Jun 16, 2023
Romeo & Juliet June 30, 2023 6:30PM Westwego Cultural Center 177 Sala Ave | Westwego, LA TICKETS WILL ON SALE AT THE DOOR ONLY STARTING AT 6:00 P.M. CASH AND CARD ACCEPTED $5-$15+ SLIDING SCALE In Verona, California during the summer of 1967, the sudden meeting of two women alters the course of their lives irrevocably. Despite the longstanding enmity between their ideologies, the two women resolve to take the risk of pursuing their love, recognizing its value above all else. Pomegranate Playhouse's rendition of William Shakespeare's renowned play explores how women love and are instructed to love within the framework of "the nuclear family." Through themes of love, passion, conflict, and prejudice, Romeo and Juliet tells a story that highlights issues that still exist in contemporary society. Director: Carlie Goodlett Cast: Diana Ledet (Juliet), Shelby Wynne (Romeo), Avery Colle (Mercutio), Reagan Lincoln (Tybalt), Kaitlin Lombard (The Nurse), Annie Barker (Friar Lawrence), Carlie Goodlett (Benvolio), Benjamin Dougherty (Lord Capulet), Scarlett […]
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May 15, 2023
THE NUTCRACKER in partnership with Jefferson Ballet Theatre Dec. 16 & 17, 2023 Sat. + Sun. @ 2:00 pm Jefferson Performing Arts Center 6400 Airline Drive | Metairie Purchase Tickets Sat, 12/16/23, 2:00 PM Tickets » Sun, 12/17/23, 2:00 PM Tickets » Sponsored by: Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Based on “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by E. T. A. Hoffmann Featuring the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Dennis Assaf! Creative Team Expand Directed by Kenneth Beck Choreography by Kenneth Beck & Kimberly Matulich-Beck The ballet is directed by Kenneth Beck and choreographed by Kimberly Matulich-Beck with the Jefferson Ballet Theatre. This is JBT’s fifth annual collaboration with JPAS and its 16th annual Nutcracker production. Toy soldiers, the Mouse King, and the Sugar Plum Fairy--experience these classic characters again this holiday season as part of the fantastical journey with The Nutcracker. Travel to the Land of Sweets with Clara as she befriends a nutcracker who comes to life on Christmas Eve to wage […]
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May 15, 2023
The Ballet Goes to Broadway May 18-19, 2024 Jefferson Performing Arts Center 6400 Airline Drive | Metairie, LA Purchase Tickets Sat, 05/18/24 @ 7:30 pm Tickets» Sun, 05/19/24 @ 2:00 pm Tickets » Creative Team Expand Directo/Choreographer Kenneth Beck Enjoy iconic dance numbers from 8 Broadway musicals spanning 8 decades of Broadway So much of what we love about Broadway musicals is their iconic dance numbers. Join us as we explore and celebrate the best of Broadway dancing in this showstopper showcase choreographed by Jefferson Ballet Theatre’s Kenneth Beck (The Nutcracker, Jesus Christ Superstar) and Kimberly Matulich-Beck. Featuring an ensemble of over 40 local dancers and two visiting artists, the show will include a variety of dance styles, including tap, ballet, and jazz from eight Broadway shows spanning from 1936-2000. The two visiting dancers are Chloe Slade and LeAnthony Douglas, featured in Beck’s 2022 presentation of The Nutcracker. Despite its title, not all pieces are traditional ballet dances. “The definition of […]
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Apr 13, 2023
The Mountaintop Due to circumstances beyond our control, we regret to inform you that our 2024 production of The Mountaintop has been canceled due to the lead actor's resignation from the project. It is too late to audition and recast for this extraordinary role. We are looking to stage this important and remarkable show about Dr. King sometime in the coming year and will announce those plans as soon as possible. In the meantime, if you have purchased tickets and did not receive our email notification, please email boxoffice@jpas.org.
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Apr 13, 2023
Looped November 9-19, 2023 Thu, Fri, @ Sat @ and 7:30 PM Sun @ 2:00 PM Westwego Cultural Center 177 Sala Avenue | Westwego, LA Purchase Tickets Sit back and let one of Hollywood’s favorite “bad girls” entertain you with her titillating stories, quips, insults, and a few of her secrets. WARNING: This play contains strong language and explicit sexual references. This three-person drama is based on a real event that took place in the summer of 1965, when an inebriated Tallulah Bankhead required a full day to redub - or loop - one line of dialogue for her last movie, Die! Die! My Darling! The recording session ends up lasting 8 hours due to her drunken behavior, physical and mental meanderings, and constant need for dialogue, distraction, reassurance, and her own brand of talk therapy with the tech crew. Secrets are revealed, confessions are made, and both Tallulah and the sound engineer end up “looping back” to their own traumas […]
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Apr 13, 2023
Noises Off April 12-21, 2024 Jefferson Performing Arts Center 6400 Airline Drive | Metairie, LA Purchase Tickets Fri, 4/12/24 @ 7:30 pm Tickets» Sun, 4/14/24 @ 2:00 pm Tickets » Thu, 4/18/24 @ 7:30 pm Tickets » Sat, 4/20/24 @ 7:30 pm Tickets » Sun, 4/21/24 @ 2:00 pm Tickets » "A play within a play, done playfully...Every actor holds their own, with Elizabeth McCoy as the ditzy ingenue shining amongst them. Eric Porter’s set design is astounding, and as two-faced as the characters themselves. I won’t tell you what they do to the set for Act II, but it elicited a 'Wow!' from most people seated near me." --Outalldaynola.com This play within a play is a fond look at the follies of theatre folk, whose out-of-control egos, lack of skill, and passionate affairs turn every performance into a high-risk adventure. A touring theatre troupe’s production of a sex comedy called Nothing On is on view here from start to un-finish: […]
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Apr 13, 2023
Jesus Christ Superstar March 15-24, 2024 Jefferson Performing Arts Center 6400 Airline Drive | Metairie, LA TOURING SHOW: April 5 at 7:30 p.m. Columbia Theatre, Hammond, LA GET TICKETS » Purchase Tickets Experience the passion of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s famously energetic and anachronistic rock opera telling the story of Jesus’ final days. Audience Alert: This show contains use of strobe lights and includes some violent scenes that may not be suitable for all audience members. Viewer discretion is advised. Experience the passion of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s famously energetic and anachronistic rock opera telling the story of Jesus’ final days. Audience Alert: This show contains use of strobe lights and includes some violent scenes that may not be suitable for all audience members. Viewer discretion is advised. This controversial and popular 1971 Broadway musical infused with rock, gospel, folk, and funk as well as modern colloquialisms is set against the events told in the Gospels as seen through the […]
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Apr 13, 2023
Relive the hilariously zany 1974 Mel Brooks (Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, The Producers) movie with this Broadway musical featuring the same monster-sized silliness. This zany musical “brings to life” the story of mad scientist Frederick Frankenstein, who repeats his grandfather’s monster mistakes–while creating a lot of insane fun along the way. Victor Frankenstein has died and Frederick travels to his grandfather’s castle in Transylvania where he ends up conducting his grandfather’s experiments to create human life. 2009 Grammy Award Nominee for "Best Musical Theater Album" 2008 Winner for "Best Musical", Outer Critics Circle Award 2008 Drama Desk Nomination for "Outstanding Lyrics" 2018 Laurence Olivier Awards for "Best New Musical" Rated PG13 for suggestive lyrics and mature content Creative Team Conducted by Maestro Dennis Assaf Leslie Castay - Director Ken Leach - Music Director Jaune Buisson - Choreographer Nikki Lopez - Stage Manager Eric Porter - Technical Director / Sound Designer Emery Foster - Scenic Designer Olivia Winter - Props Designer Stephen Thurber […]
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Apr 13, 2023
Steel Magnolias September 21-October 1 Thu, fri, sat @ 7:30 PM Sun @ 2:00 PM Westwego Cultural Center 177 Sala Avenue | Westwego, LA Purchase Tickets Seating iS General Admission Laugh and cry with these lovable Louisiana ladies who are “as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel" as they support each other through the challenges of life. This tear-jerking comedy is set in a beauty salon in the fictional northwestern Louisiana parish of Chinquapin, based on the writer’s hometown of Natchitoches, Louisiana, and the death of his sister. The play spans three years in the lives of Truby, Shelby, Annelle, M’Lynn, and Clairee, whose heartaches and hilarious attitudes pay tribute to southern women’s survival skills. Experience the eternally relevant 1987 Broadway hit drama that became a beloved movie in 1989 starring Sally Field, Shirley MacClaine, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton, and Darryl Hannah. With country fried quips such as “I’m not crazy—I’ve just been in a very bad […]
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Apr 13, 2023
The View Upstairs September 8-17, 2023 Jefferson Performing Arts Center 6400 Airline Drive | Metairie, LA Purchase Tickets Fri, 9/8/23 @ 7:30 pm Tickets» Sun, 9/10/23 @ 2:00 pm Tickets » Thu, 9/14/23 @ 7:30 pm Tickets » Sat, 9/16/23 @ 7:30 pm Tickets » Sun, 9/17/23 @ 2:00 pm Tickets » A Musical by Max Vernon Take a step back in time to the French Quarter in 1973 as the patrons of The UpStairs Lounge help a modern-day millennial reevaluate his concepts of love and freedom. Wes, a 20-something social media obsessed fashion designer has returned from New York to his hometown of New Orleans to transform the former Upstairs Lounge nightclub into a retail store. After a nerve-wracking visit with his realtor, he time travels through a burned-out curtain into the 1973 arson-destroyed club. There, he meets the men who inhabited this “underground” venue decades ago. Despite the many limitations and challenges of the lounge patrons’ lives--and the […]
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