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11/06/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The NOLA Project's "Clown Bar 2" and Broadway's "BOOP! The Musical ", "Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends", and "Floyd Collins", click on the link below

Clown Bar 2 at The AllWays Lounge through June 6 If you’re looking for a romantic clown comedy murder mystery musical–and who isn’t these days?!–head to The Twilight Room at The AllWays Lounge for The NOLA Project’s production of Adam Szymkowicz’s Clown Bar 2. It’s a follow-up to the p...

18/05/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of Crescent City Stage's "Tiny Beautiful Things" at Loyola’s Marquette Theater, "The Wiz" at the Saenger Theatre, and Nari Tomassetti’s "Clowns are Bananas!" at 1315 Touro Street, click on the link below

Tiny Beautiful Things at Loyola’s Marquette Theater through May 25 Dear Sugar – As you may know, Crescent City Stage is presenting Nia (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) Vardalos’ adaptation of “your” book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (written, of course, under yo...

12/05/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of "Doubt" at Le Petit and "All The Beauty In The World" and "The Threepenny Opera" in New York as well as previews of upcoming shows, click on the link below

Doubt at Le Petit Theatre through May 18 After seeing its original off-Broadway production in January 2005, I wrote, “John Patrick Shanley provided gripping theater with his best play to date. In Doubt, a nun tries to determine whether a priest at her school has molested a young boy. If this Manha...

25/04/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company's "Orpheus Descending" and the WWII Museum’s Stage Door Canteen's "Rosie!", click on the link below

Orpheus Descending at Loyola’s Marquette Theatre Watching The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans’ recent production of Orpheus Descending at the Marquette Theatre on Loyola University’s campus, I couldn’t help wondering why it has never been turned into an opera. Its poetic mo...

05/04/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The NOLA Project's "Every Brilliant Thing" and JPA's "Billy Elliot: The Musical" along with a very brief review of The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans’ "Orpheus Descending" (full review in next column), please click on the link below

Every Brilliant Thing at Big Couch through April 6 Entering the theater at Big Couch recently, I encountered a Who’s Who of some of New Orleans’ finest theater artists, perhaps, in part, because it was a Monday night and most other venues were dark. I was pleased to see (in alphabetical order) L...

01/04/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of Jefferson Performing Arts’ "Joe & Marilyn" and Le Petit's "Jersey Boys", please click on the link below

Joe & Marilyn at Westwego Performing Arts Theatre Most people have some familiarity with Marilyn Monroe, the mid-twentieth century movie star and s*x symbol whose fame continues to burn brightly as movies, books, songs, etc. about her still tumble forth regularly. Even non-hard core fans may be awar...

18/03/2025

To see previews of "Joe & Marilyn" and "Billy Elliot: The Musical" (JPA); "DUSK" (Marigny Opera Ballet); "The Elixir of Love" (New Orleans Opera); "Rosie!" (WWII Museum's Stage Door Canteen); "Every Brilliant Thing" (The NOLA Project); "Orpheus Descending" (Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans); Tennessee Williams Festival's The Last Bohemia ("Harold & St. Claude", "Seeking Asylum", "The Night Fiona Flawless Went Mad"); "Wonder Wander - City Park" (No Dream Deferred); "Funny Girl" and "Hamilton" (Saenger); "All's Well in Roswell (Isn't It?)" (Slidell Little Theatre); "The Play That Goes Wrong" (30 by Ninety Theatre); "They Promised Her The Moon" (Playmakers); and "Jersey Boys" (Le Petit), please click on the link below. Please note that the column had originally gone online on Friday, March 7.

Curtain Up Now that Mardi Gras is just a happy memory, it’s time for theater to move back indoors again. Through the beginning of Jazzfest, lots of shows will be debuting on local stages from Metairie to the Northshore to the West Bank. Hope you’ll be able to check out some–or all–of the fol...

24/02/2025

To see Brian Sands' write-up of "Brechtfest VI", please click on the link below

Brechtfest VI at the AllWays Lounge Sure New Orleans has potholes and too many corrupt politicians and a crumbling education system. But it also has phenomenal restaurants, vibrant art galleries & museums, and Mardi Gras. Add to that latter list, Brechtfest whose sixth iteration recently appeared in...

17/02/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of Intramural Theater’s "Timbuktu, USA" and JPA's "True West", please click on the link below

Timbuktu, USA at The New Marigny Theatre My last column included a brief write-up of Intramural Theater’s recent production of Timbuktu, USA, but it merits a few more words as such inspired madness doesn’t grace our stages too often. Ken Prestininzi’s absurdist comedy tells the wild story of K...

03/02/2025

To see Brian Sands' mini-review of Intramural Theater’s "Timbuktu, USA" at The New Marigny Theatre (full review in next column) and reviews of New York's "DRAG: The Musical", "Cult of Love", "English", and "Eureka Day", please click on the link below

Timbuktu, USA at The New Marigny Theatre through February 3 A full review will follow in my next column, but if you want to see a show about some wild and wacky goings-on in Washington, D.C.–though not as wild and wacky as what’s currently going on there–head to The New Marigny Theatre for Int...

14/01/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of "Good Night, Oscar" at Le Petit and The Fire Weeds’ "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" as well as previews of Intramural Theater's "Timbuktu, USA", JPA's "True West" and "Murder on the Nile", "Fever Season" at Dillard University, "The Piano Lesson" and "All’s Well in Roswell (Isn’t It?)" at Slidell Little Theatre, Andrea J. Fulton's "One Drop" at Mt. Zion Association Auditorium, 30 by Ninety Theatre's "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", "The Sound of Music" done by The Company–A St. Bernard Community Theatre, and "& Juliet" and "Mamma Mia!" at the Saenger Theatre, please click on the link below

Good Night, Oscar at Le Petit through January 26 Le Petit is currently presenting Doug Wright’s play Good Night, Oscar. Oscar who? Oscar Levant. Oscar Levant who? I suspect those under 30 or 40, or even 50, 60 or 70 might have difficulty answering that question. Even the show’s director, A.J. Al...

06/01/2025

To see Brian Sands' "Year in Review" column, click on the link below

The Year in Review I’ve been postponing writing this column and now, it seems, I’ve postponed it all the way into 2025. I’m actually quite good at procrastinating and, with all the holiday festivities that have been going on recently, it’s been quite easy to dilly-dally when there are cards ...

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