Dogfight
Fri, Nov 07
|Charlottesville
Don't miss Venture Stage Company’s inaugural production - Dogfight. From the Tony-winning team of Pasek & Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land, The Greatest Showman) and Peter Duchan, Dogfight is a hauntingly beautiful story of love, cruelty, and compassion on the eve of the Vietnam War.
Time & Location
Nov 07, 2025, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Charlottesville, 221 Carlton Rd, Suites 3 &, 4, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
About the event
Venture Stage Company presents its inaugural production: Dogfight
Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul | Book by Peter Duchan
Based on the Warner Bros. film and screenplay by Bob Comfort
From the Academy, Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land, The Greatest Showman), comes a hauntingly beautiful and profoundly human story that helped launch their extraordinary career.
Set on the eve of the Vietnam War, Dogfight follows a group of young Marines on November 21, 1963—one final night before deployment to a small but growing conflict overseas. For Corporal Eddie Birdlace and his fellow recruits, it’s a night of bravado, mischief, and questionable bets. But when Eddie meets Rose, a shy, idealistic waitress he enlists as part of a cruel game, she rewrites the rules and teaches him the power of empathy and compassion in a world poised…