New Orleans Theatre Newsroom

Ballets with a Twist, the New York-based company known for its inventive fusion of dance and pop culture, is set to make its Louisiana debut with COCKTAIL HOUR: THE SHOW on May 1 at the Rosa Hart Theatre. As part of the 2025 Banners at McNeese State University’s cultural season, this production promises a night of glamour, humor and immersive storytelling like no other.

Doubt, A Parable, the recipient of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, will run May 1-18, 2025. Full-season packages for the 2025-2026 Le Petit season are also now available.

Step inside the dim glow of flickering neon lights, where danger breathes down your neck and desire is a dangerous game. Blue Theatre Co. will premiere Bunny Hill Motel, an original noir thriller by Alex Anthony Vazquez.

Bon Bon Vivant (BBV), the genre bending New Orleans-based indie collective, will headline the Laniappe Stage at The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Tiny Beautiful Things is coming to Crescent City Stage for the 2025-26 season. The production is based on the book by Cheryl Strayed, adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos, and co-conceived by Marshall Heyman, Thomas Kail and Nia Vardalos.

There’s a moment in ORPHEUS DESCENDING when Valentine Xavier, tall, lanky, with enough charisma to make a statue blush, enters a dry goods store in a dying Mississippi town, and you just know something is about to combust.

New York City and New Orleans-based nonprofit dance and performing arts organization gaudanse and its Founding Artistic Director Imani Gaudin will present the world premiere of nanibu, a dance work. Learn more!

Crescent City Stage has announced its 2025 Season Programming opening with the regional premiere of Tiny Beautiful Things, followed by Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson - Apt. 2B and finishing the year with the return of the audience and critic holiday favorite A Christmas Carol.

On Sunday, March 23 at 2 pm, the famous Stella Shouting Contest will begin the 39th year of the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival, which returns to the historic French Quarter for its celebration of contemporary literature, theatre, New Orleans culture, and of course, Tennessee Williams.

The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans will kick off its tenth anniversary season with Orpheus Descending, a searing tale of passion, isolation, and rebellion set in the Mississippi Delta. Learn more!

Theatre Baton Rouge announced the early end of its 79th season and the cancellation of its 80th season due to revenue losses during the COVID-19 pandemic and increased production expenses. The final performance of Xanadu is scheduled for March 23.

Theatre Baton Rouge Has just announced, in the midst f its 79th season that it will officially close its doors on March 23, 2025. Read the statement in full below:

Oh, what a night you'll have at Le Petit Theatre when you come for Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. With phenomenal music, memorable characters, and great storytelling, Jersey Boys follows the fascinating evolution of four blue-collar kids who became one of the greatest successes in pop music history.

Grammy-nominated and internationally acclaimed Liverpool Legends will be at The Strand in March. Liverpool Legends are four talented musicians and actors, handpicked by Louise Harrison.

An Evening with Judy Collins is coming to the Jefferson Performing Arts Center this month. Learn more about the upcoming performance and find out how to get tickets here!

The Saenger Theatre in New Orleans has announced its 2025/26 Broadway season! The season will kick off on October 7 with Kimberly Akimbo before continuing through June 2026.

From coast-to-coast, Ballets with a Twist is turning heads and setting trends with its signature production, Cocktail Hour: The Show. Watch as “Bloody Mary,” “Manhattan,” mocktail “Roy Rogers,” and more spring off the menu and onto the stage in a series of dazzling vignettes.

Jefferson Performing Arts will continue its 47th season with two productions onstage in February. Learn more about True West and Murder on the Nile here!

Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré has revealed their spring 2025 education program workshops! Learn more about upcoming programming, and see how to take part!

Winners have been announced for the 2024 BroadwayWorld New Orleans Awards! The 2024 Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

Edward Albee’s WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? is a raw, relentless, and deeply unsettling theatrical titan. Since its debut in 1962, it has held its place as one of the most harrowing portraits of marital discontent and social decay in American theatre. The play dares its audience to sit through nearly three hours of verbal warfare and emotional manipulation as it unflinchingly examines middle-class disillusionment. And audiences keep coming back for more.

The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts has announced that applications for the 2025-2026 school year are now open! Aspiring artists in grades 8–11  are encouraged to apply to one of the nation's leading arts conservatories. 

In keeping with the spirit of Carnival season, the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival will host a ball at the Hotel Peter & Paul. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

This is the last chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld New Orleans Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Grammy-nominated and internationally acclaimed Liverpool Legends will be at Jefferson Performing Arts Center in February. Learn more about the upcoming performance here!