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
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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.
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.
Press Release: Southern Rep presents The Piano Teacher
Southern Rep presents The Piano Teacher
Southern Rep finishes its 23rd season with the regional premiere of the Off-Broadway hit The Piano Teacher.
The play begins as the story of a sweet, lonely, cookie-loving piano teacher but becomes a chilling mystery that keeps you guessing until the very end. Mrs. K lives alone, in a world of her own creation, but when she has the impulse to call her former piano students, two of them respond in a way she does not expect. It is a subtle and complex play that takes us down dark corridors with a woman who just wants to imagine a life that has always been simple and happy.
Review: Grey Gardens
A review by Bradley Troll
Leslie Castay and Janet Shea. Photo by John Barrois
"That's Grey Gardens for you," says George Gould Strong, Edith Beale's accompanist and sycophant, "Those on the outside clamoring to get in-those on the inside dying to get out." The world of this East Hampton estate centers around nothing more than those who come, those who go, and those who remain. But nearly forty years after the the world was shocked to discover the fate of Grey Gardens and its inhabitants, we continue to clamor for a peak inside one of America's most fascinating homes and families.
Press Release: Southern Rep and Le Petit present Grey Gardens
Southern Rep and Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré present the regional premiere of Grey Gardens: The Musical, directed by Southern Rep Artistic Director Aimée Hayes. This Tony Award-winning musical is being presented at Le Petit Theatre in the French Quarter starting May 6th and running through May 23rd.
The musical is based on the 1920’s documentary of Jackie O’s strange relations Big Edie and Little Edie Beale. This infamous mother daughter duo are a true “riches-to-rags” story, two giddily eccentric women who started as American aristocrats and ended up secluded in their decaying genteel mansion Grey Gardens.
Review: I Am My Own Wife
A review by Bradley Troll
A light touch of her pearls, a soft swish of the matronly black apron over the black lace of a modest skirt. She turns a squeaky crank and delicately places the needle to the record as the soft static of an Edison phonograph prepares to tell its symphonic story. Behind her--antiques. Clocks, record players, sideboards... looming just behind the lace scrim screens. And on a table, small representations of these things, lingering memories of the grandeur of her famous museum in Bernlin-Mahlsdorf.
Press Release: Southern Rep presents I Am My Own Wife
Southern Rep announces its second production of the season, I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright, co-produced by All Kinds
of Theatre.
Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner for Best Play, I Am My Own Wife is the hauntingly complex true tale of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite who successfully outwitted not only the Nazis and Communists, but could also spot a priceless antique at 100 yards. Returning after his award-winning direction of Doubt two seasons ago, Carl Walker stages this smart and involving play. The much-in-demand Bob Edes, Jr. takes on the tour-de-force role of Charlotte after hitting home runs in SRT's productions of Sick, The Clean House, and The Breach.
Review: Opus
A review by Bradley Troll
"At it's best, it's like making love... at it's worst, it's like swallowing Drano." This analogy is used to describe a quartet making music. However, Southern Rep's performance of Opus by Michael Hollinger takes this sentiment beyond the lines of a staff and onto the boards of a stage. A true act of creation, Opus is love, music, and theatre in harrowing harmony.