Theatre

Erykah Badu’s ‘New Amerykah’ a rambling, but brillant, disc
February 29, 2008
Nolan Joseph Thibodeaux
March 4, 2008
Erykah Badu’s ‘New Amerykah’ a rambling, but brillant, disc
February 29, 2008
Nolan Joseph Thibodeaux
March 4, 2008

“Betrayal” (New Orleans)

March 5-9, at Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., Building 1. For more info: (504) 671-5012. The play begins in the present, with the meeting of Emma and Jerry, whose adulterous affair of seven years ended two years earlier. Emma’s marriage to Robert, Jerry’s best friend is now breaking up, and she needs someone to talk to.


“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.


“A Soldier’s Play” (New Orleans)

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.


“The Great American Trailer Park Musical” (Westwego)


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)


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)

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.

“Broken in Eggs” (Baton Rouge)

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.

“Gabrielle,” (Thibodaux)

March 12, at 6:30 p.m., at NSU’s Le Bijou Theatre, Ellendale Drive. Admission is free. Set before World War I, the story is about the dissolution of a loveless marriage. Speakers Glen Pitre and Michele Benoit will discuss international filmmaker and will introduce the film.

“Weird” (New Orleans)

March 12-15, at the University of New Orleans – Lab Theatre. For more info: (504) 554-2335. Brett Ryback’s winning one-act play at the 2007 Tennessee Williams Festival about the three “Weird Sisters” from Macbeth.

“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.

“The Clean House” (New Orleans)

Through March 16, at the Southern Repertory Theatre, Canal Place, third floor. For more info: (504) 522-6545. This Pulitzer Prize finalist play comes to the understanding that our houses, like our relationships, are never as clean as we want them to be.

“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.