Individuals should not attend if feeling sick or experiencing cold or flu-like symptoms, have been diagnosed with, or believe to have contracted, COVID-19, or have been in contact with an individual diagnosed with COVID-19 within the past 14 days. 

Because COVID-19 is highly contagious, there is a risk of exposure in any place where people gather. Virginia Arts Festival is taking appropriate steps to create a safe environment for all patrons, artists, and staff. Attendees of Virginia Arts Festival events assume all risks associated with the possibility of exposure to or contracting of any illness. 

Tickets for Virginia Arts Festival events may be purchased:
-online at secure.vafest.org,
-over the phone at (757) 282-2822,
-from Festival Group Sales representatives,
-in person at the Virginia Arts Festival Box Office at 440 Bank St, Norfolk, VA during hours of operation,
-at the Box Office at the performance 90 minutes before the performance start time unless otherwise noted,
-or through a production or venue partner’s approved sales channels.

Many unapproved entities claim to sell tickets to Virginia Arts Festival events, but Virginia Arts Festival does not guarantee the legitimacy of such purchases. When buying tickets, always be sure to use a legitimate sales channel.

All programs, artists, repertoire, prices, performance dates, times, and venues are subject to change. All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges. Additional fees apply to ticket prices shown. 

No children under the age of 6 are permitted to Virginia Arts Festival events, except for Virginia International Tattoo, Williamsburg Live, Perry Pavilion events, or free events. Other events may have differing policies specified on the performance ticketing page. No babes in arms. Every individual, regardless of age, must have a ticket. Child discounts are available for most performances.

Latecomers may be subject to delayed or relocated seating at the discretion of Front of House staff. 

We understand that you must have confidence when deciding to purchase tickets to Virginia Arts Festival performances. The Festival is committed to flexibility for ticket holders. If an event is canceled or postponed, we offer flexible exchanges to another event, exchanges for a gift certificate for future performance, the opportunity to support the Festival through a donation of the value of your tickets, or a full refund. As always, if you have questions when making a ticket purchase, you can call our helpful Box Office staff at (757) 282-2822. We look forward to seeing you at a performance soon. 

Virginia Arts Festival is committed to adhering to the Federal Trade Commission’s 2025 Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees, requiring the disclosure of a ticket’s total price upfront, inclusive of fees. Beginning May 12, all presentations of ticket prices will represent the total amount to be paid.

In adherence to the City of Norfolk’s Ordinance No. 49,809, city-imposed taxes are now described as such when presented to the ticket buyer. As such, all municipal taxes where imposed shall be demonstrated to the ticket buyer upon purchase and included in the all-in ticket price.

Virginia Arts Festival is committed to access to the performing arts to its patrons, and has adjusted fee structures in accordance with these mandates to minimize the burden of the ticket buyer. Virginia Arts Festival presents performances throughout coastal Virginia in cities and venues with differing fees, which result in varying fee structures.

Package tickets must be purchased as part of a single order to receive package discount (3 performances 10% off, 4 or more 15% off).

Future purchases within the same season will receive a 15% add-on discount and are subject to all standard processing, credit card, and venue fees.

* Not all performances are eligible for discounts - these tickets will remain full price, but will count toward the total number of performances as part of a package.

Virginia Arts Festival presents events in many venues, which comply with the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). Virginia Arts Festival is committed to providing a safe, accessible, and compliant experience for all patrons. Should any such needs not be met, or special accommodations be required, please contact the Box Office prior to an event at (757) 282-2822. 

Virginia Arts Festival seeks to foster a safe and enjoyable experience for all patrons, staff, and artists. Any behavior considered to impede these goals may be cause for dismissal of any individual at the discretion of Virginia Arts Festival or the host venue. 

The following privacy policy addresses how Virginia Arts Festival and all affiliated Virginia Arts Festival events collects, stores, and uses personal information collected from its websites.

I. Information Collection

The completion of certain commerce transactions which occur on Virginia Arts Festival website require constituents complete the registration process and provide some personal information. Such personal information is not sold to third parties.

II. Constituent Outreach

If a constituent provides an email address, Virginia Arts Festival may use that point of contact for direct messages, as well as for marketing, fundraising, and other informational purposes. Any email sent as a mass informational contact includes an option to opt out of future email communications to that point of contact.

III. Third Parties and Constituent Information

Virginia Arts Festival may communicate with a provided contact point with information on behalf of a third party organization, but never provides or sells to third party organizations a constituent’s personal contact information for the purposes of communications. Virginia Arts Festival reserves the right to share data of constituents who attend co-produced events with relevant production partners.

Virginia Arts Festival may provide collected constituent data to third party organizations which disseminate information to or directly solicit the constituent via their provided contact methods on behalf of Virginia Arts Festival. Constituents have the right to be excluded from such contacts. Third party organizations may also be engaged for the purposes of market research. Such third parties never release personal information beyond the expressed purposes stated in this privacy policy.

IV. Financial information

Constituent credit card information may be encrypted and stored in a secured database, and may be used for the purposes of recurring transactions authorized by the credit card holder. Virginia Arts Festival employees with access to constituent information only have access to a secured, encrypted representation of a constituent’s credit card information.

V. Third Party Sites

This privacy policy applies exclusively to the website of Virginia Arts Festival, and the websites of affiliated Virginia Arts Festival events which are indicated as such. This policy does not extend to third party websites that can be accessed by links which are present on Virginia Arts Festival pages.

Virginia Arts Festival websites may indefinitely use and store cookies and tracking tags that collect anonymous data from site visitors. Such tools are often implemented by third party organizations on Virginia Arts Festival’s behalf, and data is not distributed beyond the means expressed in this policy. With an appropriate browser setting, a user may disable cookies and tags, but this may affect some expected web functionality of most sites.

VI. Minors

The websites of Virginia Arts Festival and its affiliated events do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of sixteen years old without parental consent. If a parent is concerned that data from a child was collected unknowingly, please contact 757-282-2800.

VII. GDPR Compliance

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), residents of European Union member states have the right to access their personal information and request it be amended or erased, and may object to the use of their personal data, and may request such updates by contacting info@vafest.org. The third party services used by Virginia Arts Festival are GDPR compliant.

VIII. Disclaimer

While Virginia Arts Festival maintains an appropriately high data security standard, it hereby disclaims any liability for misuse, loss, alteration or use inconsistent with this policy.

Specific venues may have additional policies which can be found below:

• Seven Venues: Chrysler Hall, Attucks Theatre, Harrison Opera House, SCOPE
• Sandler Center for the Performing Arts
• Ferguson Center for the Arts

More Venue Information