Blackbird in 140 Characters
Blackbird is soul-crushingly beautiful. Elm Theatre is an amazing new talent. Do not miss this.
What: Anthony Rapp’s play about a Gulf War vet who must decide whether to send his companion home as her health begins to fade and both battle with addiction. Laura Hope directs Garrett Prejean and Becca Chapman in this raw and heartbreaking production.
Where: The Elm Theatre, 220 Julia St.
When: Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., through Aug. 14.
Lagniappin’ with Liz – Streetcar Edition
The Streetcar Project: A Dramatic Practicum
presented by InSideOut Productions in collaboration with Southern Rep and Tulane Shakespeare Festival
Tulane Lab Theatre
July 15 - July 17 @ 8:30 pm
July 17 @ 2:30 pm
FREE
Audience Talkback to follow show
Introducing Lagniappin’ with Liz!
Theatre Below Sea Level is proud to announce 'Lagniappin' with Liz' featuring Liz Skinner Gore. Liz will interview theatre companies about their upcoming shows and post her videos here. Watch her introduction video below!
Review: Forum
A review by Bradley J Troll
Ricky Graham in "Forum"
With Stephen Sondheim's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," Tulane's Summer Lyric Theatre makes a big promise: something for everyone and comedy tonight. And though many of the characters' deceits create chaotic and colorful confusion, the promise to the audience is not only kept, it is exceeded.
Review: Zombie Town
The cast of Zombie Town
A review by Bradley J Troll
With all the vampire brouhaha lately, isn't it about time someone took a serious look at the real undead dilemma? In the first production presented by the new collaboration of Southern Rep @ Le Chat Noir, Tim Bauer's "Zombie Town: A Documentary Play" reminds audiences that "zombie attacks are all fun and games ... till it happens to you."
Zombie Town in 140 Characters
"Zombie Town: Drink PBR. Watch people get decapitated. I flashed back to 'Nam in the middle but I guess it was pretty great."
July 1 - 18, 2010
Zombie Town By Tim Bauer Directed by Mark Routhier. Starring: Natalie Boyd, Kerry Cahill, Chris Kaminstein, Gamal Abdel Chasten and Zach Rogers. Production Design by Sarah Zoghbi and Stage Management by Andrea Watson. At Le Chat Noir July 1-18, 2010. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 6 pm Sundays. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll drink 3 PBRs for $5. Get your tickets today.
New to TBSL: Plays Reviewed in 140 Characters
Jared has a fun new feature on Theatre Below Sea Level. He will get drunk or go do some mushrooms and then tweet a review about the show and/or the things he hallucinated! Get ready for his first tweet coming later on today.
Yay narcotics!
Review: Our Town
A review by Bradley J. Troll
Greta Zehner and Michael Alexander in Our Town
Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” has long been held in the canon of classic American drama for its universal themes and its snapshot of a gone by. Anthony Bean Community Theater’s re-imagining of the drama, however, undermines that universality, introducing a instead a place that never existed.
Review: Mame
Elizabeth Argus in Mame
A Review by Bradley Troll
"Mame, " the beloved 1966 musical adaptation by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, "lives, lives, lives!" once again as the kick-off to the Tulane Summer Lyric Theater's 43rd season.Based on the novel, play and later movie "Auntie Mame, " the story focuses on the recently orphaned Patrick Dennis as he leaves Iowa to live with his aunt in the wild, booze-filled world of 1920s New York City. Instantly bonding with his "best girl, " his aunt, Patrick learns to be a man.
Review: The Piano Teacher
Michael Aaron Santos, Veronica Russell, and Peggy Walton-Walker. Photo by John Barrois
A review by Bradley Troll
It's sometimes jarring to be suddenly reminded of what theatre can do. A few suspicious piano cords stalked by a sinister violin unnerve you as a single actor speaks. And suddenly suspense. Just words--a little music, a little light, sure... but words. Stories. Lessons. Music. But the music is in the language of Julia Cho's The Piano Teacher, and this melody is one of foreboding, infused with startling minor cords and an ever-present, though still hidden, sense of horror.