Performance Venues

City Center at Oyster Point is an open-air gathering place, a shopping district and a central business district serving the Virginia Peninsula. Landscaped in a southern living style and grand vistas to the breath-taking five acre fountain, City Center at Oyster Point is a vibrant spot for the perfect gathering. Events are typically held at either the Fountain Stage or the Market Stage. Free parking is available on the street as well as in three garages. 

Art! Drama! Music! Dance! Leadership! Have a new home in Newport News. Come find your place at the Downing Gross Cultural Arts Center. Even the final moments of construction cannot stop the best our imagination can offer the talented youth of our city! Come find your spotlight! Come express yourself! 

Christopher Newport University's Ferguson Center for the Arts has become an important cultural beacon in the Commonwealth. This $60 million, 300,000-square-foot facility attracts and presents the finest artists and entertainers in the world. The Ferguson Center includes the impressive 1,700-seat Concert Hall, the 500-seat Music & Theatre Hall and a 200-seat Studio Theatre... 

Motor coach groups are welcome to visit Patrick Henry Mall to enjoy its many shopping, dining and entertainment options. A spacious food Court, with a fireplace and comfortable sofa seating area, offers ten taste eateries. For your shopping pleasure we have 120 specialty stores to include Borders Books and Music and Dicks Specialty Goods; and our department stores include Dillards, Macy’s and JCPenny. The mall recently completed a Starbucks located at the end of the Food Court. The mall also features three sit down restaurants: Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Bailey’s Pub and Grille and Ruby Tuesday. 

In 1994, Peninsula Community Theatre (PCT) bought the Village Theatre, an art deco movie house that was a landmark in historic Hilton Village (Author William Styron worked there as a lad!). Since then PCT has refurbished nearly every square inch, including the neon letters (VILLAGE) that were lost to a hurricane. Peninsula Community Theatre offers two musicals, comedies and dramas each year in their five-production season (August - May)...