theater
ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Rivertown Theater, 401 Minor St., Kenner, 835-2186. Children's Theater of New Orleans' production of Lewis Carroll's classic. Cherie Ducote directs 36 area children and teens, with musical direction by Mary Duran. Tickets $8 adults, $6 children. Performances 1:30 p.m. Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.
AMAZING PLACE, THIS NEW ORLEANS. True Brew Theatre, 200 Julia St., 945-6798. Roberts Batson's solo performance that brings to life the history and characters that helped shape the story of New Orleans, based on his Scandal Tours. Tickets $20. Performances 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
CITIZEN NUMA. Martine's, 2347 Metairie Road, Metairie, 739-4091. One-man comedy written by and starring Christian Champagne as Numa "I Know Where You Got Your Shoes" Schexnaydre, an "Every-Yat." Tickets $10. Performances 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; through July 20.
COLD READ. Le Chat Noir, 715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812. Dramatization by Neil D. Bramwell of his latest mystery novel, Sam's Legacy. Free admission, one drink minimum. Performance 6 p.m. Wednesday.
DICKIE DOES BROADWAY. Le Chat Noir, 715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812. One-woman cabaret show starring Dickie DuFour, who performs selections from Sunset Boulevard, Cats, Evita and more. Tickets $16. Performance 8 p.m. Thursday, through July 18.
DIRTY BLONDE. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré, Directors Studio, 616 St. Peter St., 522-2081. Broadway comedy set in present-day New York City covering the unique and unlikely relationship of two die-hard Mae West fans. Carl Walker directs Becky Allen, Bob Edes Jr. and Charlie Owens. Tickets $26. Performances 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, through Aug. 14. (For more, see the cover story.)
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS. Carlone's Dinner Theater, 100 N. Labarre Road, Metairie, 838-9906. Sandy Roads Productions presents Neil Simon's comedy. Dane Rhodes directs Jerry Lee Leighton, Jennifer Pagan, Ann Casey and Stacey Talliancich. Tickets $37 with dinner, $26.50 with coffee/dessert. Performances 8:15 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, through July 28 (meals precede performance).
LATE NIGHT CATECHISM. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré, Directors Studio, 616 St. Peter St., 522-2081. The "Sister" teaches an adult catechism class and alternately rewards and chastises her students. Amanda Hebert stars. Tickets $21 Thursday and Sunday, $26 Friday and Saturday. Performances 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday. Open run.
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. Tulane University, Lupin Theater, 865-5105. Shakespeare's comedy examining the games of love resulting from the King of Navarre's ban of women from his court. Part of The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane. Aimée Michel and Clare Moncrief direct. Tickets $25 adults, $22 students and $12.50 children (half-price preview performances Thursday and Friday). Performances 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, through July 28. (Reviewed in this issue.)
MISERY. Anthony Bean Community Theater, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., 862-PLAY. Stage adaption of Stephen King's novel Misery about a popular romance artist held prisoner by a deranged fan. Anthony Bean directs Shriff Hasan and Claudia Baumgarten. Tickets $16 general admissin, $14 seniors and students. Performances 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.
PHANTOM. Dixon Hall, Tulane University, 865-5269. Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane presentation of musical version of Gaston Leroux's classic story of a disfigured musical genius living beneath the Paris Opera. Tickets $22-$29. Performances 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, July 11-13, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.
POLITICS WITH A PUNCH. Le Chat Noir, 715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812. Roundtable discussion of politics led by Jeff Crouere with this week's guest panelists Gennifer Flowers, Marc Morial, Chris Rose and John Slade. Tickets $21. 8 p.m. Monday, July 15.
POP TARTS. The Shim Sham Club, 615 Toulouse St., 606-9903. Running with Scissors' musical parody of contemporary pop music, following the rise and fall of fictional boy band A La Mode. Written by Richard Read, Flynn De Marco and Dorian Rush. Tickets $12-$15. Performances 8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, through Aug. 4.
RUMPELSTILSKIN. Tulane University, Rogers Memorial Chapel, Broadway St. between Oak and Zimple streets, 865-5106. The Patchwork Players, Tulane's improvisational children's theater company, presents the classic fairy tale. Buzz Podewell directs. Tickets $6. Performances 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Tuesday-Friday, through July 20.
SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE. Le Chat Noir, 715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812. Storer Boone Award winner by John Grimsley and Dog and Pony Theater interprets the Stevie Wonder album. Directed by Grimsley and Natascha C. Bolden. Tickets $16. Performances 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, through July 20.
THE CASE OF FRIAR LAWRENCE. Le Chat Noir, 715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812. The Shakespeare on Trial series continues, this time with the audience as jury weighing the case against the friar in Romeo and Juliet who gave the fatal drugs to Juliet. Featuring actors, Loyola Law School students and district court judges. Produced by Kara Hadigan, Dane Rhodes and Michael Sullivan. Tickets $11, law students with ID $8. Performance 8 p.m. Tuesday.
art
Venues preceded by an asterisk are celebrating opening receptions this week. Call each space for information.
A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY 322 Royal St., 568-1313 -- Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson, through July 14; photos by Edward Curtis, through Aug. 30; photos by Jan Saudek, through Aug. 15; photos by Marion Post Wolcott, through Sept. 15.
ABITA ART GALLERY 72078 Maple St., Abita Springs, (985) 867-3323 -- Water, paintings of swamps, lakes, oceans, etc., by gallery artists, through July.
ACADEMY GALLERY New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, 5256 Magazine St., 899-8111 -- The Annual Student Exhibition, through July 20.
*ARIODANTE 535 Julia St., 524-3233 -- Furniture by Darrin Butler; works by Haitian artist Marithou, through July.
ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY 432 Julia St., 522-1999 -- Straight to Video, works by John Waters; works by Michelle Elmore, through July 19.
BARRISTER'S GALLERY 1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 525-2767 -- Displaced, group show of documentary photographs of New Orleans housing projects; group show of work by the visual arts faculty at Country Day, through July.
BRUNNER GALLERY 215 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 893-0444 -- Visiting Familiar Places, paintings by Jerry Greenberg, through Aug. 3.
CAMERON JONES 2127 Magazine St., 524-3119 -- Group show by 12 local artists including George Ufford, Marcel Flisiuk, Ruth Marie Wright and Chris Clark, through July.
CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130 -- Group show of gallery artists including Karen Jacobs and Sonia Kouyoumdjian, through July.
COLE PRATT GALLERY 3800 Magazine St., 891-6789 -- Black-and-white show of paintings, photographs, prints and sculpture, through July.
*CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER 900 Camp St., 523-1216 -- When Time Stands Still, photos by David Halliday; Southern Contemporary, group show of works from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
CRESCENT GALLERY 531 Wilkinson Row, 525-5255 -- Shades of Patriotism, group show of red-, white- and blue-themed landscapes, nudes and still-lifes, through July 22.
D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 524-3936 -- Annual group exhibition, through July.
ENOCH'S FRAMING AND GALLERY 4001 Baronne St., 897-2603 -- Watercolors by Walter Anderson, oil paintings by Gustavo Trujillo, through July.
EVANS GALLERY 3815 Magazine St., 897-2688 -- Paintings by Janet McGreal, sculpture by Jason Kimes, through July.
GALERIE LAFITTE 533 St. Louis St., 524-0105 -- Paintings by Gustavo Duque, Christina Juran, and Jordan Ivanov; sculptures by Karen Cauvin Eustis; metal furniture by Herman Kron, through July.
*GALERIE SIMONNE STERN 518 Julia St., 529-1118 -- Sculpture by Kevin Kennedy; new work by Nat Lakin, Mitchell Long and Emily Sartor, through July.
GALLERIES AT THE SAULET1420 Annunciation St., 586-9800 -- Get It While It's Hot, emerging artists show featuring work by Tim Frisby, David Rex Joyner, Morgana King, Daphne Loney, Melanie T. Scott and Dan Tague, through July 14.
HANSON GALLERY 229 Royal St., 524-8211 -- Group show of gallery artists including Edward Povey and Steve Taylor, through July.
HERIARD-CIMINO GALLERY 440 Julia St., 525-7300 -- Daylight is Dangerous, photographs by Mick Vovers; group show by gallery artists, through July.
HUBER HOUSE GALLERY 1522 St. Charles Ave., 561-0628 -- Works by Garland Robinette, through July.
JOHN PRODUCT GALLERY 2027 Magazine St., 581-5280 -- First Annual Going Out of Business Sale, works by Lisa C. Soto and John Product, through July.
JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY 841 Carondelet St., 522-5471 -- Simple Moments, steel sculpture by Gina Laguna; Complexities, paintings by Jeffrey Pitt, through July 15.
KURT E. SCHON 510 St. Louis St., 524-5462; 523 Royal St., 523-5902 -- French Salon paintings by French artists such as Etienne-Philippe Martin, David Dellepiane, and others, through July.
LA BELLE GALERIE 309 Chartres St., 529-3080 -- Showcasing one of the largest collections of African-American art in the country, including the 2002 Essence Festival poster.
LALLYBROCH 240 Pelican Ave., Old Algiers Point, 362-2226 -- Paintings and shadow boxes by Jon Bright, through July.
LEMIEUX GALLERIES 332 Julia St., 522-5988 -- New paintings by Margaret Ross Tolbert, through July 27.
MARGUERITE OESTREICHER FINE ARTS 720 Julia St., 581-9253 -- Group show of 17th, 18th, and 19th century original drawings; works on paper by Austrian artist Gerhard Muller, through July.
MARIO VILLA GALLERY 3908 Magazine St., 895-8731 -- Group show of gallery artists, through August.
NEIGHBORHOOD GALLERY 1410 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 524-8800 -- Save America's Treasures, pictorial exhibit of the lower St. Charles Avenue corridor.
N.O. SCHOOL OF GLASSWORKS & PRINTMAKING STUDIO 727 Magazine St., 529-7277 -- Group show featuring work by William Gudenrath, Curtis Brock, Lauren Brown and Kerrie Partridge, through July.
*POET'S GALLERY 3113 Magazine St., 899-4100 -- Photography and mixed-media retrospective by Lisa Conrad, through July. (Reviewed in this issue.)
RIVERBEND GALLERY 1000 S. Carrollton, 862-0111 -- The art of Christian Jules LeBlanc, through July.
SOREN CHRISTENSEN 400 Julia St., 569-9501 -- Group show of gallery artists, through July.
SPACE GALLERY 4528 Magazine St., 897-9119 -- Artists and Models: Self Portraits with Collaborators, paintings by Spencer Livingston; paintings by Robyn Menzel; photographs by Jorge Quinonez, through July.
STELLA JONES GALLERY Bank One Center, 201 St. Charles Ave., 568-9050 -- Windows of the Soul, Series VI, new work by Phoebe Beasley and Helen Ramsaran, through Aug. 16.
STEVE MARTIN STUDIO/GALLERY 624 Julia St., 566-1390 -- New Abstractions, group show curated by Dan Teague, through July.
SYLVIA SCHMIDT GALLERY 400A Julia St., 522-2000 -- Works by Ken Hanning, Katherine Keller, Pamela Sun and Madeline Faust, through July.
TODD'S GALLERY 900 Louisa St., 319-3250 -- Group show of works by 20 mentally retarded artists, through July 15 (by appointment only).
WILLIAMS & JOSEPH GALLERY 713 Royal St., 566-7009 -- Photographs by Christopher Porche West, through August; recent work by Barrett Debusk, through October.
WYNDY MOREHEAD FINE ARTS 3926 Magazine St., 269-8333 -- Group show of gallery artists, through July.
spare spaces
1896 O'MALLEY HOUSE BED AND BREAKFAST 120 S. Pierce St., 488-5896 -- Past and current paintings by Ralph Chabaud, through August.
JEFFERSON PARISH LIBRARY EAST BANK REGIONAL 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, 838-1100-- Captured on Canvas: Louisiana Paintings and the Artists Who Created Them, through July 10.
museums
HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION 533 Royal St., 523-4662; Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres St., 598-7171 -- A Visible Presence, a Legacy of Service: 275 Years of the Ursulines in New Orleans, through Dec. 14.
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, 488-2631 -- A Brush With History: Portraits from the National Gallery, through Aug. 11; Eyes on the Road, group show of black-and-white photographs of highways, through August.
NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY 219 Loyola Ave., 596-2567 -- The Double Victory -- African Americans in World War II: Fighting on Two Fronts, through July.
OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART 603 Julia St., 539-9600 -- Photos from Jack Kotz's new book, Ms. Booth's Garden, through July 26; New Photographs: Recent acquisitions of the Ogden Museum. (Reviewed in this issue.)
books
Wednesday 10
ROBERT MYKLE. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135. Author discussions and signs Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928. Free admission. 7 p.m.
Saturday 13
RICHARD CAMPANELLA. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135. Author discusses and signs Time and Place in New Orleans: Past Geographies in the Present Day. Free admission. 1 p.m.
PATRICK DUNNE. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135. Southern Accents columnist discusses and signs The Epicurean Collector. Free admission. 2 p.m.
Thursday 11
BEN LAZICH. Beaucoup Books, 5414 Magazine St., 895-2663. New Orleans Wine Seller owner leads tasting guide to California wines with Wines of California, A Mitchell Beazley Wine Guide by Stephen Brook. Free admission. 5 p.m.
ELAINE PINKERTON. Maple Street's Old Metairie Bookshop, 200 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-8937. Editor signs From Calcutta with Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard. Free admission. 7 p.m.
Saturday 13
ELAINE PINKERTON. The National D-Day Museum, 945 Magazine St., 527-6012. Editor signs From Calcutta With Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard. Free admission. Noon to 4 p.m.
