May 11, 2013

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Crescent City Lights Youth Theater provides quality performing arts programming for Greater New Orleans Area youth. The 2013 Crescent City Lights Youth Theater Summer Season features A Pocket Full of Rhymes – a Broadway classic that sets nursery rhymes to a catchy contemporary score covering the range of 20th century music...

Nov 30, 2011

I love any story that stands for what is right & fair, and at the root that is what the musical South Pacific is all about. A story set during World War II takes us on a 3 hour ride about racism & prejudice, things very prevalent then, & most would argue still now to this day. An honest but entertaining show, South Pacific had me laughing,...

Jul 18, 2011

Ever wanted to take a visit to Catfish Row in Charleston and bring to life Porgy and Bess? Porgy and Bess is a phenomenal opera first performed in 1935 featuring the great music by George Gershwin. This great play was based on DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy. It’s a story of a crippled street-beggar in the black tenements of Charleston, South Carolina in the 1920....

Jun 24, 2011

The new Broadway musical comedy THE ADDAMS FAMILY, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will kick off its national tour in New Orleans at The Mahalia Jackson Theater with 10 performances: Thursday, September 15 – Saturday, September 24, 2011. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 8, 2011, at 11 a.m....

Last night I had the pleasure of seeing the Broadway show RAIN, a Beatles tribute band, at the Mahalia Jackson Theater. It felt like the Beatles were back for another concert in New Orleans 46 years after their concert in City Park. RAIN was a wonderful experience- it felt like I was transported back in time to an actual Beatles concert. The set was fairly...