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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. Mondays. 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.
GREASE. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré, 616 St. Peter St., 522-2081.
Classic musical capturing high-school romance in the 1950s. Brandt Blocker
directs Frankie Ford, Matthew Ragas and Amanda Zirkenbach. Tickets $26 adults,
$21 students and children. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, through Feb.
1.
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-director Ricky Graham stars with
Roy Haylock. Tickets $21. 6 p.m. Sundays. Open run.
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.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Tulane University, Dixon Hall, 865-5105,
ext. 2. The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane presents the classic comedy of
love and dreams. Aimee K. Michel directs Gavin Mahlie, Robin Baudier and Casie
Bordelon. Tickets $20 adults, $16 teachers, seniors and Tulane staff, $7 students
and theater professionals. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, through Jan. 16.
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.
SWEET CHARITY. Jefferson Performing Arts Center, 400 Phlox Street, 885-2000.
Musical inspired by 1957 Federico Fellini film Nights of Cabiria, in
which an eternally optimistic woman searches for true love. William McCrary directs
Cynthia Owen. Tickets $12-$26. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, through Jan.
18.
THAT DAMN LOVE. Le Chat Noir, 715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812. Musical
revue of favorites capturing aspects of love, dating, sex, marriage and more.
Stars Maryflynn Thomas and Phil Melancon. Tickets $16. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday.
auditions
THE MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940. Rivertown Repertory Theatre, 325
Minor St., Kenner, 468-7221. Auditions held for John Bishop's long-running
comedy. Director Gary Rucker seeks actors and actresses over age 25, plus African-American
actor over 35. Play runs in March 2004. Audition 11 a.m. Saturday.
art
galleries
3 ring circus' THE BIG TOP GALLERY 1638 Clio St., 569-2700 -- Inventory,
works by David Rex Joyner, through February.
THE ACADEMY GALLERY New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, 5256 Magazine
St., 899-8111 -- Dorothy J. Coleman retrospective, through Feb. 20.
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.
ARIODANTE 535 Julia St., 524-3233 -- New photographs by Nancy
Moylan, through Feb. 6.
ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY 432 Julia St., 522-1999 -- Paintings and drawings
by Paul Cadmus and photographs by Greg Gorman, through Feb. 28.
BARRISTER'S GALLERY 1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 525-2767 -- Other
Voices, Other Rooms, new paintings by Myrtle Von Damitz III, through Jan.
28; Das Wunderkammer, works by Patrick Lichty, through February.
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.
BRUNNER GALLERY 215 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 893-0444 --
A Study in Figures, drawings on paper by Ed Whiteman, through Feb. 7.
CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130 -- New paintings
in oil by Masahiro Arai, through January. Opening reception and artist birthday
party 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 524-3936 -- New sculpture by Marianne Lerbs
and paintings by Carrie Christian, through Jan. 8. New sculpture by Allen Winn,
through March 4.
GALERIE ROYALE 3646 Magazine St., 894-1588 -- Mixed-media works
by Michael Klung, through Jan. 24.
A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY 241 Chartres St., 568-1313 -- Ophelia's
Garden, new panoramic series by Josephine Sacabo, through January.
IAN GALLERY 2917 Magazine St., Ste. 102, 894-8385 -- Coastal
Living, new photographs by Michael Kahn, through Jan. 30.
JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY 841 Carondelet St., 522-5471 -- Disappearing
Acts, new paintings by Kathleen Ariatti Banton, through Feb. 20.
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 January.
LEMIEUX GALLERIES 200 Metairie Road, 837-4044 -- Allegories of
Virtue and Vice, drawings by Mary Lee Eggart; Children's Hour, paintings
by Alan Gerson, through Jan. 24.
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.
MARGUERITE OESTREICHER FINE ARTS 720 Julia St., 581-9253 -- Obsessive
Masters, group show of works on paper by Tom Huck, Stephanie Borns, and Orren
Kickliter, through Feb. 27.
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.
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.
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. 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.
New orleans GLASSWORKS and PRINTMAKING STUDIO 727 Magazine St., 529-7277
-- Stained-glass installations by Michael Deary, outdoor aquatic sculpture by
Stephen Williams, and works in silver by Gerald Haessig, through January.
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.
SPACE GALLERY 4528 Magazine St., 897-9119 -- XY: Images
of Men, group show by local artists, through January.
STELLA JONES GALLERY Bank One Center, 201 St. Charles Ave., 568-9050
-- Black and White, works on paper by Reginald Gammon and Malaika Favorite,
through Feb. 12.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FINE ARTs GALLERY 2000 Lakeshore Drive, 280-6493
-- UNO Fine Arts Senior Project Exhibition, through Jan. 9.
VINTAGE 429 429 Royal St., 529-2288 -- Presidential Collection,
official White House portraits, carte de viste potrait cards, and signed photos
and documents of 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. 15.
spare spaces
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK Visitors' Center, 916 N. Peters
St., 589-4841 -- New Orleans jazz photographs by L.J. Goldstein, through January.
TURNCOATS 1926 magazine St., 299-9004 -- Rio-1, photographs
by Blake Haney, through Jan. 30.
museums
CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER 900 Camp St., 528-3805 -- Birdspace:
A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, multi-media group show devoted to bird imagery,
through March 21; Bird Nest, bird-themed art created by children, through
March 21.
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.
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.
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.
NATIONAL D-DAY MUSEUM 945 Magazine St., 527-6012 -- Upon Other Fields:
College Football in World War II, with photographs and artifacts from the
era. Co-sponsored by the College Football Hall of Fame, through January.
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
2003; The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt, rare ancient
art from the Egyptian national collection, through Feb. 25.
OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART 925 Camp St., 539-9600 -- The Story of
the South: Art and Culture 1890-2003, through May; Contemporary Southern
Masters: From the John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation, featuring works
by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Robert Stackhouse and others, through February;
Works from the Penland School from the Isaac and Sonja Lusky Collection,
through February; Southern Masters: Vincencia Blount, through February;
The New Orleans Corridor, including works by Lin Emery, George Dureau,
John Scott, Gina Phillips, Nicole Charbonnet, Martin Payton, Arthur Silverman
and Pat Trivigno, through February; The Guide Years, color photography
by William Eggleston, through February. (Reviewed in this issue.)
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.
books
Saturday 10
PETER LION. The National D-Day Museum, 945 Magazine St., 527-6012. Author
and ESPN director discusses and signs his new book, The American St. Nick,
based on the true story of an infantry division in World War II. Free admission.
1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Sunday 11
READING OUR DRAMATIC WRITES. Cowpokes Bar, 2240 St. Claude Ave., 947-0505.
Staged readings of submissions to DRAMA! Theater company. Presented by Keith
Istre. Free admission. 6 p.m.
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