Theatre

“Don’t Dress for Dinner” (New Orleans)

March 6-22, at the Actor’s Theatre of New Orleans, 4539 N. I-10 Service Road, W. Suite 200. For more info: (504) 456-4111. Bernard is planning a cozy weekend with his mistress while his wife is away. There’s just one slight problem – his wife returns! Chaos and confusion reign as Bernard juggles his mistress, his wife, her lover, the cook and the cook’s husband.

“The Inspector General” (New Orleans)

March 6-29, at St. Mark’s Community Center, 1130 N. Rampart St. For more info: (504) 529-1681. The unscrupulous mayor of an insular and provincial city has adeptly surrounded himself with a flock of crooked and apathetic officials. The hospital is a catastrophe, the teachers are unqualified, the courtroom houses geese, the postmaster reads all the mail, and the police are perpetually drunk.

“Calme au Blanc, Disaster Number 1604, Part 3” (Metairie)

March 13-29, at the Big Top Gallery, 1638 Clio St. For more info: (504) 569-2700. As a black man is arrested after fleeing a murder scene, Frankie St. Pierre is planning a revolution as he struggles to wrap his head around the precarious existence of New Orleans and his place there.

“Where the Girls Were” (New Orleans)

Through March 23, at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, 616 St. Peter St. For more info: (504) 522-2081. A doo-wopping trip back to the girls groups of the 1960s.