This will be the second week of the V Bar —the vampiric drag event usually paired with Nosferatu and staged at the Renaissance Theatre — residency at the Plaza Live, cheekily dubbed Condamned.
The name comes from city officials shutting down and effectively condemning the Ivanhoe Village venue for construction issues and code violations. This couldn’t come at a worse time for the Ren: The immersive and spooky extravaganza that is Nosferatu is both the theater’s most ambitious undertaking and biggest moneymaker of the year.
As the time of writing, there are no developments in the Ren’s talks with the city to resolve the issue. But while Nosferatu is just too involved to be staged anywhere else, V Bar has hopped over to the Plaza Live.
And it’s worth your time to darken the doors of this Milk District venue to see local drag luminaries like Coco Cavalli, Myki Meeks, Orusha San Miguel, Beatrixxx Oddity, Black Magix Royal, Angelica Sanchez and Allegra D all putting on their undead best. Expect some of the Nosferatu players to be lurking and causing mischief as well, we’d wager.
Fangs crossed they can go back to the Ren soon.
9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, The Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave., rentheatre.org, $44-$108.
VBar: Condamned
Time Sat., Sept. 27, 9 p.m. and Sat., Oct. 4, 9 p.m. 2025
Location The Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave., Orlando
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