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Clybourne Park at The Shadowbox Theatre

Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Fri.-Sun. May 17-June 23 | Bruce Norris' Tony Award-winning play takes up where A Raisin in the Sun ends.…

Review: New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival

Dalt Wonk — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Dalt Wonk on the festival's second week of shows by Dalt Wonk Harry Mayronne Jr. presented his High-Strung Puppet Cabaret. The multitalented Mayronne is a musician, composer and puppeteer, and he makes his puppets.…

Review: The Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger

Will Coviello — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Will Coviello on Steven Dawson's one-act play about phone sex and pretend identities by Will Coviello By the time Butt Boy (Chris Marroy) repeatedly screams "Hit the spot," it's clear that Steven Dawson's one-act play The Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger is every bit as racy as the title suggests. Butt Boy and Tigger (Garrett Prejean) are in the final ecstatic moments of a sexual fantasy shared online and acted out in unison between the two small desks on stage at The Elm Theater.…

Amy Schumer at the House of Blues

Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

May 19 | Fresh from the April 30 debut of her Comedy Central series Inside Amy Schumer, the New York comedian and actress does standup at the House of Blues. She revels in self-deprecating political incorrectness, offbeat confessions and sexual candor, which may explain appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Girls and The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen.…

Review: Much Ado About Nothing

Will Coviello — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Will Coviello on the NOLA Project's latest Shakespeare in the Park romp by Will Coviello Thick Hollywood-style Southern accents work wonders to mask the sharp tongued battle of wits between Beatrice (Kathlyn Tarwater) and Benedick (A.J. Allegra) in the NOLA Project's production of Much Ado About Nothing. Their repartee almost sounds loving, belying the romantic comedy's show-stealing subplot.…

Next to Normal at Southern Rep.

Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Wed.- Sun. May 15-June 9 | Leslie Castay stars as a suburban mother suffering from bipolar disorder and struggling to cope with her family.…

Driving Miss Daisy at Westwego Performing Arts Theatre and North Star Theater

Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Thu.-Sun. May 9-June 2 | Janet Shea and Donald Lewis star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a cantankerous old Southern woman, who is white, and a man, who is black, hired to assist her.…

Gypsy at Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Fri.-Sun. May 10-26 | In the classic musical, Rose is an overbearing stage mom who drags daughters Baby June and Louise into show business as vaudeville is dying.…

Review: New Orleans Puppet Festival

Will Coviello — Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Will Coviello says the puppet fest has grown impressively, but with mixed results by Will Coviello In the opening weekend of shows at the New Orleans Puppet Festival, Skookum Heehee Tumtum Productions made the most of the cavernous space at the Marigny Opera House. The set featured twin scaffolds more than 20 feet tall, and at one point, a character in the story was carried away by an eaglelike suitor to a nest in a flight spanning nearly the full length of the deconsecrated church.…

Wicked at Mahalia Jackson Theater

Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 -0500

May 8- June 2 | The hit musical returns audiences to the world of Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but the parallel story is based on Gregory Maguire's novel about the lives of Oz's witches. Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, are friends and rivals through the years, and Dorothy and her friends play their parts in the battle.…

The Adventures of Buttboy and Tigger at The Elm Theatre

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Fri.-Sat. May 3-June 8 | In Steven Dawson's drama, two men chat online and enjoy exchanging ever more vivid and outrageous sexual fantasies.…

Review: Wolfboy

Dalt Wonk — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Dalt Wonk on Mid-City Theatre's drama about two men in an insane asylum by Dalt Wonk The Village Voice once complimented Canadian playwright Brad Fraser for "a grunge sensuality that could seduce a young audience to live theater." The audience for Fraser's Wolfboy on the night I saw it at the Mid-City Theatre was not particularly young, but they seemed to enjoy the drama — if enjoy can be applied to such a dark experience.…

Preview: New Orleans Puppet Festival

Will Coviello — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Will Coviello on the second annual puppet extravaganza by Will Coviello The inaugural New Orleans Puppet Festival featured mostly large-scale puppets. This year's festival has grown to two weekends and two venues, includes an array of puppet sizes and styles (marionettes, rod and shadow puppets and more) and offers both family-friendly and adults-only shows.…

New Orleans Puppet Festival

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

April 25- May 5 | The festival includes giant puppets, marionettes and rod and shadow puppets in shows by local and visiting troupes including Harry Mayronne, Mudlark Puppeteers, Puppetkabob, Toybox Theatre and Cripps Puppets. There are family-friendly shows at the Marigny Opera House and adults-only late-night shows at the Mudlark Public Theatre.…

Review: Lockdown

Dalt Wonk — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Dalt Wonk on Junebug Productions' play about New Orleans charter schools by Dalt Wonk Exposing the deficiencies of charter schools was the premise of Lockdown, recently presented at Ashe Cultural Arts Center by Junebug Productions. It should be noted that exposing injustice was always a priority for Free Southern Theater, founded in 1965, a precursor to Junebug.…

8 at the Civic Theatre

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Sun. April 21 | Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar) attends a staged reading of his play about California's Proposition 8, the law banning same-sex marriage, which is before the Supreme Court.…

Million Dollar Quartet at Mahalia Jackson Theater

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

April 16-21 | The Tony-winning musical recreates a 1956 session at Memphis' Sun Records in which Sam Phillips got Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis together in the studio. The show features "Blue Suede Shoes," "Great Balls of Fire," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On," "Folsom Prison Blues," "Hound Dog," "Fever" and other hits.…

Review: The Rocky Horror Show

Dalt Wonk — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Dalt Wonk does the Time Warp again at Delgado Community College's production of the classic rock musical by Dalt Wonk Amid the flourishing genre of musicals that might be called pseudo-operas, like The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables, there is a smaller genre of offbeat, catchy rock musicals based on science fiction. Delgado Community College is presenting Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show, which premiered in London in 1975.…

Madame Butterfly at Mahalia Jackson Theater

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Fri. & Sun.…

Review: Battle of Angels

Dalt Wonk — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Dalt Wonk on Tennessee Williams' first professionally published play by Dalt Wonk Battle of Angels, recently staged at AllWays Lounge and Theatre, was Tennessee Williams' first professionally produced play. Although it's an early work, all of Williams' strengths are there: the Gothic South, the everyday language that somehow rises to poetry and conflicts that teeter on the edge of melodrama.…

Review: Mold

Dalt Wonk — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Dalt Wonk on the final installment in John Biguenet's trilogy at the Contemporary Arts Center by Dalt Wonk Hurricane Katrina was inevitably called "a catastrophe of biblical proportions." The multitalented New Orleans writer John Biguenet has presented the catastrophe in three plays, all of which premiered at Southern Rep. Mold, the final installment, is currently on the boards at the Contemporary Art Center, and it is local original theater at its best.…

Review: Noises Off

Dalt Wonk — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Dalt Wonk on Rivertown's recent production of Michael Frayn's classic backstage farce by Dalt Wonk Theater people call them "war stories" — the endless slips and goofs that plague live performance. An actor forgets to take off his glasses and enters as a medieval figure in fashionable modern eyewear.…

Jim Gaffigan at the Mahalia Jackson Theater

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Tue. March 19 | Comedian Jim Gaffigan is known for his high-pitched asides, homages to Hot Pockets and bland food and a self-deprecating style of humor in which he feigns offense at his own jokes.…

Freedom Ride at Marigny Opera House

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Fri.-Sat. March 22-23 | Xavier University professor Dan Shore created Freedom Ride, an opera about New Orleans and the civil rights movement.…

Martha Graham Dance Company at Mahalia Jackson Theater

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:00:00 -0500

Sat. March 23 | The program features several of Graham's iconic pieces, including Appalachian Spring.…