theater
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 songs of the
Fab Four. Fans invited to bring memorabilia. Tickets $10, $8 students and seniors.
8 p.m. Monday. Open run.
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 $21; reduced prices for the service industry. 7:30 p.m.
Mondays. Open run.
GALATOIRE'S MONOLOGUES. Le Chat
Noir, 715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812. The return of Chris Rose's take on
the controversy and backlash following the firing of an old-line Galatoire's
waiter. Stars Rose, Redbean and Dr. Brobson Lutz with music from Harry Maryonne
Jr. Tickets $19. 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday.
GRENADINE MCGUNKLE'S DOUBLE-WIDE CHRISTMAS.
735 Club, 735 Bourbon St., 606-9903. Running With Scissors presents
the musical of housewife Grenadine McGunkle and her trailer park family get-together.
Stars Dorian Rush, Flynn De Marco, Bianca Del Rio, Jason Toups and others. Tickets
$17. 8:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday; through Dec. 27.
HOLLYWOOD HEAVEN. Le Chat Noir,
715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812. The Producers Circle look at 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 $21. 6 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. 9 p.m. Sunday. Open run.
MY JOHNSON SPEAKS. Le Petit Theatre
du Vieux Carré, Director's Studio, 616 St. Peter St., 522-2081. The
comedy that investigates and celebrates man's greatest obsession. Fred Nuccio
directs Tony Molina, Jerry Lee Leighton and Dane Rhodes. Tickets $26. 7:30 p.m.
Friday-Saturday. Open run.
THE PECAN CRACKER. NORD Theatre,
545 St. Charles Ave., 565-7860. NORD Theatre presents musical comedy about
a cast and crew staging a production of The Nutcracker in Da Parish.
Ty Tracy directs Rudy Rasmussen, Helen Blanke and Gia Rabito; book and lyrics
by Ricky Graham and Bob Bruce, music by Pete Tchaikovsky. Tickets $10. 8 p.m.
Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Saenger
Theatre, 143 N. Rampart St., 525-1052. Andrew Lloyd Webber's award-winning
musical about the masked figure haunting a Paris opera house and the young soprano
he falls in love with. Tickets $18-$62.25. 8 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday,
2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday; through Jan. 4.
art
AGORA 2240
Magazine St., 525-2240 -- Works on display by Daryn Brammell, Shmuela Berg,
Susan Brechtel, Elaine Gleason, John Kenny, Nell Mabry, Tony Mose, GVN, Lynette
Walker, and Kent Walsh.
ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY 432 Julia St.,
522-1999 -- Sneewittchen (Snow White), the first exhibit in Blake
Boyd's 11-part multi-media Romantika series, through Dec. 27. (Reviewed
in this issue.)
BARRISTER'S GALLERY 1724 Oretha
Castle Haley Blvd., 525-2767 -- Bulletproof, works by David Bradshaw, through
Dec. 27; Other Voices, Other Rooms, new paintings by Myrtle Von Damitz
III, through Jan. 24, 2004.
BERGERON STUDIO & GALLERY 516 Natchez
St., 522-7503 -- Group show featuring black-and-white photographs
by Bob Coke, Frank Gordon, Theodore Fonville Winans, C. Bennette Moore and C.F.
Weber, through Jan. 13, 2004.
BERTA'S AND MINA'S ANTIQUITIES GALLERY
4138 Magazine St., 895-6201 -- New paintings by Nilo Lanzas and artworks
by Mila Lanzas, through December.
DLKART FINE ART GALLERY 2027 Magazine
St., 299-1756 -- The Women's Series by Dianna L. Kaufman and Bio-Morphic
Abstractions by Deile Smith, through December.
D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 524-3936
-- New sculpture by Marianne Lerbs and paintings by Carrie Christian, through
Jan. 8, 2004.
GALERIE ROYALE 3646 Magazine St.,
894-1588 -- Mixed-media works by Michael Klung, through Jan. 24, 2004.
A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY 241
Chartres St., 568-1313 -- Ophelia's Garden, new panoramic series
by Josephine Sacabo, through December.
GALLERY NATALY AND ME 6071 Magazine
St., 891-6173 -- Paintings, jewelry and other works by Russian artist Natasha
Mylius.
HERIARD-CIMINO GALLERY 440 Julia St., 525-7300
-- Recent paintings by Mark Davis, through December. (Reviewed in this issue.)
HANSON GALLERY 229 Royal St., 524-8211
-- Sanctuaries, landscapes in oil and pastels by Adrian Deckbar,
plus new paintings by Joseph Lorusso.
IAN GALLERY 2917 Magazine St., Suite
102, 894-8385 -- Coastal Living, new photographs by Michael Kahn,
through Jan. 30, 2004.
JOHN STINSON FINE ARTS 900 S. Peters
St., 566-1944 -- New Orleans and the North Shore, historic photos
by New Orleans Camera Club founder Albert DuQuesnay, through December.
JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY 841 Carondelet
St., 522-5471 -- Rift This -- Rift That, paintings by Boris Zakic, through
Jan. 1, 2004.
KURT E. SCHON 510 St. Louis St.,
524-5462; 523 Royal St., 523-5902 -- Paintings of children from the 19th
century by Edmund Rode Adler, Jean Geoffrey and other Austrian, English and
French traditional artists, through December.
LEMIEUX GALLERIES 332 Julia St.,
522-5988 -- Photographs by Bobby Wozniak, through Dec. 27.
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.
MAGAZINE STREET GALLERY 5207 Magazine
St., 897-5330 -- Group show featuring works by Fred Marchman, Kaye Wall
Hoffman, Phyllis Springen, Susan Acree, Mannie Pair and Bruce Larsen.
MARGUERITE OESTREICHER FINE ARTS 720 Julia
St., 581-9253 -- Politics and War, new ceramic sculpture by Joe Bova,
through Dec. 27.
MORGAN-WEST STUDIO/GALLERY 3326
Magazine St., 895-7976 -- gnostic: devotions, group show by 17 artists,
through December.
NEIGHBORHOOD GALLERY 1410 Oretha
Castle Haley Blvd., 524-8800 -- From Cotton to Canvas, creative designs
by Judy Dixon, Brenda McClure and Latifah Ali, through Jan. 9, 2004.
NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS/RIVERFRONT
2800 Chartres St., 940-2787 -- Alumni Exhibit features artworks
by graduates from the classes of 1980 through 2003, through Jan. 23, 2004. Selected
alumni works on loan from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Ogden Collection
are on display in the Trusty-Corey Atrium through March 12, 2004.
RIVERTOWN FINE ART GALLERY 322 Williams
Blvd., Kenner, 468-7224 -- Group show featuring Marie Goodfellow, Jeannie
Schuler, Joyce Laporte, Lee Caruso Schnell, Claire Pescay, Jan Wilken, Betty
Porche and Susan Yancich, through Jan. 7, 2004.
SABLE V GLASS ART AND CONTEMPORARY CRAFT GALLERY
3420 Magazine St., 894-4444 -- Art for the Holidays, stemware
by Teri Walker, platters by Alexandra Callner, and blown vessels by Art Allison,
through Dec. 30.
SERENITY GALLERY 126 Main St., Bay
St. Louis, Miss. (228) 467-3061 -- Nudes, works by Lori K. Gordon, through
December.
SPACE GALLERY 4528 Magazine St.,
897-9119 -- XY: Images of Men, group show by local artists,
through January 2004.
STEVE MARTIN STUDIO/GALLERY 624 Julia St.,
566-1390 -- Retrospective of drawings, oil paintings, watercolors
and monographs by Zella Funck, through December.
SYLVIA SCHMIDT GALLERY 400A Julia
St., 522-2000 -- Lightboxes by Nancy Gutkin O'Neil, wall sculptures by Richard
Taylor, glass works by Kenny Pieper, through Jan. 5, 2004.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FINE ARTS GALLERY
2000 Lakeshore Drive, 280-6493 -- UNO Fine Arts Senior Project Exhibition,
through Jan. 9, 2004.
VINTAGE 429 429 Royal St., 529-2288 --
Presidential Collection, official White House portraits, carte de viste
portrait cards, and signed photos and documents of several American presidents.
WAITING ROOM GALLERY 904 Pauline
St., 949-1805 -- Remains of State, installation by Mathew Nesbit; and Imperial
Crypts, mixed media by John Thornton, through Jan. 1, 2004.
spare spaces
CAFE DEGAS 312 Esplanade Ave., 945-5635
-- Signs -- Of Life, photographs by Elinor S. Cohen, through Jan.
5, 2004.
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
Visitors' Center, 916 N. Peters St., 589-4841 -- New Orleans jazz photographs
by L.J. Goldstein, through January 2004.
TURNCOATS 1926 Magazine St., 299-9004
-- Rio-1, photographs by Blake Haney, through Jan. 30, 2003.
museums
CABILDO Jackson Square, 568-6990
-- Exhibit celebrating the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase includes new
installation, One Nation Under God: The Church, The State, and the Louisiana
Purchase, through December.
HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
533 Royal St., 523-4662; Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres St., 598-7171
-- The Aftermath of the Louisiana Purchase, stories and portraits of Louisiana
residents of the era, through December; Napoleon's Eyewitness: Pierre Clément
Laussat in Louisiana, 1802-1804, through March 2004.
LAFAYETTE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM
433 Jefferson St., Lafayette, (337) 291-5544 -- Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession,
72 works by the renowned artist, through Jan. 4, 2004.
LOUISIANA ART AND SCIENCE MUSEUM 100
S. River Road, Baton Rouge, (225) 382-3575; (800) LA ROUGE -- Joséphine,
Le Grand Amour de Napoléon, illuminating the life of Josephine Bonaparte
with more than 150 artworks and personal possessions, through Feb. 1, 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.
LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM'S PRESBYTERE 751
Chartres St., 568-6968 -- Crown Jewels of Carnival, royal jewels
from the 1870s to the 1930s assembled by Mardi Gras designer Henri Schindler,
through Dec. 5, 2004.
NEW ORLEANS AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM OF
ART, CULTURE AND HISTORY 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., 527-0989 -- Photographs
by Jim Thorns, J. Nash Porter and Eric Waters.
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART 1 Collins
Diboll Circle, City Park, 488-2631 -- Journeys Real and Imagined in Edo-Period
Painting, through December; The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient
Egypt, rare ancient art from the Egyptian national collection, through Feb.
25, 2004.
NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY 219 Loyola
Ave., 596-2567 -- A Great and Growing City: New Orleans in the Era of
the Louisiana Purchase, through December.
OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART 925
Camp St., 539-9600 -- The Story of the South: Art and Culture
1890-2003, through May 2004.
OLD U.S. MINT 400 Esplanade Ave.,
568-6990 -- The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana
Purchase to Today, featuring unpublished images by photographer Sam Abell,
through May 2004.
books
Tuesday 23
FRANK DAVIS. Barnes
& Noble, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-4929. Local author
signs his series of cookbooks, including the new The Fisherman's Tackle Box
Bible. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
FRANK DAVIS. B.Dalton, Lakeside
Shopping Center, 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 837-2868. Local
author signs his series of cookbooks, including the new The Fisherman's Tackle
Box Bible. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
