Week of Events
Hampton Restaurant Week
Hampton Restaurant Week is back March 5–19! Support local restaurants, savor local faire, and enjoy Hampton Restaurant Week! Specials include: $10 and $15 lunches, $25 and $35 dinners. Participating restaurants coming soon!
Virginia Swimming Short Course Age Group Championships
Nearly 800 boys and girls swimmers, ages 9-14 from throughout the state of Virginia will compete in this championship event. Free admission.
An Evening with Ben Jealous
Ben Jealous, a prominent civil rights leader, is coming to the American Theatre to give a free lecture and book signing featuring his book Never Forget Our People Were Always Free. Jealous has devoted his life and career, including his tenure as President of the NAACP, to ending injustice and racism by strengthening the bonds...
Margaret Cho: Live and LIVID!
As a trailblazing comedian, actress, musician and activist, Margaret Cho has five Grammy Award nominations and one Emmy nod for her groundbreaking work on 30 Rock. Rolling Stone magazine named Margaret one of the 50 Best Stand-Up Comics calling her “the sort of funny, sex-positive feminist and LGBTQ activist younger comics continue to look up...
Hampton Roads Philharmonic
Hampton Roads Philharmonic returns for its tenth season at the American Theatre, uniting musicians from all walks of life, brought together by a love of music. Active and retired military, music teachers, students, senior citizens, and more comprise the orchestra under the baton of music director and conductor Steven Brindle. The orchestra is proud to...