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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Raindrop Waltz.

Shaun Spencer Hester never really knew her grandmother.

Endstation Theatre’s 2010 Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival lineup was partly inspired by an old barn that sits on the campus of Sweet Briar College.

Artistic director and co-founder Geoff Kershner says they did what they always do when it comes time to choose plays for the festival: “We pick a location, and then decide on a show that would work well with it.”

When two of Brian Dolenti’s friends died within a week of each other during the spring of 2008, he and a group of their surviving friends wanted to do something.

“We (began) thinking about (how) to kind of make some good out of a bad situation,” says Dolenti, a 2005 E.C. Glass High School graduate.

The group teamed up to create the Ad Astra Music Festival, now in its second year and scheduled for this weekend at the Sedalia Center in Big Island.

The Holiday Inn Select’s old lounge will be transformed into a 1940s-style jazz club this weekend.

The Little Dinner Theater Players’ latest interactive mystery show, “Spirits of Suspicion,” is a spoof of classic detective tales that takes place in the Top Hat Club.

Dance Theatre of Lynchburg’s annual Ballet Today performance will feature a piece Artistic Director Keith Lee hasn’t staged here since 2004.

e careful what you wish for.

That’s something most of the characters learn the hard way in “Into the Woods,” the latest production from the Academy of Fine Arts’ Academy Players.