Shakespeare’s words return to the great outdoors, the swans head to Jefferson Performing Arts Center, and the New Marigny Theatre becomes home to the “Bastard Nation.”
‘Bard @ the Batture’
The original Globe Theater in England was an open-air round theater where playwright Williams Shakespeare launched his immortal scenes onto the world (well, onto England at first).
And now, Crescent City Stage returns to the works to the Mississippi River for a unique presentation of some Shakespeare for “Bard @ the Batture.” The show will be a one-night-only event at 6:30 p.m. April 2, 25 Walnut St.
With a cast of three women and three men, the evening of parts of 12 shows and sonnets will delve into a variety of shows, from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “As You Like It” to “Romeo and Juliet” and “Much Ado About Nothing.” The show features the talents of Mallory Osigian Favaloro, Nia Ragini, Wendy Miklovic, Nick DiJulio, Jarrod Smith and Jason Bayle.
Co-conceived by duo of Michael A. and Elizabeth Elkins Newcomer, Michael Newcomer also serves as the director of the production.
“There’s something powerful about experiencing Shakespeare under the open sky, and ‘Bard @ the Batture’ is our way of reconnecting great classical work with a modern New Orleans audience,” he said. “With a professional cast made up largely of Actors’ Equity Association members, we’re delivering work at a very high level.”
The company and the concept have already proven popular with local audiences.
“The fact that we sold out two weeks before the event shows us how eager this city is for more theatrical programming like this.”
A waiting list is still available for those interested in the show at crescentcitystage.com.
‘Bastard Nation’
Nothing brings out family secrets like wills and death, and that’s exactly what’s happening in the final installment of a trilogy on reproductive health by local playwright Anita Vatshell opening Thursday at New Marigny Theatre.
In “Bastard Nation: Decolonizing Love and Family,” Vatshell’s story looks at the death of family matriarch and the secrets revealed to the siblings through her will. The comedy looks at adoption, generational curses and “the messy dynamics of family love.”
Featured in the show, directed by Pamela Davis Noland, are Toya Boudy, Todd d’Amour, Mark Druhet, Andrea Dubé, Claudia Duran, Terry Miles and Jennifer Pagan.
A registered nurse with more than two decades of reproductive health care and advocacy, Vatshell’s first two works include “Operating Theatre” and “Open Up the Kingdom Mama.”
The show runs at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Wednesday and April 3-4 at 2301 Marais St. Tickets are $25. Visit newmarignytheatre.com.
‘Swan Lake’
The corps de ballet of ‘little swans’ in ‘Swan Lake,’ coming to the Jefferson Performance Arts Center April 2.
Love isn’t always black and white — and with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the colorful tale of intrigue, mystery and romance becomes a multihued performance of vivid tones.
Siegfreid and Odette fall in love in ‘Swan Lake’ coming for a one-night-only performance April 2 at Metairie’s Jefferson Performing Arts Center.
“Swan Lake,” the ballet of Prince Siegfried and the cursed Odette (the white swan) an evil sorcerer, his daughter (the black swan) and the corps de ballet of swans will bring the classic tale to life at Jefferson Performing Arts Center for one night only at 7 p.m. April 2.
International Ballet Stars bring their production to the Metairie facility with new hand-painted sets and more than 200 costumes.
Tickets start at $35. Visit jeffersonpac.com.
Onstage this week, March 26-April 1
Dominique McClennan
Elizabeth McCoy
“DUTCHMAN”: 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday; Tulane Department of Theatre & Dance, Lab Theatre, 104 McWilliams Hall, 70 Newcomb Circle. Two characters create the exchange of themes of race, identity and societal expectations on the New York subway. Tickets start at $15. purplepass.com/tulanetd.
The Broadway cast of ‘The Great Gatsby.’
“THE GREAT GATSBY”: 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday; Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s epic tale of lavish living, love and loss comes to life in a toe-tapping tour de force lavish musical as the Jazz Age of bootlegging, flappers and eye-popping parties gets the Broadway treatment as told by the narrator character Nick Carraway, with music and lyrics by Grammy winner Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen. Tickets start at $39. saengernola.com.
“GUYS AND DOLLS”: 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday; Le Petite Théâtre du Vieux Carré, 616 St. Peter St. From the sewers of the Big Apple to the hot spots of Havana, the show is a whirlwind of interesting characters and the power of love, filled with the colorful denizens of journalist Damon Runyon’s New York in the 1920s and ’30s. Tickets start at $82. lepetittheatre.com.
“LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS”: 7:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday; Marquette Theater at Loyola University, 6365 St. Charles Ave. Musical follows the strange happenings of Seymour Krellborn, a lowly clerk in a Skid Row flower shop who secretly dreams of a relationship with beautiful yet masochistic co-worker Audrey, who’s dating a sadistic dentist. Things start going very bizarrely when Seymour gets a strange new plant that’s actually from outer space and thrives on human blood. Tickets start at $20. cmm.loyno.edu.
The cast of ‘The Nerd’ at 30 by Ninety with Nino Bonura Jr., center, as the title character.
“THE NERD”: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday; 30 by Ninety Theatre, 880 Lafayette St., Mandeville. Willum Cubbert feels indebted to a fellow GI from Vietnam but has never met his savior. But for his upcoming birthday, the mystery man plans to show up. The problem is, he’s a nerd and an oaf and Willum can’t get rid of him. Tickets start at $20. 30byninety.com.
LaKesha Glover
“SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS”: 7:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday; Lower Depths Theatre, Loyola University, 6363 St. Charles Ave. The Tennessee Williams Theatre Co., in conjunction with the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, presents the one-act dark comedy about a foggy night in a bar called Monk’s Place and the people who populate the watering hole that evening. Tickets start at $42. Visit twtheatrenola.com.
Patrick Nicks is Stanley, Lauren Guglielmello is Stella and Jaclyn Bethany is Blanche in the Irene Collective’s production of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ opening this weekend.
“A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE”: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturday through April 3; Big Couch, 1045 Desire St. The fragile world of Blanche DuBois takes an unintended excursion away from reality in Tennessee Williams’ classic by the Irene Collective, held in conjunction with the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival. Tickets start at $25. streetcarnola.net.
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