Learn about The Paramount’s beginnings in 1931 and our long legacy of community involvement from the Great Depression to the magical reopening!
Discover the movers and shakers behind The Paramount’s construction, movie palace architecture, and the behind the scenes details of the two–year long restoration!
See the backstage Wall of Fame, where hundreds of artists have left their autographs and more!
Tickets are free. Reservations for the tour are strongly recommended, as space is limited. The behind-the-scenes tour will be about forty-five minutes in length. Cameras are welcomed on the tour. Food and drink will not be permitted inside the theater.
Learn about The Paramount’s beginnings in 1931 and our long legacy of community involvement from the Great Depression to the magical reopening!
Discover the movers and shakers behind The Paramount’s construction, movie palace architecture, and the behind the scenes details of the two–year long restoration!
See the backstage Wall of Fame, where hundreds of artists have left their autographs and more!
Tickets are free. Reservations for the tour are strongly recommended, as space is limited. The behind-the-scenes tour will be about forty-five minutes in length. Cameras are welcomed on the tour. Food and drink will not be permitted inside the theater.
Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant, and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.
MGC Artistic Director Michael Grandage directs this first ever UK revival since directing the world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse in 2009. The production went on to win six Tony Awards, including Best Play.
Award-winning stage and screen actor Alfred Molina reprises his critically acclaimed performance as the American abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko. He is joined by rising star Alfred Enoch of US television drama series How to Get Away With Murder as his assistant Ken.
Join us for a night out on the town with your closest friends. Enjoy this Friday night feature with the evening’s specialty Champagne cocktails!
Mike (Channing Tatum) spends his days pursuing the American Dream, from roofing houses to designing furniture at his Tampa beach condo. But at night…he’s just magic as the hot headliner in an all-male revue. Magic Mike has been rocking the stage at Club Xquisite for years with his original style and over-the-top dance moves. Just as another summer opens up to a world of fun, Mike begins falling for his new protégé’s captivating sister. Despite the mutual attraction, Mike might miss his chance when his lifestyle gets in the way.
Featured Chamber Nonprofit: Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries
The Chamber Nonprofit Round Table is organized to promote the sustained vitality, enhancement and development of the Chamber’s nonprofit member civic and community service organizations.
November 14, 2018
5:30pm—Cocktails
6:30pm—Opening Remarks & Dinner
7:45 - 9:00pm—Keynote & McIntire Award
Speaker: Wendy Heifetz - "Just In Case" (surviving the loss of a loved one)
Featured Chamber Business: Keller Williams - S. Lisa Herndon
Featured Nonprofit: Blue Trunk - Lucy Treichmann
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce Business Women's Round Table (BWRT) was founded in 2004 to offer professional women in our region opportunities for networking and professional development in a welcoming and collegial environment. Under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, the BWRT hosts monthly brown-bag lunch meetings, open to all Chamber members, on the third Thursday of every month.
BWRT members represent many diverse fields and professions, including large and small businesses, non-profits, real estate, banking, education, and many more. Ultimately, what binds our group together is the idea that camaraderie and professionalism can be mutually sustaining goals.
“Art is not a matter of what you see, but what you make other people see.” – Edgar Degas
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN journeys from the streets of Paris to the heart of a superb exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, whose extensive collection of Degas’ works is the most representative in Britain. With exclusive access to view rare and diverse works, this film tells a fascinating story of Degas’ pursuit for perfection through both experimentation with new techniques and lessons learnt from studying the past masters.
Sometimes frustrated by his own failings, Degas was consumed by obsessive principles and failing eye sight but his determination to capture everyday life was evident in every mark he made. Never fully satisfied, many of Degas’ drawings and sculptures were kept in private during his lifetime but, now through close examination, they can be seen as some of the most beautifully detailed and expressive works in the modern era. Using written accounts by friends and commentators, and the narration of letters written by Degas himself, this film reveals a more complex truth behind one of the most influential French artists of the late 19th-century and serves as an exploration of the complex workings of Degas’ artistic mind.
The 13th Annual Best of Both Worlds Dance & Step Competition returns to The Paramount Theater! This annual performance produces a fusion of dance and step teams competing for their share of $2,000 in cash and prizes, as well as bragging rights for the best in this highly competitive event! Some of the top college, professional, high school, and community teams throughout the region will share the stage for one afternoon only, as fans travel from all over the region to be a part of this captivating event which rivals performances in hit movies such as You Got Served and Stomp The Yard. Past performers include teams from Howard University, University of Virginia, James Madison University, Radford University, Liberty University, Hampton University, and Dance Institute of Washington.
The 13th Annual Best of Both Worlds Dance and Step Competition is age appropriate and enjoyed by seniors, children, and everyone in between.
The United Nations of Comedy Tour returns to The Paramount Theater! This tour features national comedians as seen on CONAN, Comedy Central, Showtime, TVOne, and other national programs. The United Nations of Comedy is one of the funniest national comedy tour to visit the area and has become one of the area’s most highly anticipated comedy events.
The tour was founded on promoting diversity through laughter and focuses on choosing the perfect blend of national comics by selecting an eclectic mix of styles. This years lineup includes a hysterical array of national comedians: Mike Recine, Antoine Scott, Funnyman Skiba, and a fourth surprise comic who will be announced on August 6.
The Paramount Theater was chosen as the host venue due to its historical significance, convenient location, and community driven mission. The theater’s stage has been visited by some of the top comedians and performers in the nation and the United Nations of Comedy continues its streak.
This event is sponsored by Presenting Sponsor C-Ville Weekly, along with the supporting sponsor the Charlottesville Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureau. A percentage of the profits will support the making of America’s Darkest Future: The Cost of an Inaccessible Early Education, the non-profit documentary.
West Side Story (1961) was directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was inspired by William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. Boasting music by the legendary Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, and George Chakiris. Released on October 18, 1961 through United Artists, the film received high praise from critics and the public, and became the second highest grossing film of the year in the United States.
Winner of 10 Academy Awards (the record holder for the most wins for a movie musical)
The Last Waltz was a concert by the rock group The Band, held on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The event was filmed by director Martin Scorsese and made into a documentary of the same name, released in 1978.
The Last Waltz was advertised as The Band’s “farewell concert appearance,” and the concert saw The Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Paul Butterfield, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ringo Starr, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Neil Diamond, Bobby Charles, The Staple Singers, and Eric Clapton. The musical director for the concert was The Band’s original record producer, John Simon.
“One of the greatest concert films ever made.” Chicago Tribune
They say lightening doesn’t strike twice in the same place…but Mike Super’s BRAND NEW Magic Show begs to differ!
Always leave ‘em wanting more! Much like a SUPER-charged software upgrade, Mike Super returns to The Paramount’s stage with a BRAND NEW show with all new magic. Instead of 2.0 he calls it 2.OH!™ SHOW!™ because of the newly created, never before seen magical, jaw dropping moments taking his uniquely branded evening of mystery to a whole new level!
If you witnessed Mike’s last smash hit show at The Paramount, get ready to be wowed all over again in a brand new way. If you’ve never seen Mike’s show, bring out the whole family to see what the buzz is about. In this brand new show, Mike will appear from an actual projection image! He plans to give the audience the winning Powerball numbers! (We aren’t kidding!) Mike also re-energizes one of the world’s most popular mysteries, the Rubic’s Cube, and not only solves it in record time with magic, but involves the audience in a way never before experienced…and this is only in the first 10 minutes of his all new show! Bring your family and friends to share in an all new evening of the impossible!
The classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, and Jeffrey Jones is an 80’s classic about a high school wise guy who is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the principal thinks of that!
High school student Ferris Bueller wants a day off from school and he’s developed an incredibly sophisticated plan to pull it off. He talks his friend Cameron into taking his father’s prized Ferrari and with his girlfriend Sloane head into Chicago for the day. While they are taking in what the city has to offer school principal Ed Rooney is convinced that Ferris is, not for the first time, playing hooky for the day and is hell bent to catch him. Ferris has anticipated that, much to Rooney’s chagrin.
Multi-award-winning drama The Madness of George III will be broadcast live to cinemas, in National Theatre Live’s first ever broadcast from Nottingham Playhouse.
Written by one of Britain’s best-loved playwrights Alan Bennett (The History Boys, The Lady in the Van), this epic play was also adapted into a BAFTA Award-winning film following its premiere on stage in 1991.
The cast of this new production includes Olivier Award-winners Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Wolf Hall, NT Live Coriolanus) in the title role, and Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey, Upstairs Downstairs, After the Dance).
It’s 1786 and King George III is the most powerful man in the world. But his behavior is becoming increasingly erratic as he succumbs to fits of lunacy. With the King’s mind unraveling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown, and expose the fine line between a King and a man.
The multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And I comes to the big screen at The Paramount in this unmissable event recorded live from London’s iconic Palladium.
Reprising her Tony Award-winning role, ‘Broadway musical’s undisputed Queen’ (The Sunday Times) Kelli O’Hara (Anna) takes to the stage alongside Tony and Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe (The King) in a “powerhouse” (The Times) performance. Also returning to her Tony Award winning role as Lady Thiang is Ruthie Ann Miles.
Set in 1860s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna, a British schoolteacher whom the modernist King, in an imperialistic world, brings to Siam to teach his many wives and children.
With one of the finest scores ever written including; Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You, and Shall We Dance, and featuring a company of over 50 world-class performers, The King and I is a testament to the lavish heritage of gloriously romantic musical theatre – it is the greatest musical from the golden age of musicals.
The Paramount Theater, the City of Charlottesville, Ting, and the UVA Community Credit Union present Charlottesville’s Grand Illumination! Join us on the Downtown Mall as we welcome the holiday season with a community event for all, including the lighting of the community tree and a FREE screening of Home Alone [PG] on the Big Screen at The Paramount!
When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O’Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.
November 30, 2018
8:00PM