(May. 9 6:27 PM) - Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts has announced its entire 2012 Summer season, featuring 92 live performances and 108 days at the Filene Center amphitheater, nine evenings of opera at The Barns at Wolf Trap, and 34 performances at Wolf Trap's Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods. See below for recent additions to the line-up and schedule.

(May. 6 12:30 AM) - The Firehouse Theatre Project has announced auditions for A Bright New Boise, by Samuel D. Hunter, running Sept. 20 - Oct. 13, directed by Morrie Piersol. Auditions will take place today May 6 and tomorrow, May 7 from 7-10pm at Firehouse Theatre Project.

(May. 4 12:30 AM) - Dessa Rose, featuring Stacey Cabaj as Ruth, by Lynn Ahrens with music by Stephen Flaherty, is presented in a co-production with Firehouse Theatre Project and Richmond CenterStage. The show features music direction by Leilani Giles, choreography by Karen Getz and is directed by Richard M. Parison, Jr. It runs tonight, May 4 through June 3, 2012, Thurs.-Sat. at 8pm, Wed. May 23 at 2pm, and Sun. May 6, 13, 20, and June 3 at 4pm.

(May. 2 6:16 PM) - Producing Artistic Director Carolyn Griffin has announced that the final play of the season, Lonely Planet, by Steven Dietz, will be in performance May 10-June 17, 2012. (Note that this replaces the play that was originally announced for this time slot, Playing Sinatra). Dietz is one of the most prolific, versatile and widely produced playwrights in the country. Lonely Planet was written in 1994 and is considered a second generation AIDS play although the disease is never named. Dietz uses his obsession with maps and his connection with Ionesco’s The Chairs to write a play about friendship in the dawn of the AIDS crisis. The play won the PEN-USA Award for Drama.

(May. 2 2:26 PM) - SPARC has announced that tickets for LIVE ART have now gone on sale. The tickets can be purchased at www.sparconline.org/liveart. Tickets start at $35, for general admission.

(May. 1 12:39 PM) - Wolf Trap Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods 2012 season is now on-sale featuring a diverse array of performance genres including kindie rock, Latin, Afro-Caribbean, country, folk, jazz, bluegrass, and pop-rock, as well as Irish dance, ballet, puppetry, and musical theatre.

(Apr. 28 12:30 AM) - ShenanArts at the nTelos Theatre is holding auditions for its production of Legally Blonde, April 29 and 29, 1 to 4 p.m., for ages high school and up.

(Apr. 27 12:51 PM) - In honor of OpSail 2012, The Hurrah Players will present Anchors Away! Described as "a musical salute to our military and the most nautical performances from stage and screen, the whole family is welcome aboard our patriotic odyssey of song and dance!"

(Apr. 27 12:30 AM) - Theatre IV announces the return of Seussical the musical, to the Sara Belle and Neil November Theatre, running tonight, April 27 through Sunday, May 20, 2012. Based on the work of Dr. Seuss with music and lyrics by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, this production offers a new generation of kids the timeless story of friendship and community. Director, Chase Kniffen, calls Seussical, “the perfect family musical that will both touch and entertain all ages, from four to four hundred.” Seussical is one of several Theatre IV offerings in the Minds Wide Open: Virginia Celebrates Children and the Arts initiative.

(Apr. 27 12:30 AM) - Now in its ninth year, APASSIONATA Europe’s most successful live entertainment show, featuring more than 40 horses and seen by more than five million fans in over forty cities, will make its North American debut today, April 27, 2012, at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. The new show entitled “The Beginning” will kick off an eighteen month, sixty-six city arena North American tour.

(Apr. 25 7:41 PM) - DESSA ROSE, featuring Stacey Cabaj as Ruth, by Lynn Ahrens with music by Stephen Flaherty, will be presented in a co-production with Firehouse Theatre Project and Richmond CenterStage. The show features music direction by Leilani Giles, choreography by Karen Getz and is directed by Richard M. Parison, Jr. It runs May 4 - June 3, 2012, Thurs.-Sat. at 8pm, Wed. May 23 at 2pm, and Sun. May 6, 13, 20, and June 3 at 4pm.

(Apr. 20 9:32 PM) - Now in its ninth year, APASSIONATA Europe’s most successful live entertainment show, featuring more than 40 horses and seen by more than five million fans in over forty cities, will make its North American debut on April 27, 2012, at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. The new show entitled “The Beginning” will kick off an eighteen month, sixty-six city arena North American tour.

(Apr. 19 2:27 PM) - The Firehouse Theatre Project and Richmond CenterStage present the Civil War-Era musical Dessa Rose May 2 – June 3, 2012. Dessa Rose will be performed at the Firehouse Theatre and comes during Virginia’s commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War and Emancipation.

(Apr. 16 8:33 PM) - Barksdale Theatre presents the world premiere of Scorched Earth by local author David L. Robbins and directed by Steve Perigard. Scorched Earth is an intriguing courtroom drama that examines what happens when a community must face up to its racial heritage after a tragic event shakes it to its core. Part mystery, part legal thriller, it is a story of crime and punishment set in a small Virginia mill town during one brutal, hot and unforgiving summer that lays bare the potential of the human heart to hate-and ultimately to heal. See photos from the world premiere production below!

(Apr. 14 11:28 AM) - ShenanArts at the nTelos Theatre is holding auditions for its production of Legally Blonde, April 29 and 29, 1 to 4 p.m., for ages high school and up.

(Apr. 10 5:53 PM) - Guests will embark on a first-class virtual excursion to the four corners of the globe at Virginia Stage Company’s 2012 Spring Gala “All The World’s A Stage,” on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Benefits from the evening will proceed VSC’s CULTIVATE programs, which bring arts experiences to over 40,000 school children throughout Southeastern Virginia and into North Carolina each year

(Apr. 7 5:30 AM) - Richmond CenterStage wraps up its inaugural U.S. Trust Life is a Cabaret! Series: A Celebration of the Great American Song Book by welcoming award-winning Broadway star Sandra Reaves-Phillips to Rhythm Hall as she performs her show entitled Me, Myself, and You.

(Apr. 6 9:51 AM) - Firehouse Theatre Project, voted Richmond’s Best Theatre by Richmond Magazine in 2011, is now the home of a new project: THE THEATRE LAB.