The Richmond Ballet’s “Nutcracker” will make a grand jeté to the new Carpenter Theatre this year with help from Dominion Resources. The energy company has donated $85,000 to the ballet as exclusive title sponsor for the 2009 production of “The Nutcracker” in Richmond’s CenterStage facility on Dec. 11-23 and Norfolk’s Chrysler Hall on Dec. 4-6.

It’s not official yet, but Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education has a new name. The school will become Union Presbyterian Seminary as soon as “legal and operational steps” are completed for the name change, said Philip G. Graham, interim director of communications for the seminary. That will take place no later than November, but the new name is already in use, he said.