theater

Bossier Parish High School Play Confronts Bullying, Teen Suicide

Kate Archer Kent — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:29:00 +0000

Bossier’s Talented Arts Program will present a one-act play this week about the stresses that teenagers face in high school. The play “The Way It Is” explores issues like bullying and teenage suicide.

Benton High School junior Morgann Hutchinson plays a character who copes with helicopter parents.

Stories from Da Dirt

Diane Mack — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:32:17 +0000

We go Inside the Arts for conversation with Dr. Nancy Dawson, artistic director of the Tennessee based Music is Spirit theater group.

A Broadway Mystery Worthy Of 'Rebecca'

PATRICK HEALY — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:14:00 +0000

There's a new mystery on Broadway — one about the musical Rebecca, based on the Daphne du Maurier novel.

You can't see it yet on the New York stage. In fact, it hasn't even started rehearsals. That's because the production is short $4.5 million after one of its investors died before he could hand over the money.

But as Patrick Healy reports in The New York Times, some are now wondering if this investor ever existed.

New stage show honors Louis Prima at WWII Museum

The Associated Press — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:20:44 +0000

A new show featuring the music and dance moves of New Orleans singer and trumpeter Louis Prima opens next month at the National World War II Museum.

Shorts Inspire Music In 'Sounding Beckett' Trilogy

Jeff Lunden — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:33:00 +0000

It all began last year, when the Library of Congress presented Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu alongside a piece of music by composer Dina Koston, which responded to the text. A New York group, the Cygnus Ensemble, played the music, while Washington, D.C., director Joy Zinoman staged the play, for one night only.

"And when it was over, Bill Anderson, the head of the Cygnus Ensemble, said to me, 'Might you be interested in taking this to New York?' " Zinoman recalls. "And I said, 'An 11-minute play in New York?

In The Theater Of Politics, Staging Is Everything

Bob Mondello — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:42:00 +0000

During the next two weeks, the major political parties will assemble their faithful in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C., to officially nominate their presidential tickets. These conventions were once places of high political drama. But over the decades, as the primary system has determined the candidates well in advance, conventions have become political theater. With that in mind, there's much to be said on staging in politics — not substance, but style.

In the theater, stars are stars at least partly because of the way they're presented — in brighter lighting, on higher platforms.

Satchmo SummerFest, Whitney White Linen Night, Hearing Sappho in New Orleans and Fiddler on the Roof

Diane Mack — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:51:19 +0000

This week on Inside the Arts you'll hear about a three-day birthday bash honoring the life, legacy and music of Louis Armstrong... we'll sashay down Julia Street for Whitney White Linen Night celebrations, throw a little poetry into the mix, and tackle tradition with a popular Broadway musical opening Uptown.

Cole Porter's 'Anything Goes' Opens Tonight!

Diane Mack — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:32:13 +0000

The S.S. American ocean liner sets out for a trip across the pond, as Tulane's Summer Lyric Theater continues its 45th season with Cole Porter's Tony Award winning musical, Anything Goes. We go Inside the Arts for a sneak peek.

Sunset Boulevard Opens Tonight!

Diane Mack — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:22:55 +0000

Summer Lyric Theater at Tulane University celebrates with Hollywood glamor, as it opens its 45th season with the premier of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award-winning musical Sunset Boulevard.

We go Inside the Arts for a sneak peek.

Southern Rep Says Goodbye to Theater Home of 20 Years

Diane Mack — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:45:40 +0000

Southern Rep Theater is looking for a new venue after twenty years in residence on the third floor of Canal Place.

WWNO's Diane Mack talks with Southern Rep's artistic director Aimee Hayes.