Dance--Performance

Lafayette Ballet Theatre (with international principal guest artists) presents the enchanting story ballet, Cinderella. Cinderella is a full-length classical ballet in three acts, with the original music of Sergei Prokofiev.

There is only one performance scheduled: Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 7:00 pm, at the Heymann Performing Arts Center.

Students can receive a 50% discount on all balcony level tickets. Contact the Heymann Center box office for ticket prices or more information



Pictured is Noelani Pantastico, the guest artist performing the leading role in this weekend's performance of Cinderella. She is currently a principal dancer with the Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Theatre--Performance

Tickets are on sale for the drama Not My Child, which will be performed by Lynda's Drama Company at the Rice Theater (328 N. Parkerson Ave.) in Crowley. This funny, yet heartfelt, real life play unwraps the story of three teen girls fighting a life of drugs, sex and adult responsibility. The show was written and directed by Lynda Carmouche.

The show opens on Friday, April 11th at 7:30 pm. It runs through Sunday, April 13th.

For show times,ticket prices and availability or more information, call (337) 593-8642.

Theatre--Performance

Herman Fusilier has an article about the Theatre League of Louisiana's presentation of Chicago in the March 31st edition of the Daily Advertiser.

Dance--Performance

The UL-Lafayette Department of Performing Arts presents An Evening Of Dance. This performance showcases student choreographers' work with a broad range of genre. The palette is loaded, brush in hand, and imagination lit! The concert consists of nine pieces choreographed by Taryn Arnaud, Matthew Couvillion, Lacey LeBlanc, Meagan Mod, Caroline Randall, Lauren Scharfenstein, Simone Sonnier, Kelly Womack and Teri Wyble. Most of these choreographers will be graduating in May and this will be their final dance project at ULL. Pieces vary from the fun and silly to a Broadway-style Charleston to modern serious dance. There should be something to please every member of the audience.

Performances will be in Angelle Hall at 7:30 on Thursday (April 3rd), Friday (April 4th) and Saturday (April 5th). There will also be a Sunday matinee at 2:00 on April 6th. Tickets are free to ULL students and faculty (with ID); $5 for alumni, students and seniors and $10.00 general admission.

Theatre--Performance

Firelight Children's Theatre opens their production of Aladdin on April 4th at Cite Des Arts. The show runs two weekends: April 4th (Friday), 5(Saturday), 6th (Sunday), and 11th (Friday), 12th (Saturday), 13th (Sunday). Show times are 7:00 pm on all dates with matinees on both Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00 pm. For information and tickets, please call Cité Des Arts at 337-291-1122.

Theatre--Performance

Omni Artiste Productions continues its Spring 2008 season with Searching for Eden: Adam and Eve. The play is a modern twist on Mark Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve.

More than a hundred years after Mark Twain wrote his own short stories about Adam and Eve, James Still combines those stories for Act One of Searching for Eden: Adam and Eve, and then imagines Adam and Eve in the present day for Act Two to create this completely original and contemporary play about the world's first love story. Twain's Garden of Eden bursts with wit, laughter and the lyrical poignancy of the first love and the first loss. At its heart, Searching for Eden: Adam and Eve is about the pleasures and terrors of knowing one person—and being known by that person—for a long, long time.

Believing that lives are transformed through theatre, Omni Artiste Productions of Lafayette, under the direction of Dr. Alex C. Marshall, brings a unique vision to the performance of informative, entertaining, and original plays. Omni Artiste Productions believes that theatre inspires individuals toward developing a deeper appreciation of the world in which they live.

Public performances for Searching for Eden: Adam and Eve are scheduled for April 11th and 12th at 7:30 p.m., April 13th at 3 p.m., April 18th and 19th at 7:30 p.m. and April 20th at 3:00 p.m. on the Second Stage at Cite’ des Arts. Omni Artiste Productions welcomes men, women, and children of all ages. Each attendee can expect to leave renewed.

Cite’ des Arts is located in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana at 109 Vine Street. Ticket prices are $15.00 for adults and $10.00 for students and Seniors. A $5.00 discount per ticket applies when tickets are purchased in advance. For more information and group discounts, call Cite’ des Arts at 337-291-1122.

Theatre--Review

Ray Blum reviews The Producers, the most recent of the Theatre League of Louisiana's presentations, in the March 28th edition of the Daily Advertiser.

Theatre--Workshops

The Summer Youth Shakespeare Ensemble announces registration for its sixth season. The 15-day intensive performing arts camp runs July 6-20, 2008 with performances of The Tempest on July 25, 26, & 27, 2008; all activities take place at the Acadiana Center for the Arts.

Students ages 10-senior in high school study all aspects of the performing arts with professional faculty members and an extensive support staff. Hector LaSala teaches set design; Cissy Whipp, dance & choreography; Danny Devillier, music; Laura Sellers, costume design; and Amy Waguespack, acting and directing. Rounding out the staff: Hannah Briggs, Ricky Briggs, Lian Cheramie, Harmony Decker, Sam Dooley, Kara Guarisco, Paige Krause, Brooke LeBleu, Megan LeBleu, and Mary Pierce.

Each day begins with an hour long company class followed by small group workshops where students study in age and experience based groups. Afternoons are spent applying what they have learned in their workshops to their full production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Tuition for the camp is $500; some partial scholarships are available. For more
information or to register by mail call (337) 739-4273 or (337) 380-4021. For those wanting to tour the facility and meet some of the staff members, two orientations are being offered. The first will take place on Wednesday April 2, 2008 from 6-7 PM, the second on Saturday April 5, 2008 from 2-3 PM at the Acadiana Center for the Arts.

Theatre--Performance

The Evangeline Players are in final rehearsals for To Kill a Mockingbird, which opens on Friday, April 4th at 7:30 pm. These are photographs from the rehearsals.

Jem (Travis Guillory)


Scout (Anne Caffery)


Atticus (Vincent Barras)


Scout, Dill, Jem and Atticus

Dance--Performance

TheUL-Lafayette Department of Performing Arts presents An Evening Of Dance. These are adjudicated performances choreographed by dance students at ULL. Performances will be presented in Angelle Hall at 7:30 on Thursday (April 3rd), Friday (April 4th) and Saturday (April 5th). There will also be a Sunday matinee at 2:00 on April 6. Tickets are free to ULL students and faculty; $5 for alumni, students and seniors and $10.00 general admission.

The concert consists of nine pieces choreographed by Taryn Arnaud, Matthew Couvillion, Lacey LeBlanc, Meagan Mod, Caroline Randall, Lauren Scharfenstein, Simone Sonnier, Kelly Womack and Teri Wyble. Most of these choreographers will be graduating in May and this will be their final dance project at ULL.

Pieces vary from the fun and silly to a Broadway-style Charleston to modern serious dance. There should be something to please every member of the audience.

Faculty advisers are Kenneth Jenkins and Diego Carrasco.

Theatre--Performance

The Theatre League of Louisiana winds up its 2007-2008 Broadway Series with the razzle dazzle musical Chicago. Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical (book is by Ebb and Bob Fosse) set in prohibition era Chicago. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, and the concept of the "celebrity criminal." The musical is based on a 1926 play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes she had reported on.

The original 1975 Broadway production ran for a total of 936 performances. Bob Fosse choreographed the original production, and his style is strongly identified with the show. Chicago's 1996 Broadway revival holds the record for the longest-running musical revival on Broadway (not counting the revue Oh! Calcutta!) and, as of March 2, 2008, it has played for more than 4,684 performances. The revival was followed by a production on London's West End and several tours and international productions. An Academy Award-winning film version of the musical was released in 2002.

This musical contains mature subject matter.

The performance begins at 7:30 pm. For ticket information, contact the Heymann Box Office at 291-5555.

Theatre--Article

The Daily World has an article about the upcoming production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown by the Opelousas Little Theatre in the Monday, March 24th edition.

Theatre--Auditions

Cité des Arts will hold open auditions for its production of Proof, David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play on Sunday, April 6th, from 3-6 pm, Monday, April 7th, from 6-8 pm, and Wednesday, April 9th, from 6-8. Prepared monologues are not required. The parts being cast are:
Catherine – 25
Robert – 50s
Hal – 28
Claire – 29
The production runs from May 22nd through June 7th , 2008.

Character ages are only approximate. Actors should appear to be within
that broad age range. If audition times are not convenient, or for additional information, call Cité des Arts

WHAT: Audition for Proof
WHEN: April 6, 4:00pm – 6:00 pm; April 7, 6-8pm April 9, 6-8pm.
WHERE: Cité des Arts, 109 Vine Street, downtown Lafayette
CONTACT: Cité des Arts at 337- 291-1122

Theatre--Performance

To Kill a Mockingbird, the upcoming production of the Evangeline Players in St. Martinville, was adapted by playwright Christopher Sergel from the novel by Harper Lee. Set in a small Alabama town in the Great Depression, the story concerns the trial of a young black man falsely accused of rape. The theme, however, is the loss of innocence (the mockingbird of the title).

Young Jean Louise Finch (Scout) and her brother, Jem, are being raised by their widowed father, Atticus and their black housekeeper, Calpurnia. The children find Atticus, who is older than the parents of their schoolmates and who seems to do little except read and work in an office, boring and a bit of an embarrassment. Their neighbors are a recluse named Boo Radley and his brother who takes care of him, Miss Maudie who is a sort of mother figure for them and Mrs. Dubose who is the Witch of the West as far they are concerned.

Scout's quiet life begins to change when she meets an odd young boy her own age named Dill (modeled on Truman Capote) who takes refuge from his turbulent life with his mother by staying first with his Aunt and then with Scout and Jem. Dill's life has matured him beyond his years and he watches sadly as Scout and Jem begin to learn the hard lessons of reality and the presence of Evil in their small town Eden.

This evil is represented by Bob Ewell, a white trash handyman who abuses his children. His daughter, Mayella, accuses Tom Robinson, a black handyman, of rape. Although he knows it is a hopeless endeavor, Atticus agrees to defend Tom, a decision which creates a great deal of stress for him and his family. Atticus, however, feels a moral duty to pursue Justice even she flees before him. The following events, beginning with the trial of Tom, mark a time of pain and change for the town and for Scout.

This production is produced by The Evangeline Players at the Duchamp Opera House and is under the direction of Mac Stearns, assisted by Steven Smith, Jr. It will open on Friday, April 4th and run through Sunday, April 20th. Friday and Saturday performances will begin at 7:30 pm and Sunday matinees will start at 2 pm. For tickets, call (337) 394-5574.

Theatre--Review

Ray Blum of the Daily Advertiser reviews IPAL's Little Shop of Horrors in the March 21st edition.

The Abbey Players are pleased to announce auditions for their upcoming Spring production,Picasso at the Lapin Agile, by Steve Martin.

The show will run mid-May thru June, 2008 and will be directed by Jerrod Arabie and assistant-directed by Pamela Broussard.

Open auditions will be held at the Abbey Players Theatre, 200 South State Street, Abbeville, LA. on the followng dates and times:

Sat. March 22, 1pm -3pm.
Sun. March 23, 1pm -3pm.

Various roles for men ages 18 - 60. Roles for women ages 18 - 40.

Theatre--Performance

Theatre--Performance

The Evangeline Players will present To Kill a Mockingbird beginning on Friday, April 4th and running through Sunday, April 20th.

Dance--Performance

Lafayette Ballet Theatre, featuring international principal guest artists, presents the enchanting Cinderella, a full-length classical ballet in three acts, with the original music of Sergei Prokofiev on Saturday, April 5th at 7:00 pm. This will be the only performance, and will take place at the Heymann Performing Arts Center. For tickets or more information, contact the Heymann Center or Ticketmaster.

Theatre--Performance

Firelight Children's Theatre, in conjunction with Cite Des Arts, will present Aladdin (an adaptation of the Disney Company's Aladdin) beginning April 4 through the 13th at 7:30 pm. For more information, call Cite Des Arts at 291-1122.