Blackwell Auditorium More than 300 Ashland residents come together for "Growing Up, Ashland Style," a musical variety show to benefit the Hanover Arts and Activities Center, at Randolph-Macon College, March 17-19 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10-$15. 798-7123.
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen The Eleone Dance Theater performs "From These Roots" and other works, March 16 at 7 p.m. and March 17 at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Free. Also, the On-the-Air Players perform March 22-23 at 8 p.m. Free. 2880 Mountain Road. 501-5115.
Firehouse Theatre Project The Celtic dancers of Ireland's Altnaveigh House present "Piping Hot," a performance of traditional dance and Celtic drumming, March 16 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20. 1609 W. Broad St. 355-2001.
Pine Camp Arts and Community Center The Richmond Ensemble Theatre presents a staged reading of "Copenhagen," about the meeting of two physicists during the atomic age, March 19-21 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8-$11. 4901 Old Brook Road. 278-8749
Ongoing
Firehouse Theatre The Firehouse Theatre Project presents Clay Chapman's "Volume of Smoke," based on the 1811 Richmond Theatre fire, Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. Through March 19. Tickets are $20. 1609 W. Broad St. 355-2001.
Mystery Dinner Playhouse "Murder Came From Outer Space," a sci-fi dinner-theater mystery, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. at the Governor's Inn-Best Western. Through June 11. Tickets are $36.95. 9826 Midlothian Turnpike. 649-2583.
Richmond Ballet The Richmond Ballet presents "Destination New York" at the Studio Theatre, through March 20 at 8 p.m. with 2 p.m. weekend matinees. Tickets are $25-$30. 407 E. Canal St. 344-0906.
Swift Creek Mill Theatre "Caught in the Net," a comedy about a bigamist cab driver, Thursdays-Sundays at 8 p.m. with 2 p.m. matinees. Through May 28. Tickets are $29.25-$41.25.
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