CULTURAL EVENTS
IN AND AROUND NEW ORLEANS | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019
August: Osage County
September 11-October 6
Thu.-Sat: 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 3 p.m.
Southern Rep Theatre
NOTE: ALL PERFORMANCES LISTED HERE ARE TICKETED EVENTS UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.
2541 Bayou Road, New Orleans | (504) 522-6545
When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after
dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes
in a maelstrom of repressed truths & unsettling secrets.
9 to 5
September 13-29
Thu.-Sat. 8 p.m.; Sun. 2 p.m.
Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts
325 Minor Street, Kenner
(504) 461-9475
With music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and based on the
1980 hit movie, this popular comedy pits three female
coworkers in an office against a sexist, egotistical boss
with hilarious results.
Beethoven's "Emperor" & Mahler 5
September 19 & 21 | 7:30 p.m.
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Orpheum Theater
129 Roosevelt Way, New Orleans | (504) 523-6530
LPO opens its new season with a celebration of the 250th
anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with his Piano Concerto No.
5, “Emperor,” followed by Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.
Love Letters of World War II
September 20-22
Melange Dance Company | Marigny Opera House
725 St. Ferdinand Street, New Orleans
info@melange.dance
Melange Dance portrays love stories that flourished
during a tumultuous time that shaped the world, largely
through written correspondence between soldiers in
combat and their sweethearts back home. Featuring
Sarah Quintana on vocals and guitar and Christophe
Lampidecchia on accordion.
Poulenc Trio with Alex Fiterstein, Clarinet
September 24 | 7:30 p.m.
New Orleans Friends of Music
Dixon Hall, Tulane University | (504) 895-0690
Joined by clarinetist Alex Fiterstein, the Poulenc Trio
(Irina Kaplan Lande, piano; Bryan Young, bassoon; and
James Austin Smith, oboe) returns to New Orleans with a
varied program of international music.
A New Stage
September 27-28 | 8 p.m.
New Orleans Ballet Theatre
Freda Lupin Memorial Hall at NOCCA
2800 Chartres St., New Orleans | (504) 826-0646
Join NOBT for an evening of contemporary and
neoclassical works by award-winning local and international
choreographers, featuring “Hello My Name is Johnny
Cash” with choreography by Gregory Schramel, plus world
premieres by Diogo De Lima and Maurice Causey.
Carmen
October 4 & 6 | Fri. 8 p.m. and Sun. 2:30 p.m.
New Orleans Opera Association
Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts
Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans | (504) 529-3000
Georges Bizet’s classic drama of a gypsy temptress who
breaks men’s hearts as quickly as she wins them, playing a
deadly game that doesn’t end well for her.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
October 4-6 | 8 p.m.
Marigny Opera Ballet
Marigny Opera House
725 St. Ferdinand Street, New Orleans | (504) 948-9998
A full-length premiere by choreographer Derwin May Jr.,
danced to a commissioned score by Tucker Fuller, and
accompanied by New Resonance Orchestra and Krewe de
Voix Chamber Ensemble.
Noises Off
October 4-20 | Call for show times and tickets
Le Petit Theatre
616 St. Peter Street, New Orleans | (504) 522-2081
Step behind the curtain and meet the under-rehearsed
and over-worked cast and crew with a penchant for
drama more personal than professional. As the production
progresses, the bumbling cast brings down the house -
literally!
Concert No. 1, works by Beethoven and Sibelius
October 13 and 14 | Call for concert times
New Orleans Civic Symphony
University of New Orleans Performing Arts Center
2000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans | (504) 233-8775
The UNO-based volunteer orchestra performs
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 (“Pastorale”) and Jean
Sibelius’ “Karelia Suite.” Also featured will be the winner
of the New Orleans Piano Institute’s 2019 piano concerto
winner. Free.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
October 16-November 10 | 7 p.m.
The NOLA Project
Besthoff Sculpture Garden
City Park, New Orleans | (504) 302-9117
The NOLA Project presents an outdoor, spooky,
immersive adaptation of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,”
featuring Ichabod Crane and the infamous Headless
Horseman – but with a twist – as the cast and crew are
mysteriously killed off in humorous fashion.
The Sound of Music
October 18-27 | Fri.-Sat. 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 2 p.m.
Jefferson Performing Arts Society
Jefferson Performing Arts Center
6400 Airline Drive, Metairie | (504) 885-2000
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s final collaboration, loosely
based on the true-life story of the Trapp Family Singers
and their daring escape from Nazi-occupied Austria.
Trinity Irish Dance Company
October 19 | 8 p.m.
New Orleans Ballet Association
Mahalia Jackson Theater
Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans | (504) 522-0996
NOBA opens its 2019-20 season with Chicago’s
Trinity Irish Dance Company, blending the virtuosity
and rapid-fire rhythms of traditional Irish dance with
contemporary American innovations.
Christian Tetzlaff, Violin, and Lars Vogt, Piano
October 23 | 7:30 p.m.
New Orleans Friends of Music
Dixon Hall, Tulane University | (504) 895-0690
With a long history of performing together,
Christian Tetzlaff (violin) and Lars Vogt (piano),
have established themselves among the leading
classical musicians of their generation, displaying
remarkable technical skill and
stylistic understanding.
Romantic German Masters with Cellist Lynn Harrell
October 24 | 7:30 p.m.
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Orpheum Theater
129 Roosevelt Way, New Orleans | (504) 523-6530
The LPO takes on an all-German repertoire with Brahms’
“Variations on a Theme by Haydn” and his Symphony
No. 2, plus Schumann’s “Cello Concerto No. 1” featuring
cellist, Lynn Harrell.
November
October 25-November 10 | Thu.-Sat. 8 p.m.; Sun. 2 p.m.
Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts
325 Minor Street, Kenner | (504) 461-9475
Written by David Mamet eight years before the
election of Donald Trump to the presidency, this
political comedy abounds with bad behavior as an
incompetent, corrupt president desperately tries
to cling to the nation’s highest office.
Native Gardens
October 30-November 17 | Thu.-Sat. 8 p.m.; Sun. 3 p.m.
Southern Rep Theatre
2541 Bayou Road, New Orleans | (504) 522-6545
An impending barbecue and a long-standing
disagreement over a fence line spirals into an all-out
border dispute, exposing two neighbors’ notions of race,
taste, class and privilege.
Ancient Spirits: An All Hallow's Eve Performance
October 31 | 7:30 p.m.
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Orpheum Theater
129 Roosevelt Way, New Orleans | (504) 523-6530
This All Hallow’s Eve performance by the LPO
evokes themes of terror and madness, including
“The Isle of the Dead” by Rachmaninov, Grieg’s
“Peer Gynt Suites” 1 and 2 and
Stravinsky’s “Petrushka.”
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