Ovalhouse Announces its Demolition Season 2019
For the final season in their Kennington home, Ovalhouse's Demolition Party Season will see collaboration between engineers and companies to allow artists dismantle parts of the building as part of their creative process. After 80 years as a community venue and 55 years as a professional theatre, Ovalhouse will relocate to Brixton, opening a brand new, purpose-built theatre in spring 2021.
New Museum to Publish TRAP DOOR: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
This fall, the New Museum will publish Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton. Trap Door, to be released November 2017, is the third installment in the New Museum's Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture series, following the publication of Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century (2015), edited by Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter, and Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good (2016), edited by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon.
Jefferson Performing Arts Society to Present PERFECT WEDDING, 3/7-23
Jefferson Performing Arts Society presents their final mainstage performance of their 36th season, PERFECT WEDDING by Robin Hawdon. The production is directed by Phillip A. Bensen and features Jacob McManus, Hope Leigh, Erich Abbott, Claire Speers, Lindsey M, Page, and Margeaux Fanning.
JPAS to Present PERFECT WEDDING, 3/7-4/6
The Jefferson Performing Arts Society along with Humana will be presenting the lively comedy, Perfect Wedding by Robin Hawdon, March 7th through April 6th. The production will be held at Teatro Wego! (177 Sala Ave.) in Westwego, La from March 7-23. Then it will be traveling to Covington for performances March 28-30 at the Furhmann Auditorium (317. N Jefferson Ave.) On April 4-6 the show will tour to the Northshore Harbor Center (100 Harbor Center Blvd.) in Slidell. Performances will be held Friday(s) and Saturday(s) at 7:30pm and Sunday(s) at 3:00pm.
BWW Reviews: Eklektix Theatre's MACBETH Shows Strong Potential But Falls a Bit Short
More often than not, theatres produce Shakespeare with a unique, modernizing spin. Keeping in this vein, Eklektix Theatre's Artistic Director Bryan-Keyth Wilson has adapted William Shakespeare's tragedy MACBETH, setting it in a post apocalyptic urban wasteland in the year 3013. Likewise, Bryan-Keyth Wilson, in adapting the play, has made some cuts to the script, which ensure that William Shakespeare's script about betrayal, murder, vanity, paranoia, and madness moves at a break-neck pace.