Theatre

“Grease” (Kenner)

Jan 11-27 at the Rivertown Repertory Theatre, 325 Minor St., with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and on Sundays at 2:30 p.m. A pre-performance buffet catered by Messina’s is also available. Tickets are $22.

“Steel Magnolias” (Baton Rouge)

Jan 18-Feb. 3, at the Baton Rouge Little Theatre, 7155 Florida Blvd., at 7:30 p.m. with 2 p.m. matinees on weekends. Tickets are $20. For more info: (225) 924-6496. Set in a Louisiana hair salon, the play traces the lives of proprietor Truvy, her inexperienced assistant and four of her regular customers as they run the gamut of the birth, marriage and death cycle that is life.

“Fiddler on the Roof” (Westwego)

Jan. 19-27, at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays, at the Westwego Performing Arts Theatre, 177 Sala Ave. #A. For more info: (504) 371-3330. Follows Tevye, a dairyman, searching for appropriate husbands for his three eldest daughters – Tzeital, Hodel and Chava.

The 2008 Outworks Festival (Baton Rouge)

Jan. 22-27, at the LSU Department of Theatre Studio, with 7:30 p.m. curtains and a 2 p.m. matinee on Jan. 27. Tickets are $6. Promises both madcap comedy and intense drama. Plays will be split into two three-play bills that will perform on alternating days. For more info: (225) 578-4174 or www.theatre.lsu.edu.

“Halley’s Comet with John Amos” (Baton Rouge)

At the Magnolia Performing Arts Pavilion, Baton Rouge Community College, Jan. 23, at 7:30 p.m. Emmy-award winning actor Amos stars as an 87-year-old man who shares his lifetime memories with Halley’s Comet, which he had seen as an 11-year-old boy. For more info: (225) 216-8200 or visit www.mybrcc.edu.