Plus, a take a look at competitive dance gets the spotlight in a production at Tulane University.
‘Somebody should be lyin’!’
Any reveal that begins with the protagonist on phase in a slip has terrific prospective, and anybody who has actually ever seen “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” understands Tennessee Williams absolutely satisfied the capacity in the Pulitzer Prize-winning program about life, death and mendacity.
Perhaps among the author’s most widely known (and preferred) works, “Cat” concerns the phase of Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré March 9-26 in the play house at 616 St. Peter St.
Set in a Mississippi plantation home, the story takes a look at the characters who comprise the unpredictable and frequently hostile Pollitt family, seen on the precipice of modification that might well destroy the apparently rare hold they have on the clan. At spotlight sits Maggie Pollitt, charming and sensuous partner of the younger bro Brick, who appears to commit all his attention to the bottom of an alcohol bottle and his cloudy past.
Then there’s Big Daddy, the brutish leader of the family who appears to be lacking time to rescue his preferred boy. There’s likewise Gooper, the older and stalwart bro with a shrewish partner and brood of kids. Big Mama frantically attempts to keep the family together to commemorate Big Daddy’s birthday, however as your house staff reports, “storms a’comin’.”
The Le Petit production will consist of the author’s initial 3rd act, reworded for the film variation and other phase adjustments.
Salvatore Mannino directs the production that includes Mona Nasrawi and Jonathan Mares, with Diana E.H. Shortes, Nick Strauss, Elizabeth Argus, Silas Cooper, John Wettermark and Yvette Bourgeois.
The reveal opens at 7:30 p.m. March 10, with a sneak peek March 9. The reveal perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays to Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays and March 25 through March 26. A trainee matinee will be 10 a.m. March 16. Tickets start at $35, $15 for trainee tickets. lepetittheatre.com
Journey into ‘Night’
People have journeys of lots of kinds, and the sexual and spiritual journeys of the lead in “Night of the Iguana” are the focus of the production by the Tennessee Williams Theatre Company opening March 10 at Loyola’s Lower Depths Theatre.
The defrocked Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, now a tourist guide, has actually concerned see his friend, a hotelier at a Mexican mountaintop inn, just to discover he has actually passed away. Between the widow, the visiting university student and staff, and the other characters in the gritty, sensuous production, the program reveals much.
The production is the season opener for the business, part of their “Deadly” series that will consist of Williams’ “Sweet Bird of Youth” and “Spring Storm.”
The production group guarantees “a fresh and innovative take that stays real to the play’s essence.” The initial production was embeded in the 1940s.
Taking functions in the program are Jake Wynne-Wilson, Lauren Wells, James Howard Wright, Lizzy Bruce, Adriel Aviles, Lauren Van Mullem, Andrea Dube, Kyle Daigrepont, Matthew Raetz, Benjamin Dougherty, P.J. Ruffins and Eduardo Turcios.
The reveal opens at 7:30 p.m. March 10 and runs Thursdays to Saturdays, plus 2 p.m. Sundays through March 26 at the theater in the Communications/Media Complex at Loyola, 6363 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans. Tickets start at $10. twtheatrenola.com.
Go into your ‘Dance’
The rough and topple world of competitive dance groups, where dreams can rapidly rely on headaches, gets the funny treatment in a brand-new program at Tulane University’s Department of Theatre and Dance production of “Dance Nation” opening Tuesday.
The Pulitzer Prize finalist script by Clare Barron peels back the makeup and hair bow façade of preteen dancers as they find out about themselves, their power and their capacity.
“At turns funny and heartbreaking, ‘Dance Nation’ commemorates the intense, competitive nature of teenage ladies rather of depicting them as victims,” keeps in mind director Jenny Mercein. “The play talks to the reality that all of us are exceptionally marked by what occurs to us in our early teenage years. For much better or for even worse, all of us bring the shadow of our 13-year-old selves with us every day.”
Tulane trainees in the cast consist of Victoria Guest, Nya Phillips, Eric Weiss, Sydney Schneider, Arushi Thakur, Douglas Corcoran and Madi Bolin. Also included are teachers Kelly Bond and Jeffery Gunshol.
Performances will be at Lupin Theatre, 150 Dixon Hall Annex, on the Uptown school. The reveal runs 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to March 11, and 2 p.m. March 11-12. Tickets start at $10 and appointments are motivated. purplepass.com/TULANETD.
‘Cash’ homage
“The Man in Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash” puts the famous music icon at spotlight for this show efficiency piece, including Shawn Barker, Sunday at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts.
The production, with Barker in character for the run of the program, analyzes the numerous phases of the troubadour’s life, with familiar tunes in the program consisting of “Folsom Prison Blues, “A Boy Named Sue” and “I Walk the Line.”
Showtime is 7:30 p.m. at the theater at 1419 Basin St. in Louis Armstrong Park. Tickets start at $29.50. mahaliajacksontehater.com.
In production
“FILTHY ROTTEN RASCALS”: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays; Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive. Con artists on the French Riviera get fooled with tunes and dance with loads of slapstick funny, subterfuge and double crossing. Tickets start at $22. slidelllittletheatre.org.
“DREAMGIRLS”: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through March 18; Cutting Edge Theater, 767 Robert Blvd., Slidell. Based loosely on the legend of The Supremes, the “Dreams” face accomplishments, disasters and treachery on their increase to the top, with tunes such as “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” “One Night Only” and “Listen.” Tickets start at $32. cuttingedgetheater.com.
“FIDDLER ON THE ROOFING”: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday; Saenger Theatre, 1111 Cana St., New Orleans. The story of milkman, his partner and their 5 children set versus tough times for poor individuals in Imperial Russia. Tevye battles with his older children’ options for other halves, as the political and social landscape around him modifications, while he frantically attempts to keep his faith and culture while on a roller rollercoaster of feelings. Tickets start at $30. broadwayinneworleans.com.
“WHITE”: 7:30 p.m. most Wednesdays and Thursdays in March, plus March 5, 10, 19 and 31, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park. Art comes to life at Lapis Center for the Arts when the NOLA Project opens a funny referred to as “modern Frankenstein story embeded in the increasingly competitive art world.” Tickets start at $20. nolaproject.com
