Date/Time(s): Sat, June 22, 2019 - 1pm & 7pm (doors open 1 hour before each show) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Not Rated (108 min) Nominated for 12 Academy Awards (winning 8, including Best Picture, Actor, Director, and Best Supporting Actress). A longshoreman and wannabe prize fighter (Marlon Brando) witnesses a murder at the hands of his crooked boss’s cronies and finds himself tangled up…
Find out more »July 2019
NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Stage Door (1937)
Date/Time(s): Sat, July 13, 2019 - 1pm & 7pm (doors open 1 hour before each show) Seating: General Admission Tickets: $6 Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) On-Sale Date: Now on sale Not Rated (92 min) It’s Ginger Rogers’ birthday! Come watch Rogers and Katharine Hepburn star in a film (it was adapted from the play of the same name) about two young actresses aspiring to see their names in lights. Widely thought of as…
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