Auditions

The 2025-26 Season has been announced! With a suspense/horror play, ballet, choreopoem, drama and big musical comedy, we are looking forward to having lots of roles to offer to performers like you!

We are still in the process of assigning directors for most of our shows, and so we do not have any audition dates and times scheduled just yet. These WILL be announced throughout the year as each show gets closer, but we wanted to give some general information about the shows in our upcoming season:

  • THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (Suspense/Drama): 4 female characters, 3 male characters
  • A LEWISBURG VICTORIAN NUTCRACKER (Dance): 60+ roles for dancers and non-dancers of all ages!
  • FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF (Choreopoem): all 7 characters are women of color
  • THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Drama): 5 female characters (including 2 teens), 5 male characters (including 1 teen)
  • 1776 (Musical Comedy): 13 leading roles plus a large ensemble! Although the characters are 11 male, 2 female, it is our intention/vision to cast a mix of both women and men as male characters.

RiverStage is dedicated to principles of diversity, equity and inclusion when casting and giving a wide range of community members opportunities to develop their talents and skills on stage. Note the subtle distinction between characters and performers: although the licensing contracts for most plays and musicals prohibit us from changing the attributes of the characters as they are written (e.g., we can’t change “Alexander Hamilton” to “Alexandra Hamilton”), they allow and encourage us to cast performers who may differ from the character in sex, gender, race, age, or other characteristics, and we strive to do that when we can. For the shows in this 2025-26 season, we would say that, because of the subject matter, “for colored girls…” will be seeking only women of color in its auditions, but for all other shows, we encourage anyone regardless of background or experience level to audition for any role they are interested in.

If you have any questions about any particular show or role, please contact us at auditions@riverstagetheatre.org!

And in the meantime, you can always follow us on Faceboom & Instagram, and (most recommended) use our “Contact Us” page to sign up for email updates about upcoming auditions!

Thanks and we’ll hope to see you at auditions in the future!