Theatre

“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.

“Speak Truth to Power” (Baton Rouge)

LSU Swine Palace, LSU’s campus, Feb. 6-24. Tickets are $15.50 adults, $8.50 students. For more info: (225) 578-3527. The voices of 50 human rights activists come together in Ariel Dorfman’s Off-Broadway hit.

“13 Tzarneti,” (Thibodaux)

Feb. 13, at 6:30 p.m., at NSU’s Le Bijou Theatre, Ellendale Drive. Admission is free. A crime drama about a young immigrant from Eastern Europe who takes on the identity of his former employer and embarks on a suspenseful journey that culminates in a potentially lethal game of Russian roulette.

“A Soldier’s Play” (New Orleans)

Feb. 14 through March 9, at the Anthony Bean Community Theatre, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave. For more info: www.anthonybeantheater.com. Featuring Anthony Bean, Harold Evans, Nick Thompson and T.J. Toups.

“Private Property” (Metairie)

Feb. 14-24, at the Actor’s Theatre of New Orleans, 4539 N. I-10 Service Road, W. Suite 200. For more info: (504) 456-4111. Local playwright Rene J.F. Piazza creates three one-act plays that skirt on the edge of absurd and funny to shocking and unsettling.

“The Great American Trailer Park Musical” (Westwego)

Feb. 15 through March 9, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays, at the Westwego Performing Arts Theatre, 177A Sala Ave. For more info: (504) 371-3330. This new show explores agoraphobia, adultery, ‘80s nostalgia, spray cheese, road kill, pregnancy, a broken electric chair, kleptomania, strippers, flan and disco.

“Flanagan’s Wake” (Westwego)

Feb. 22 through March 9, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays, at the Treato Wego Theatre, 177A Sala Ave. For more info: (504) 371-3330. The friends of dearly departed Flanagan gather to mourn him in this audience interactive comedy.

“A Flea In Her Ear, A Comedy by Georges Feydeau” (Kenner)

Feb. 22 through March 9, at the Rivertown Repertory Theatre, 325 Minor St. Tickets are $22 for adults, $20 students, $10 children. A pre-performance buffet is available for $20 per person. For more info: 468-7221. The flea in the ear of Madame Chandebise is the uneasy feeling she has about her husband’s fidelity.

“Where the Girls Were” (New Orleans)

Feb. 22 through March 16, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, at the Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre, 616 St. Peter St. Tickets are $32 for adults, $28 for students. For more info: (504) 522-2081. A doo-wopping trip back to the girl groups of the 1960s and the music that was on every transistor radio and black and white TV in the Big Easy.

“Broken in Eggs” (Baton Rouge)

Feb. 27 through March 9, at LSU’s Hatcher Hall Theatre, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15.50. For more info: (225) 578-3527. As the Hernandez family gathers for a wedding, battle lines are drawn in this multi-generational comedy about a Cuban-American family’s journey to find its place in a new world.

“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (Baton Rouge)

Feb. 29 through March 16, 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. Tennessee Wiliams’ classic drama follows a Mississippi family jeopardized by hypocrisy, avarice and hidden desire.

“Tosca” (Metairie)

Feb. 29 through March 2, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays, at the Jefferson Performing Arts, 400 Phlox Ave. For more info: (877) 884-5727. Puccini tells of the idyllic love affair between a painter and an opera star against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars.

“Windwood Theatricals: Little Women, the Musical” (Baton Rouge)

Feb. 29, at 7 p.m., at the Magnolia Performing Arts Pavilion. For more info: (225) 216-8200. The production follows the saga of the March sisters n Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy n as they grow up during the U.S. Civil War.