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To see Brian Sands' preview of the upcoming fall theater season, click on the link below--
04/09/2025

To see Brian Sands' preview of the upcoming fall theater season, click on the link below--

Curtain Up Now that the curtain has come down on the performance art event known as Southern Decadence, it’s time to return indoors, most of the time, for more traditional (most of the time) theatrical events. In Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B, playwright Kate Hamill transforms Sir Arthur C**a...

To see the winner of the Critics’ Choice Gay Appreciation Award, and Brian Sands' write-up of Summer Lyric Theatre’s "Ca...
26/08/2025

To see the winner of the Critics’ Choice Gay Appreciation Award, and Brian Sands' write-up of Summer Lyric Theatre’s "Carousel" and “Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World” at The Art Institute of Chicago, click on the link below.

2025 Critics’ Choice Gay Appreciation Award winner On behalf of Tony Leggio and myself, I am delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Critics’ Choice Gay Appreciation Award (GAA) is Summer Lyric Theatre’s production of Anything Goes, Cole Porter’s bubbly 1934 musical that Direc...

To see Brian Sands' write-up of Fat Squirrel’s "The Crucible", and The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company’s "Cat on a Ho...
11/08/2025

To see Brian Sands' write-up of Fat Squirrel’s "The Crucible", and The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company’s "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", click on the link below

The Crucible at Big Couch through August 14 In the past 23 years, there’s been two Broadway revivals of Arthur Miller’s modern classic The Crucible yet, to the best of my knowledge, no productions by local companies, and possibly even longer than that (university and high school productions notw...

To see Brian Sands' write-up of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane's "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", and "Six F...
27/07/2025

To see Brian Sands' write-up of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane's "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", and "Six Frenchmen" at JAMNOLA, click on the link below.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Tulane’s Lupin Theater through July 27 A mere two years after The NOLA Project Gave us a most magical Dream in City Park, Advertisement To the Tulane Shakespeare Festival’s current Dream, I must object Not just because its stage, when Fairies dwell upon it, is ofte...

To see the nominees for the 2025 Critics’ Choice Gay Appreciation Award, plus previews of a variety of shows coming up t...
09/07/2025

To see the nominees for the 2025 Critics’ Choice Gay Appreciation Award, plus previews of a variety of shows coming up this month and in August, click on the link below

Critics’ Choice Gay Appreciation Award On behalf of Tony Leggio and myself, I am pleased to announce the nominees for the Critics’ Choice Award that will be presented as part of the 35th Gay Appreciation Awards (GAA). They are: Alice by Heart presented by Loyola University, Department of Theatre...

To see Brian Sands' write-up of Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane's "A Chorus Line", as well as a number of museum exhibit ...
04/07/2025

To see Brian Sands' write-up of Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane's "A Chorus Line", as well as a number of museum exhibit recommendations in New York, click on the link below

Critic’s Notebook Summer Lyric Theatre (SLT) presented a near perfect production of A Chorus Line at Tulane’s Dixon Hall recently (June 19-22); it probably would’ve been perfect had not some of the mylar on the panels standing in for rehearsal hall mirrors gotten distractingly scrunched up (at...

To see Brian Sands' reviews of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane's "The Imaginary Invalid" and Le Petit's "...
20/06/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane's "The Imaginary Invalid" and Le Petit's "Ain’t Misbehavin’", as well as his tribute to the late, great Harold X. Evans, click on the link below

The Imaginary Invalid at Tulane’s Lupin Theater through June 22 Want to go see a doctor or two especially when they’re likely to be a quack? Of course not! Unless, that is, they’re on stage at Tulane’s Lupin Theater for the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival’s (NOSF) production of The Imagin...

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The NOLA Project's "Clown Bar 2" and Broadway's "BOOP! The Musical ", "Stephen Sondheim’s...
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...

To see Brian Sands' reviews of Crescent City Stage's "Tiny Beautiful Things" at Loyola’s Marquette Theater, "The Wiz" at...
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...

To see Brian Sands' reviews of "Doubt" at Le Petit and "All The Beauty In The World" and "The Threepenny Opera" in New Y...
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...

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company's "Orpheus Descending" and the WWII Museum’s Stage...
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...

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The NOLA Project's "Every Brilliant Thing" and JPA's "Billy Elliot: The Musical" along wi...
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...

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