theater
ALL MY SONS. Southern Repertory
Theatre, Shops at Canal Place, third floor, 522-6545. Arthur Miller's classic
post-World War II drama dealing with morality and personal tragedy during and
after war. Perry Martin directs Randy Cheramie, Adriana Bate, Janet Shea and
Bob Edes. Tickets $25. Performances 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday,
through Sept. 28. (Reviewed in this issue.)
AMERICAN POPULAR SONG. Tulane University,
Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel, 286-0440 or 861-4139. Reprise presents
a musical revue celebrating the two centuries since the Louisiana Purchase.
Featuring Janie Kreisman, Saul Schneider, Stuart Farber and Orlin Corey. Tickets
$10 in advance, $15 at door. Performance 2 p.m. Sunday.
ANNIE. Slidell Little Theatre, 2024
Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 641-0324. SLT holds over the musical that follows
the Depression-era orphan from rags to riches. Tickets $17 adults, $10 youth.
Performances 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, through Sept. 28.
BEATLES 4-EVER. True Brew Theater,
200 Julia St., 524-8440. Mikko presents a celebration of the Beatles playing
City Park in 1964. Star Greg DiLeo shares memories and performs Fab Four songs.
Fans invited to bring memorabilia. Tickets $10, $8 students and seniors. Performances
8 p.m. Monday. Open run.
THE BLACK AND WHITE BLUES. Le Chat
Noir, 715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812. Musical cabaret exploring New Orleans'
obsession with food, presented from service workers' point of view. Bob Edes
and Heidi Junius star. Tickets $27, includes $6 bar minimum. Performances 7:30
p.m. Mondays. Open run.
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. Southern
Repertory Theatre, The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., third floor, 522-6545.
The Evangeline Theatre Co. and the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary
Festival present a costumed, staged reading of the John Kennedy Toole classic.
Perry Martin directs John McConnell, Becky Allen and Randy Cheramie. Tickets
$15. Performance 8 p.m. Sunday.
CRESCENT CITY. Le Chat Noir, 715
St. Charles Ave., 581-5812. WWNO public radio produces special show to be
recorded live for rebroadcast. Features host Ronnie Virgets, house band Astral
Project, and actors Ricky Graham, Sean Patterson and Becky Allen as The Live
Nude Radio Players. Theme: "Education: New Orleans Style." Tickets $16 plus
$6 bar minimum. Performance 8 p.m. Tuesday.
FOREVER PLAID. Le Petit Theatre
du Vieux Carré, 616 St. Peter St., 522-2081. Musical tells the story
of four guys who met in high school and love to sing, and their dreams of rising
to stardom. Derek Franklin and Sonny Borey direct Patrick Mendelson, Mark Weinberg,
Bryan Wagar and Brian Rosenberg. Tickets $26. Performances 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday,
2 p.m. Sunday, through Oct. 5.
FREAK-A-RAMA! Body and Soul Hall,
535 Marigny St., 943-8929. Whatta LewLew Productions presents
the story of two women on a road trip through the South. Lewis Routh and Tim
Greeley star. Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at door. Performances 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday.
Open run.
THE HAUNTED HOST. Cowpokes Theatre
Space, 1030 Marigny St., 948-9924. DRAMA! presents the tragi-comedy about
a ghostly encounter between a Greenwich Village writer and a young college man.
Daniel LaForce directs Blake Balu and Richard Alexander Pomes. Tickets $10 in
advance, $12 day of show, $7 students. Performances 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday,
3 p.m. Sunday, through Sept. 28.
HOLLYWOOD HEAVEN. Le Chat Noir,
715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812. The Producers Circle presents the cabaret
that gives mortals a peek into the lives of Hollywood stars residing in the
area of heaven dedicated to the rich and famous. Writer and director Ricky Graham
stars with Roy Haylock. Tickets $18 Thursday, $21 Friday-Saturday, plus $6 drink
minimum. Performances 9 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Saturday,
through Sept. 28.
HYSTERICAL HISTORY OF NEW ORLEANS. The
Club in the Fine Arts Center, 3916 Baronne St., 269-3922. David "The Nac"
Naccari presents a comical telling of New Orleans' unique history and culture
with Mike Strecker and Marion Wikholm. Tickets $10. Performances 7:30 p.m. Thursdays,
through Sept. 25.
LIFE, LIBERTY AND SOCIAL SECURITY. True
Brew Theater, 200 Julia St., 524-8440. Farce with 3,000-year-old woman demanding
Social Security payments owed from her life, which includes hundreds of marriages
to figures such as Moses and Mark Twain. Buzz Podewell directs Gia Rabito and
Gavin Mahlie. Tickets $23. Performances 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.
LIL' BEAUX PEEP SHOW. The Howlin'
Wolf, 828 S. Peters St., 529-5844. Burlesque show featuring Sadie Corsette,
Madame Femme Petite and others. Tickets $10. Performance 9 p.m. Sunday. Open
run.
THE MERCY SEAT. NOCCA/Riverfront,
Nims Black Box Theatre, 2800 Chartres St., 940-2875. Neil LaBute's work
explores the options and moral dilemmas one couple faces in their loft apartment
blocks from the World Trade Center in the hours after 9/11. Karl Lengel directs
Ashley Nolan and Ryan Rilette. Tickets $20. Performances 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday,
2 p.m. Sunday. (Reviewed in this issue.)
THE MUSIC MAN. Rivertown Repertory
Theatre, 325 Minor St., Kenner, 468-7221. The Tony Award-winning musical
about a con man's attempts to swindle a small town. Alton Geno directs and choreographs;
Jimmy Murphy, Brandi Cotogno, Helen Blanke and Susan Barrett Smith star. Tickets
$22 adults, $20 seniors and students, $12 children. Pre-performance buffet by
Messina's, $16. Performances 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, through
Oct. 5.
SEE HOW THEY RUN. Playmakers Theatre,
1601 Playmakers Road, Covington, (985) 893-1671. Playmakers presents farce
revolving around a vicar's wife and the trouble she has juggling the people
in her life. Jill Lane directs. Tickets $10, $5 students. Performances 8 p.m.
Friday-Saturday; through Sept. 27.
SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO. Southern
Repertory Theatre, The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., third floor, 522-6545.
Evangeline Theatre Co. presents David Mamet's sexually charged work about
four young professionals in Chicago. Perry Martin directs Sean Patterson, Gary
Rucker, Lori McWhorter and Angie Joachim. Tickets $12. Performance 11 p.m. Saturday,
through Sept. 27.
TOPDOG/UNDERDOG. Contemporary Arts
Center, 900 Camp St., 528-3800. Dog & Pony Theatre Co. presents Suzan Lori
Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about two street-smart brothers playing
a deadly game of Three Card Monty. John Grimsley directs Lance Nichols and Don
Guillory. Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at door, $2 discount for CAC members and
students. Performances 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, through
Sept. 27.
art
Venues preceded by an asterisk are celebrating
opening receptions this week. Call each space for information.
*3 RING CIRCUS' THE BIG TOP GALLERY 1638
Clio St., 569-2700 -- Framed, new works by photographer Shannon Brinkman
and painter Suzanne E. Saunders, through Oct. 11.
THE ACADEMY GALLERY New Orleans
Academy of Fine Arts, 5256 Magazine St., 899-8111 -- 2003 Faculty Exhibition,
through Sept. 27.
AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER ART GALLERY Tilton
Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., 865-5535 -- Celebrating
Celebrities, photographs by Carl Van Vechten, through September.
ARIODANTE 535 Julia St., 524-3233
-- Roberto Rincon photographs, through Oct. 4.
ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY PROJECT SPACE
730 Tchoupitoulas St., 522-1999 -- Paintings and sculpture by Ida Kohlmeyer,
through Oct. 25.
AXELLE FINE ARTS GALERIE ROYALE 709
Royal St., 299-1666 -- New paintings by Jacques Godin and Patrick Pietropoli,
through September.
BARLOW ART GALLERY 805 Royal St.,
523-2964 -- An Evening of Music and Art, oil paintings by Jamie P.,
Savoy, Ronald Jones and Carson, through Sept. 20.
BARRISTER'S GALLERY 1724 Oretha
Castle Haley Blvd., 525-2767 -- The Vices, works by John Lawson and Julie
Crozat, through October. (Reviewed in this issue.)
BASSETTI FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHS 233
Chartres St., 529-9811 -- Gelatin silver photographs by Tom Baril, Jennifer
Shaw and Nicholas Pavloff, through September.
BOCKMAN DESIGN 4513 Magazine St.,
891-8785 -- Aotearoa, artworks from New Zealand, through Nov. 8.
BRUNNER GALLERY 215 N. Columbia
St., Covington, (985) 893-0444 -- Paintings by Dennis Johnson, wood-fired
clay vessels by Bill Kremer, through Oct. 4.
BRYANT GALLERIES 316 Royal St.,
525-5584 -- Paintings by Juan Medina, through September.
CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY 840 Napoleon
Ave., 895-6130 -- Juxtapositions, new paintings by Karen Jacobs,
through September.
COLE PRATT GALLERY 3800 Magazine
St., 891-6789 -- New Orleans Nen Plein Air, paintings by Phil Sandusky,
through September.
DILLARD UNIVERSITY FINE ART GALLERY Cook
Fine Arts Center, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., 816-4711 -- Multimedia works
by Monica Beasley, through September.
D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 524-3936
-- Paintings by Gregory Eltringham, through Oct. 2.
EVANS GALLERY 3815 Magazine St.,
897-2688 -- Paintings by Auguste Garufi, photographs by Sandra Russell Clark,
and bronze sculpture by Tom Corbin, through September.
FORT ISABEL GALLERY 401 N. Columbia
St., Covington, (985) 892-1841 -- Layered Connections, group show
by mixed-media artists Karen Abboud and Lynda Thurlow and clay artist Pat Watkins,
through Oct. 11.
GALERIE 313 313 Royal St., 299-9299
-- The Works of Mario Villa, through Sept. 21.
A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY 241
Chartres St., 568-1313 -- The Master and the Maestro, original photographs
by Yousuf Karsh and Herman Leonard, through September.
HANSON GALLERY 229 Royal St., 524-8211
-- Group exhibition of paintings and sculptures by gallery artists including
Peter Max, Raymond Douillet, Frederick Hart, Adrian Deckbar and Edward Povey,
through September.
HERIARD-CIMINO GALLERY 440 Julia
St., 525-7300 -- Oil Paintings and Watercolors by Thomas Sully, through
September.
IAN GALLERY 2917 Magazine St., Ste.
102, 894-8385 -- Group exhibit through September.
JOHN STINSON FINE ARTS 900 S. Peters
St., 566-1944 -- Photographs by Brad Edelman, through September.
JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY 841 Carondelet
St., 522-5471 -- No Dead Artists, juried exhibition of contemporary Louisiana
art, through Sept. 27.
LEMIEUX GALLERIES 332 Julia St.,
522-5988 -- Time: A Celebration of 20 Years, through Sept. 27.
LIONEL MILTON GALLERY 1818 Magazine
St., 522-6966 -- Throw Back, new paintings by Lionel Milton.
LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS 7 Bamboo
Road, 488-5488 -- It's a Small World: Dollhouse China and Glass in the
Longue Vue Collection, through June 2004.
MARGUERITE OESTREICHER FINE ARTS
720 Julia St., 581-9253 -- The Other Side of Heaven, paintings by Michelle
Muennig, through Sept. 27.
NEIGHBORHOOD GALLERY 1410 Oretha
Castle Haley Blvd., 524-8800 -- One With the Sun, folk art by Thomas
Gallagher, through Oct. 10.
NEWCOMB ART GALLERY Woldenberg Art
Center, Newcomb College/Tulane University, 865-5361 -- In Finite Spaces,
photographs by Doug Hall, through Sept. 28.
NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS/RIVERFRONT
2800 Chartres St., 940-2787 -- 2003 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition,
through Oct. 17.
NEW ORLEANS GLASSWORKS AND PRINTMAKING
STUDIO 727 Magazine St., 529-7277 -- Glass fabric weaving by Andrew
Brott, silver jewelry by Gerald Haessig, silk screen weaving by Miriam Martin,
daily demonstrations by varied artists, through September.
RIVERSTONE GALLERIES 719 Royal St.,
412-9882 New work by Michael Flohr, Thomas Stiltz, and Paul DeLafille,
through September.
SABLE V GLASS ART AND CONTEMPORARY CRAFT
GALLERY 3420 Magazine St., 894-4444 -- Glassworks by Susan
Gott, Henner Schroeder, Mark Abilgaard, Chris Mosey and Jeremy Neumann, through
Sept. 28.
ST. TAMMANY ART ASSOCIATION 317
N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650 -- Elliot Snellings Memorial
Photography Exhibit, through Oct. 10.
SOREN CHRISTENSEN 400 Julia St.,
569-9501 -- Paintings by Melissa Bonin, mixed-media paintings by Karoline
Schleh, through September.
SPACE GALLERY 4528 Magazine St.,
897-9119 -- The Origin of the World, group show featuring
works by Bunny Matthews, Spencer Livingston, Robyn Menzel and Missy Graham,
through September.
STELLA JONES GALLERY Bank One Center,
201 St. Charles Ave., 568-9050 -- Paintings by Wosene Worke Kosrof
and Antonio Carreno, through September.
SYLVIA SCHMIDT GALLERY 400A Julia
St., 522-2000 -- Paintings by Jordan Ivanov and Wade Welch, through September.
THOMAS MANN GALLERY I/O 1812 Magazine
St., 581-2113 -- Techno/Sketches: dimensional paper interpretations
of Mann's iconic heart and hand metal sculptures, through September.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FINE ARTS GALLERY
2000 Lakeshore Drive, 280-6493 -- Master's of Fine Arts group
exhibition, through September.
VINCENT MANN GALLERY 713 Bienville
St., 523-2342 -- Impressionist Landscapes, recent paintings by Luc
Didier, through September.
WAITING ROOM GALLERY 904 Pauline
St., 949-1805 -- Cineplasty, new video works by Courtney Egan, through Oct.
18.
spare spaces
NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEE HOUSE 5110
Daneel St., 891-3381 -- Paintings by Jane Brewster and Ashley Nicole, photographs
by Katya Becnel, through Oct. 25.
SUGAR MAGNOLIA 1910 Magazine St.,
529-1110 --New Orleans in Illusion, paintings by Mario Padilla.
WORLD TRADE CENTER 2 Canal St. ,
581-4888 -- Exhibit of Honduran paintings and crafts in celebration
of Honduras' Independence Day, through Sept. 20.
museums
CABILDO Jackson Square, 568-6990
-- Exhibit celebrating the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase, through 2003.
HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
533 Royal St., 523-4662; Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres St., 598-7171
-- Napoleon's Eyewitness: Pierre Clément Laussat in Louisiana, 1802-1804,
through March 2004.
LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
St. Augustine Church Hall, 1210 Gov. Nicholls St., 586-1919 -- The Historic
1811 LA Slave Revolt, The Slave Castles of West Africa, The African Roots of
the Underground Railroad.
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART 1 Collins
Diboll Circle, City Park, 488-2631 -- Journeys Real and Imagined in Edo-Period
Painting, through December; Louisiana Purchases: Photographs of Louisiana
From the New Orleans Museum of Art, through Oct. 19.
NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY 219 Loyola
Ave., 596-2567 -- A Great and Growing City: New Orleans in the Era of
the Louisiana Purchase, through 2003.
OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART 925
Camp St., 539-9600 -- The Story of the South: Art and Culture 1890-2003,
through May 2004.
books
Tuesday 16
TOM PIAZZA. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia
St., 899-READ. Award-winning fiction writer reads and signs his latest work,
My Cold War. 7 p.m.
Wednesday 17
NELSON EUBANKS. Beaucoup Books,
5414 Magazine St., 895-2663. New local author reads from and signs his
collection of short stories, The First Thing Smoking. 6:30 p.m.
Thursday 18
LANE SMITH. Maple Street Books, 7529 Maple St., 861-2105.
Illustrator of The Stinky Cheese Man signs copies of his new book,
The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country. 2:30 p.m.
JUDITH KELLEHER SCHAFER. Garden
District Bookshop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 895-2266. Local author signs
her latest work, Becoming Free, Remaining Free. 5 p.m.
Saturday 20
FATHER MATTHEW J O'ROURKE. Catholic
Book Store, 8039 Fig St., 861-7504. O'Rourke signs Between Law and Hope:
St. Augustine High School, NO, LA. 9:30 a.m.
LISA COHEN. Garden District Bookshop,
2727 Prytania St., 895-2266. Local illustrator signs her latest picture
book, Dancing the Ring Shout! 1 p.m.
