"A Lesson Before Dying" (Thibodaux)

March 17-19, at 7:30 p.m., and March 20 at 2 p.m., at Nicholls State’s Talbot Theater. Tickets are $10, or $5 students. (985) 448-4586. Adapted closely from Ernest J. Gaines’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the production tells the story of two young men – one a teacher, the other an inmate sentenced to die for a murder he probably did not commit – both trying to break free of the chains that society has placed on them.