Lyric Theatre

 Lyric has been a institution for a long time.

Christmas Concert

 Blue Ridge Vocal Connections, a community chorus, sang a show at the Lyric.

Lyric Theatre

 The Lyric offers a style of movies that includes "indie" films and classics.  Today was a modern film that explored the edges.

Creators of Rock Castle Homes

 Program at the Lyric Theatre featured documentary on the history of one segment of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Owl

This owl usually is sitting on one of the fences.  Today it added the required mask. 

Lyric masks masked

Blacksburg is coping with humor.  The comedy and tragedy masks on top of the building put on masks today.  And the Lyric suggested we could stream movies at home.  Alas, I am.

A Real Reel Movie Projector

Classic, at the Lyric Theatre lobby

State Leaders at Discussion

Government officials join with experts for a panel discussion on gun violence.  

Lyric

The Lyric Theatre showed a documentary film, GerryRigged.  

Researcher talks at several venues.

Sir Ian Witmut, who in 1996 led the team that cloned the first mammal, Dolly, a sheep, using an adult cell, spoke at several events at Blacksburg.  This was at the Lyric Theatre.

Walking from the Lyric

The Lyric theatre is a venue for many kinds of events.

Antique projector

The Super Simplex projector that was used at the Lyric Theatre was know as Murgatroid, according to the new book on The Lyric theatre.  The antique is in the lobby.

Crooked Road Show

The Lyric theatre hosted a program of bands from the Crooked Road, the venue that offers Appalachian Music in the places it is created.

It was the Lyric

A person who knows about theatre in this community told a group of us that, once, this was a movie theatre.

Lyric stage

It was just before a show; the sound system was ready.

Young musicians

This group of young musicians performed last week at the Lyric Theatre.

If you were selling tickets

View from the box office at Lyric theatre.

Lyric theatre

The Lyric restoration and development is continuing.  It is moving to the most modern system as it displays one of the older systems.

In Arts District

An arts district is being created in downtown.  The Lofts at the Lyric are in the center of the district.

Freedom Riders Program

Program about the Freedom Riders included a field director who helped conceptualize the "rides" and a local minister who was a civil rights pioneer.