Stage

Opening

ComedySportz Henrico High School’s Center for the Arts presents “My Name Is Alice” Feb. 22-23 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10. 7115-A Staples Mill Road. 266-9377.

Empire Theatre For Our Children Productions presents “The More Things Change … The More They Remain the Same,” a play about the potential dangers of the Patriot Act, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. Admission is $7-$15. 114 W. Broad St. 344-8040.

John Rolfe Middle School The Varina Junior Women’s Club presents the 36th Annual Dinner Theater, featuring Neil Simon’s “Rumors” Feb. 24-25 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10-$17.50. 6901 Messer Road. 737-0811.

Landmark Theater The Virginia Opera performs Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. Through Feb. 26. Tickets are $50-$80. 6 N. Laurel St. Call (866) 673-7282 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.

Ongoing

Barksdale Theatre The Barksdale Theatre presents “The Lark” through March 19. Tickets are $34-$38.

Also, Theater IV presents a children’s adaptation of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” through Mar. 26. Tickets are $12. 1601 Willow Lawn Drive. Call 344-8040 or www.theaterivrichmond.org.

Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen The Henrico Theater Company presents its “20th One-Act Showcase” featuring “The Best of Everything,” “Bitter Sweet Chocolates” and “Donegal Greens” at 8 p.m. through Feb. 26. Free, but reservations required. 2880 Mountain Road. 501-5859 or 501-5115.

Fieldens Cabaret Theatre The Richmond Triangle Players present “Southern Baptist Sissies” at 8 p.m. Through March 11. Tickets are $14-$16. 2033 W. Broad St. 346-8113.

Funny Bone Shakespeare’s 37 plays are covered in less than two hours in “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” every Monday at 8 p.m. through March 20. Tickets are $12. 11800 W. Broad St. 521-8900.

Hanover Tavern The Barksdale Theatre at Hanover Tavern presents Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” at 8 p.m. Through April 2. Tickets are $38. 13181 Hanover Courthouse Road. 282-2620.

Mystery Dinner Playhouse The dinner theater presents “The Butler’s Been Murdered!” a four-course mystery, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. in the Best Western Governor’s Inn. Through June 10. Tickets are $36.95. 9826 Midlothian Turnpike. Call 649-2583 or visit www.mysterydinner.com.

Science Museum of Virginia The Carpenter Science Theatre Company presents “Mysteries of Plasma: The Charles Drew Story,” at the Eureka Theatre, through March 3. Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m.; Saturday-Sunday 1 and 3 p.m. Tickets are $7-$8. 2500 W. Broad St. 864-1400.

Second Presbyterian Church The Richmond Shakespeare Theatre presents “Othello” at 8 p.m. with 2 p.m. Saturday matinees. Through April 8. Tickets are $13-$23. 5 N. Fifth St. (800) BARD-TIX.

Singleton Center VCU presents Anton Chekhov’s “The Three Sisters” at the Raymond Hodges Theater at 7:30 p.m. Through Feb. 26. Tickets are $5-$15. 922 Park Ave. 828-6026.

Swift Creek Mill Theatre The theater presents “The Miracle Worker,” the story of the relationship between Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, through March 4. Tickets are $28.50-$41.25. 17201 Jefferson Davis Highway. 748-5203.

Sycamore Rouge Lanford Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning love story “Talley’s Folly” runs through Feb. 26. Tickets are $15. 21 W. Old St. 957-5707.

VUU Performing Arts Theatre The VUU Department of Fine Arts presents “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf” in the Belgian Building at 4 p.m. Through Feb. 25. Tickets are $10. 1500 N. Lombardy St.

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