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14/12/2024

To see Brian Sands' reviews of Fat Squirrel's "The Trojan Women" and Marigny Opera Ballet’s "HERE", please click on the link below

The Trojan Women at The New Marigny Theatre through December 13 Euripides’ The Trojan Women ranks as one of the most despairing plays in the canon. An unsparing portrait of victims of war, it does not offer cheery visions of sugarplum fairies or redemptions of scrooges; needless to say, it’s not...

30/11/2024

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The NOLA Project's "Pass Over" and Crescent City Stage’s "A Christmas Carol" as well as New York's "Tammy Faye" and "Cellino V. Barnes" plus exhibits at The Metropolitan Museum and Morgan Library, please click on the link below

Pass Over at The New Orleans African American Museum The NOLA Project recently presented the regional premier of Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s Pass Over at The New Orleans African American Museum (NOAAM). I was out of town during its first two weekends but caught it during its last week. I’m happ...

25/11/2024

To see Brian Sands' reviews of "Beetlejuice" and "Open Up the Kingdom Mama", please click on the link below

Beetlejuice at the Saenger Theatre through November 17 It’s showtime at the Saenger Theatre through November 17 as the musical Beetlejuice has come to town. And for those looking for “a show about death”, as the opening number promises, and, perhaps more importantly in these challenging times,...

25/10/2024

To see Brian Sands' reviews of Cirque du Soleil’s "Songblazers–A Journey into Country Music" and Broadway's "The Roommate" starring Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone plus previews of the many shows running now thru the Holidaze in the New Orleans area, please click on the link below

Songblazers–A Journey into Country Music touring through Feb. 2, 2025 Cirque du Soleil’s Songblazers–A Journey into Country Music played here at the Saenger Theatre last month but, as it’s touring the country, I thought it’s still worth writing about in case it turns up in a theater near y...

12/10/2024

To see Brian Sands' reviews of Trey Ming's "The Night Fiona Flawless Went Mad" at The AllWays Lounge, and Aqua Mob's "Evil Dead 2: Drowned by Dawn" at The Midtown Hotel, please click on the link below

The Night Fiona Flawless Went Mad at The AllWays Lounge through October 14 Trey Ming’s musical The Night Fiona Flawless Went Mad has triumphantly returned to The AllWays Lounge where it premiered five years ago. When it debuted in 2019, I wrote admiringly that “if it started off as mere camp, by...

26/09/2024

To see Brian Sands' reviews of JPAS' "School of Rock", Crescent City Stage's "A Doll’s House", Varla Jean Merman's Errors Tour, and "Wit & Wrath: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker" at the WWII Museum’s Stage Door Canteen, please click on the link below

School of Rock at Hammond’s Columbia Theatre on September 27 Cooper Andry, Merah Benoit, Blake Bosley, August Doussan, Waylon Hagale, Bailey Hall, Drago Han, Anna LaNasa, Andrew Letellier, Everly Materne, Annelise Perez, Parker Portera-Dufrene, Braiden Rome, Jane Sale, Basil Stanley, Laura Toomer,...

08/09/2024

To learn who the winner of the Critics' Choice Gay Appreciation Award was and see Brian Sands' review of "RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars LIVE" and his write-up of NYC's "Oh, Mary!", Mercer Labs, and The Museum of the City of New York's exhibit about Shirley Chisholm, click on the link below--

2024 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 The NOLA Project‘s production of Dracula, Pete McElligott’s fiercely intelligent adaptation of B...

23/08/2024

To read about shows coming up in the next month or so, click on the link below

Curtain Up While a few shows will be running during the rest of this month (Tennessee Williams Theatre Company’s A Streetcar Named Desire at The Marigny Opera House thru Aug. 24; 30 by Ninety’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in Mandeville thru Aug. 25), one of our city’s biggest cu...

17/08/2024

To see Brian Sands' review of "CATS: The Jellicle Ball", one of the most amazing shows to come along in a long time, please click on the link below

New in New York I rarely, if ever, begin a column with an exhortation to those who are in NYC or will be there before September 8, but here goes: Run, scamper or do whatever it takes to get a ticket to CATS: The Jellicle Ball, the most brilliant, exciting, magical “new” show in New […]

11/08/2024

To see Brian Sands' reviews of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Julius Caesar" as well as a tribute to Kiane D. Davis, please click on the link below

A Streetcar Named Desire at Marigny Opera House thru August 24 Shortly after I saw The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans’ (TWTC) production of A Streetcar Named Desire, I (and presumably the rest of the audience) received an email which said: We are aware of a first time technical ...

12/07/2024

To see the Critics’ Choice Gay Appreciation Award nominees as well as Brian Sands' Critic's Notebook about Sondheim and a write-up of Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre’s "Anything Goes", plus previews of the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane's "Julius Caesar", The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans' "A Streetcar Named Desire" at The Marigny Opera House, Anthony Bean Community Theater's "Grandma, Grandpa & Sunday Morning" at the Millie Charles Auditorium, "The Pirates of Penzance" at Playmakers Theater of Covington, 30 by Ninety Theatre's "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee", "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" at the Mahalia Jackson Theater, and "Bette Bathhouse & Beyond" at Café Istanbul, 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 34th Gay Appreciation Awards (GAA). They are: Carrie: Blood in the Water produced by Aqua Mob Advertisement (top) ...

28/06/2024

To see Brian Sands' reviews of "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)[Revised][Again]"; "The Cake"; "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Clue", please click on the link below

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)[Revised][Again] at Tulane’s Lupin Theater In the course of 90 minutes or so, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)[Revised][Again] serves up, in one form or another, all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays (38, if you count Two Noble Kins...

02/06/2024

To see Brian Sands' reviews of Jenny Mercein‘s "Two Elizas" and Intramural Theater's "The Bermuda Can Company", please click on the link below

Two Elizas at Hermann-Grima House I didn’t know quite what to expect as I approached Two Elizas at Hermann-Grima House on the last day of its too brief, four-day run. Purposefully, that is, as I like to encounter new works knowing as little about them as possible. I did know it was written and per...

21/05/2024

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The NOLA Project‘s "Shakespeare’s Tempest Reimagined"; The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company's "The Felt Menagerie"; Le Petit's "Born With Teeth"; and "Mrs. Doubtfire" at the Saenger plus previews of Intramural Theater's "The Bermuda Can Company"; Crescent City Stage's "The Cake"; Komenka's 42nd Spring Concert; N.O. Shakespeare Festival's "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]"; Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre's "Sweeney Todd" and "Assassins The Musical" at The Azienda Theatre, as well as a tribute to the late Glenn Meche, please click on the link below

Shakespeare’s Tempest Reimagined at the Lafitte Greenway Station through May 25 Magic Shakespeare employs magic in The Tempest, his autumnal dramedy, to move his plot along and serve as a metaphor for the spells he had cast with words in all his previous works. Advertisement Those who go to The NO...

16/05/2024

To see Brian Sands' review of Bianca Del Rio’s "Dead Inside" and Broadway@NOCCA's Claybourne Elder, please click on the link below

Bianca Del Rio’s Dead Inside at the Mahalia Jackson Theater Bianca Del Rio recently brought her Dead Inside Comedy Tour to the Mahalia Jackson Theater. It was boring, unfunny, tedious, uninspired, slow-moving, and witty as a rock. I have no idea why so many people paid their hard-earned money to s...

05/04/2024

To see Brian Sands' review of The WWII Museum’s "The Diary of Anne Frank" plus previews of Junebug Productions' "Sole 2 Soul" at Ashé Powerhouse Theater, JPAS' "Noises Off", Le Petit's "Born with Teeth", Broadway@NOCCA's Claybourne Elder, and Parsons Dance with The Allen Toussaint Orchestra at the Mahalia Jackson Theater; and some fun stuff in NYC, please click on the link below

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The Diary of Anne Frank at WWII Museum’s Stage Door Canteen The WWII Museum’s Stage Door Canteen recently presented The Diary of Anne Frank, the classic drama about eight Jews hiding from the N***s in a concealed storage attic in Amsterdam. This production used Wendy Kesselman’s adaptation of ...

25/03/2024

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans' "Kingdom of Earth", "Beautiful, The Carole King Musical" at Le Petit; and the recent productions of "Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations" and "Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue" at the Saenger Theatre, please click on the link below

Kingdom of Earth at Loyola’s Marquette Theatre through March 24 Through March 24, at Loyola’s Marquette Theatre, The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans (TWTC) is revisiting the first script they produced back in 2015, 1968’s Kingdom of Earth from Williams’ later period, a tale...

13/03/2024

To see Brian Sands' reviews of The NOLA Project's "The Colored Museum" and Slidell Little Theatre's "Next to Normal", click on the link below

Dear Readers–Greetings from Shreveport! For the past 21+ years I have always tried to give you well-crafted reviews. This week, however, due to a variety of circumstances including having to be in north Louisiana on business, I’ve fallen behind schedule but do want to let you know about two most...

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