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To see Brian Sands' write-up of Poppet Theater's "Stanley and His Demon" and previews of Blithe Spirit, Fat Ham, A Midsu...
10/01/2026

To see Brian Sands' write-up of Poppet Theater's "Stanley and His Demon" and previews of Blithe Spirit, Fat Ham, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Somnotomy, Hadestown, Mark Twain Tonight!, Water for Elephants, Tango After Dark, Maid of Orleans, Susannah, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, & Brechtfest VII, click on the link below--

Stanley and His Demon at the New Marigny Theater thru January 12 In Stanley and His Demon, written and directed by Mariana Santiago for Poppet Theater (formerly Streetcar Collective for the Arts) at the New Marigny Theater through January 12, Stanley (Peat Wolf) is a vain and obnoxious huckster who....

To see Brian Sands' "Year in Review" column, click on the link below
07/01/2026

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

The Year in Review Instead of starting this column off all doomy and gloomy, as I did last year’s “Year in Review”, I figured I’d begin by accentuating the positive aspects of New Orleans’ theater scene for the year just passed. I saw virtually the same number of shows in 2025 as I did in ...

To see Brian Sands' reviews of "Back to the Future: The Musical" and JPA's "The Nutcracker" as well as Broadway's "The Q...
19/12/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of "Back to the Future: The Musical" and JPA's "The Nutcracker" as well as Broadway's "The Queen of Versailles" and "Liberation", click on the link below--

Back to the Future: The Musical at the Saenger Theatre through December 14 It had been a long day and I was in the mood for just some pure entertainment as I headed to the Saenger Theatre to see Back to the Future: The Musical. I wish I could time travel back and, instead, just […]

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The Company – A St. Bernard Community Theater's "Carrie the Musical", Aqua Mob's "Wendy, ...
01/12/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The Company – A St. Bernard Community Theater's "Carrie the Musical", Aqua Mob's "Wendy, Darling: An Aquatic Retelling of The Shining", and Trey Bien's "The Case of the Bitchin’ Queen Belles–A Golden Girls Drag Musical", click on the link below--

Carrie the Musical at the Azienda Theater I vividly remember seeing the original production of Carrie the Musical on Broadway. It had opened the night before. The reviews were not kind. It was clear this would be one of the season’s most notorious flops, possibly one for the ages. As Act II began ...

To see Brian Sands' review of "Kimberly Akimbo" at the Saenger Theatre plus previews of upcoming shows, click on the lin...
08/11/2025

To see Brian Sands' review of "Kimberly Akimbo" at the Saenger Theatre plus previews of upcoming shows, click on the link below--

Kimberly Akimbo at the Saenger Theatre Having seen Kimberly Akimbo in its original small, off-Broadway theater and then at the Booth Theater, one of Broadway’s smaller houses, during its Tony Award-winning run, I wondered how this quirky musical would manage in the vast confines of the Saenger The...

To see Brian Sands' reviews of New Orleans Ballet Theatre's "Dracula" and Varla Jean Merman's "The Drowsy Chappell Roan"...
04/11/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of New Orleans Ballet Theatre's "Dracula" and Varla Jean Merman's "The Drowsy Chappell Roan", click on the link below--

Dracula at The Orpheum Theater The last time I attended a New Orleans Ballet Theatre (NOBT) performance was in the spring of 2019. I noted then that it had been a while since I had seen one of their presentations and, watching its glorious production of Cinderella made me realize how much I missed t...

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The NOLA Project's "Frankenstein" at the Lafitte Greenway Station, "The Lehman Trilogy" a...
17/10/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The NOLA Project's "Frankenstein" at the Lafitte Greenway Station, "The Lehman Trilogy" at Le Petit, and Fat Squirrel's "Exhausted Paint: The Death of Van Gogh" at Big Couch, click on the link below--

Frankenstein at Lafitte Greenway Station through October 17 They say lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice, but that’s being proven incorrect at the Lafitte Greenway Station both literally-ish and figuratively. Literally-ish because The NOLA Project’s new production of Frankenstein emp...

To see Brian Sands' reviews of Fat Squirrel's "Exhausted Paint: The Death of Van Gogh", and "Kimberly Akimbo" at the Sae...
11/10/2025

To see Brian Sands' reviews of Fat Squirrel's "Exhausted Paint: The Death of Van Gogh", and "Kimberly Akimbo" at the Saenger as well as "Saturday Church", the Frick Collection, and Red Eye's Tres Leches in NYC, click on the link below--

Exhausted Paint: The Death of Van Gogh at Big Couch October 8-18 [Exhausted Paint: The Death of Van Gogh played at UNO in 2022. Fat Squirrel will be presenting the production directed by Carly Stroud and again featuring Drew Stroud at Big Couch October 8-18. The following is an excerpt from my March...

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...

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