AGNES OF GOD. Tulane University,
Lab Theatre, McWilliams Hall, 865-5106. Drama with court-appointed psychologist
determining whether a nun accused of strangling her newborn is fit for trial.
Janet Spencer directs P'Nina Mossman, Jean Ann Douglass and Katie Holland. Tickets
$5. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.
AMAZING PLACE, THIS NEW ORLEANS. True
Brew Theatre, 200 Julia St., 945-6789. Roberts Batson's solo performance
brings to life the history and characters that helped shape the story of New
Orleans, based on his Scandal Tours. Tickets $20. Performances 4:30 p.m. Thursday
and Saturday.
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 are invited to bring memorabilia. Tickets $10, $8 students and
seniors. 8 p.m. Monday. Open run.
CROWNS. Anthony Bean Community Theatre,
1333 S. Carrollton Ave., 862-PLAY (7529). Regina Taylor's musical about
a young African-American woman from Brooklyn staying with family in the South.
Anthony Bean directs Pat McGuire-Hill, Gail Glapion and Leo Jones. Tickets $18,
students-seniors $16. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. (Reviewed in this
issue.)
DO LORD REMEMBER ME. Dillard University,
Samuel Du Bois Cook Center, 816-4857. James de Jongh's collage of song,
dance and dialogue of former slaves as compiled in the 1930s with the Federal
Writers Project. Andrea Frye directs. Tickets $10 general, $8 students/seniors.
8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.
HALLELUJAH, PRAISE THE LORD. Lakeview
Presbyterian Church, 5914 Canal Blvd., 482-7892. The Family and Friends
Players present musical drama with depictions of African-American history revealed
through memories of an elderly couple. Free admission. 5 p.m. Sunday.
HOLLYWOOD HEAVEN. Le Chat Noir,
715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812. The Producers Circle looks at the lives
of Hollywood stars residing in the area of heaven reserved for the rich and
famous. Writer-director Ricky Graham stars with Roy Haylock. Tickets $21. 6
p.m. Saturday. Open run.
LET THE BROTHA TALK! Monkey Hill
Bar, 6100 Magazine St., 899-4800. Comedian RedBean delivers a one-man show
as "the inappropriate relationship and sex therapist." Admission $5. 8 p.m.
Wednesday, through Feb. 18.
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. Sundays. Open run.
NOT A DAY GOES BY. Saenger Theatre,
143 N. Rampart St., 524-2490. Musical based on E. Lynn Harris' novel; a
retired football player, bisexual and promiscuous, searches for stability in
a rising Broadway diva. Stars Jackee, Gary Owens and Trenyce. Tickets $24.50.
8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
THE OLDEST PROFESSION. Loyola University,
Lower Depths Theater, 865-3824. Paula Vogel's drama of four elderly prostitutes
remembering their early days in the Storyville District. Lane Savadove directs.
Tickets $12 general, $7 students/seniors. 8 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday.
VAUDEVILLE NIGHTS. 735 Club, 735
Bourbon St., 524-4702. Fifteen traditional vaudeville acts from the 1920s,
accompanied by The Victorian Echoes jazz band. Skye Jordan directs. Tickets
$11. Performance 8 p.m. Saturdays.
auditions
CARAVAN STAGE TALL SHIP THEATRE. UNO
Downtown Theatre, 619 Carondelet St. Theater company holding auditions
for actors, modern dancers, circus artists, singers and theater technicians
for a five-month tour of the Gulf states for May through October. Auditions
Wednesday. For appointments, call Adriana at (917) 208-6976.
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 exhibit, through Feb. 20.
ACME GALLERY 5700 Magazine St.,
891-0357 -- CarousElle, paintings by Marrus, through March 1.
AGORA 2240 Magazine St., 525-2240
-- Works on display by Shmuela Berg, Susan Brechtel, Elaine Gleason, John Kenny,
Charlotte Lewis, Nell Mabry, Tony Mose, Jerry Noto and Lynette Walker.
ARTEGG STUDIOS 1001 S. Broad St.,
822-4002 -- Passing Images, photographs by Fritzie Paine, by appointment,
through Feb. 23.
ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY 432 Julia St.,
522-1999 -- Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude, and As I See It, photographs
by Greg Gorman, through Feb. 28.
AXELLE FINE ARTS GALERIE ROYALE 709
Royal St., 299-1666 -- Recent works by Michel Delacroix, Jean-Daniel Bouvard
and Jacques Godin, plus new paintings by Albert Hadjiganev, through February.
BARRISTER'S GALLERY 1724 Oretha
Castle Haley Blvd., 525-2767 -- Das Wunderkammer, works by Patrick Lichty,
through Feb. 29; Immersed in Myth, new sculpture and drawings by Kristin
Meyers, through March 27.
BOCKMAN DESIGN 4513 Magazine St.,
891-8785 -- Carnival 2004, mixed-media works by Heather MacFarlane,
paintings by Frahn Koerner, and photographs by Shannon Brinkman, through March
5. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.
BRUNNER GALLERY 215 N. Columbia
St., Covington, (985) 893-0444 -- Abstracts by Ed Whiteman and work by other
gallery artists. Opens Saturday through March 6.
BRYANT GALLERIES 316 Royal St.,
525-5584 -- Paintings and animatronic boxes by John Preble, through
February. (Reviewed in this issue.)
CARROLL GALLERY Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb College/Tulane
University, 865-5361 -- N.O.P.D.: New Orleans Pattern and Decoration,
recent works by Nicole Charbonnet, Teresa A. Cole, Brandon Graving and K. Maxx
Sizeler, through Feb. 20.
COLLINS C. DIBOLL ART GALLERY Loyola
University, 6363 St. Charles Ave., Monroe Library, fourth floor, 861-5456 --
Christopher Cook: Against the Grain, graphites exhibit, through Feb. 19.
(Reviewed in this issue.)
CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER 900 Camp
St., 528-3805 -- Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, group
show of works in all mediums, through March 21.
D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 524-3936
-- New sculpture by Allen Wynn, through March 4.
GALERIE LAFAYETTE @ JEFFERSON STREET MARKET
538 Jefferson St., Lafayette -- I Want to Believe: Ralph Bourque,
In the Project Room: Back Stage With Stevie Nicks, through March 6. Opening
reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
GALLERY CLAIBORNE 2109 N. Claiborne
Ave., 949-5300 -- First Offerings, photographs by Gus Bennett, and
Eclectic Images, photographs by Eric Waters, through Feb. 28.
HANSON GALLERY 229 Royal St., 524-8211
-- Group show by gallery artists including Edward Povey and Michelle
Gagliano, through February.
JOHN STINSON FINE ARTS 900 S. Peters
St., 566-1944 -- Tony Green Does Mardi Gras, works by Tony Green,
plus photographs by Stephen Forster and Skip Bolen, Mardi Gras collection of
Arthur Hardy, and woodcarvings by Herbert Singleton, through February.
JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY 841 Carondelet
St., 522-5471 -- Disappearing Acts, works by Kathleen Ariatti Benton, through
Feb. 20.
KURT E. SCHON 510 St. Louis St.,
524-5462; 523 Royal St., 523-5902 -- European 18th and 19th century oil
paintings from French Salon and The Royal Academy artists, plus French Impressionists
since 1978, through February.
LEMIEUX GALLERIES 332 Julia St.,
522-5988 -- Artists in Detail, paintings by Charles Barbier, through
Feb. 28.
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.
MAGAZINE STREET GALLERY 5207 Magazine St., 897-5330
--Photographs from Nathaniel Lee Bareford's Opposing Positive and
Metempsychosis portfolios, through Feb. 29.
MARGUERITE OESTREICHER FINE ARTS
720 Julia St., 581-9253 -- Obsessive Masters, works on paper by Stephanie
Borns, Orren Kickliter and Tom Huck, through Feb. 28.
NEWCOMB ART GALLERY Woldenberg Art
Center, Newcomb College/Tulane University, 865-5361 -- True Grit: Avant
Garde American Women Artists Before Feminism, through Feb. 15.
NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS/RIVERFRONT
2800 Chartres St., 940-2787 -- Selected alumni works on loan from
the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Ogden Collection, on display in the
Trusty-Corey Atrium through March 12; Transgenic Miracles, sculpture
by Chicory Miles, through March 19.
NEW ORLEANS GLASSWORKS AND PRINTMAKING
STUDIO 727 Magazine St., 529-7277 -- Celestial Wonders, glass
sculpture by Stephen Williams, orbital sky prints by Frank van den Ham, and
musical mobiles by Skippy Strain, through February.
POET'S GALLERY 3113 Magazine St.,
899-4100 -- Valentine Mourning, dolls and photography by Christy
Kane and painted manipulations by Flynn De Marco, through March. Opening reception
6 p.m.-10 p.m. Saturday.
SLIDELL ART LEAGUE GALLERY 1827
Front St., Ste. 201, Slidell, (985) 847-9458 -- The Reflections Show,
group show by local artists, through Feb. 15.
SPACE GALLERY 4528 Magazine St.,
897-9119 -- Happy to Be Chives, group show by local artists
including Al White, Donald Miller and Cree Miller, through Feb. 28.
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.
SYLVIA SCHMIDT GALLERY 400A Julia
St., 522-2000 -- Strangers in Paradox, mixed-media paintings by Louis
St. Lewis with lightboxes by Sean Yseult, through February.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FINE ARTS GALLERY
2000 Lakeshore Drive, 280-6493 -- Scenic Themes, photographs by Christine
Catsifas and Kyle Riedel, through Feb. 27.
WAITING ROOM GALLERY 904 Pauline
St., 949-1805 -- Photography, paintings and mixed-media works by Lauren
Russell and Jason Ellis, through February.
WINDSOR FINE ART 313 Royal St.,
586-0202 -- Original works, limited-edition serigraphs and more by Royo,
through Feb. 18.
spare spaces
JEFFERSON PARISH LIBRARY EAST BANK REGIONAL
4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, 838-1100 -- Collage: Three
Hundred Years of French Peoples in Louisiana, traveling exhibit from the
Louisiana State Museum, through March 5.
LESBIAN & GAY COMMUNITY CENTER OF NEW ORLEANS
2114 Decatur St., 945-1103 -- Light Follows Darkness, works
by Shane Garner, through March 31.
call for artists
BAYOU LACOMBE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SPRING
ART EXHIBIT -- Inviting submissions for annual art show in April;
entry is open to artists 18 and older residing in St. Tammany Parish. Call 985-882-3352
or email springart@I-55.com for eligibility
information.
museums
BACK STREET CULTURAL MUSEUM 1116
St. Claude Ave., 522-4806 -- Exhibit featuring Mardi Gras Indian suits,
through May 31.
CABILDO Jackson Square, 568-6990
-- One Nation Under God: The Church, The State, and The Louisiana Purchase,
through February.
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 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.
MADAME JOHN'S LEGACY 632 Dumaine
St., 568-6968 -- Goin' Cross My Mind: Contemporary Self-Taught Artists
in Louisiana, works by Clementine Hunter, Sister Gertrude Morgan and others,
through February.
NEW ORLEANS AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM OF
ART, CULTURE AND HISTORY 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., 527-0989 -- Martin
Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Art Exhibit featuring works by Adewale Adenle,
Claire Foster, Charles Collins, and Cecelia Pedescleaux, through May 22.
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART 1 Collins
Diboll Circle, City Park, 488-2631 -- The Quest for Immortality: Treasures
of Ancient Egypt, rare ancient art from the Egyptian national collection,
through Feb. 25; Inner Cities, photographs by James VanDerZee (Harlem),
Alwyn Scott Turner (New Orleans), Robert Doisneau (Paris), and Manuel Alvarez
Bravo (Mexico City), through April 11; Consonance and Resonance: Late 19th-
and Early 20th-Century Japanese Painting in Edo-Period Styles, through June
15.
OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART 925
Camp St., 539-9600 -- The Story of the South: Art and Culture 1890-2003,
Chapter One, museum collection of Roger Ogden, on permanent exhibit;
Chapter Two, featuring works by William Eggleston, Robert Rauschenberg,
Jasper Johns, Robert Stackhouse, glass works from the Penland School and more,
through May.
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 photographs by Sam Abell, through
May; Nations Within: The Four Sovereign Tribes of Louisiana, photographic
exhibit showcasing the Chitimacha, Coushatta, Tunica Biloxi and Jena Band of
Choctaw tribes, through March 14.
books
Saturday 14
ARTHUR HARDY. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans
Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135. Local Carnival expert signs Mardi
Gras Guide and Mardi Gras in New Orleans: An Illustrated History.
2 p.m.
