Venues for live performances, concerts and Broadway-style productions include the Byrd Theatre, Historic Swift Creek Mill Theatre & Tavern, Landmark Theatre, Comedy Sportz Improv Theatre, and the Fas Mart Pavilion which features national bands, guest performers, and a summer concert series.

Cultural events include the February Arts Show, Classic Craftsmen Arts & Crafts Show, Shakespeare Festival, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, VCU Intercultural Festival, Arts in the Park, Richmond Highland Games & Celtic Festival, Greek Festival, Dogwood Dell Festival of the Arts, and Hispanic Gala. There’s also Art After Hours at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Excellent art galleries around town include Art Works Studios & Galleries, the West End Gallery, Artemis Gallery, Rentz Gallery, and the Art Alexander Reeves Fine Art.