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Saturday, November 21, 2009
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THE ARTS
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They’ll leave a light on for you.
And if you choose to investigate the warm illumination cast by the Mid City Merchant Association’s White Light Night, you’ll find plenty of art, music, food and good conversation.
This is the story of The Story, which makes its Southern University premiere on Wednesday, Nov. 18. Aileen Hendricks learned of The Story from a friend, who told her it was, well, a good story. Hendricks is a theater professor in Southern’s Visual and Performing Arts Department. Welcome back, Andy. Last time you occupied this prized spot in the LSU Museum of Art, you showed up in the guise of Marilyn. Yes, it was the crème de la crème of your Marilyn Monroe silkscreens, her hair golden against a hot pink background. Several events are planned this week in the LSU School of Music: The LSU Schola will perform a concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in University United Methodist Church, 3350 Dalrymple Drive. Brian Kittridge is the conductor. The reclusive Pynchon, author of V., Gravity’s Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, Mason & Dixon, Vineland and others, is practically a cult figure. Whenever he publishes a book, and he does so every few years, his legion of fans make it an instant best-seller. ARSENIC AND OLD LACE: 2 p.m., Baton Rouge Little Theater, 7155 Florida Blvd. $22. (225) 924-6496 or http://www.brlt.org. She pauses for a moment, contemplates. “What part of the show do you think is everyone’s favorite?” she asks. But shouldn’t she already know? Doug Varone and Dancers are winners of 11 New York Dance and Performance Awards, and they’re coming to the Claude L. Shaver Theatre in the LSU Music & Dramatic Arts Building as a part of the 2009-2010 Performance Arts Series. Most of the time, Southeastern Louisiana University professor Samuel C. Hyde Jr. is busy teaching, writing or conducting research. Lately, he’s been busy collecting awards. The fit is natural. The subject here isn’t lyrics but those poems written without music in mind. Or is that possible? Because there’s something musical about poetry. Then again, there’s something poetic about music. The Cangelosi Dance Project will present its fifth annual Christmas performance at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, in the Manship Theatre in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. Staging a play that the public knows as a beloved old movie is a risk-reward proposition. The popularity of the movie can sell tickets, but it sets a high standard to live up to. This time for Baton Rouge Little Theater, no worries. “Arsenic and Old Lace” by Joseph Kesselring is all about the “old lace” — and Stephanie Levert and Kathy Sevin deliver. If Marcial Romos still lived in Cuba, he would probably be in jail. Think about it. Jail at 16 just for being an artist. Just for believing in freedom of expression. “I feel that is most important for an artist to have freedom of expression,” Romos said. That’s not to be found in Cuba. Not for an artist. Not for Romos. But Sohale Mehrmanesh has a different concern. Your money is no good here. Opera Louisiane won’t even accept gingerbread for its tickets, though there will be plenty when Hansel and Gretel discovers the witch’s house. Hey, without gingerbread, there would be no story. The LSU Department of Theatre will perform Lanford Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Talley’s Folly, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, Nov. 10-13, and 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, in the Reilly Theatre on Tower Drive on the LSU campus. Sometimes, it’s difficult to decide where to begin. Does he start out talking about the play? Or does the newly renovated Burke Hawthorne Hall Theatre take precedence? The sixth and final concert of the fall 2009 Sunday in the Park free concert series will feature Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue from noon to 3 p.m. today, Nov. 8, at Lafayette Park across from the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. Talk to Anna Christian after the concert, and she doesn’t seem like the conductor type. She’s quiet, she’s a little bit shy and she’s only 8 years old. But she didn’t let any of this stop her from taking the podium when Linda R. Moorhouse asked for volunteers. The third annual UncommonThread Wearable Art Show will accept entries until 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13. Entry forms can be found by visiting http://www.culturecandy.org. The Louisiana Youth Orchestra’s first performance for the 2009-2010 season will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, in the Magnolia Performing Arts Pavilion at Baton Rouge Community College. The concert is free. Emotions are sometimes so intense that cast members are exhausted at the end of rehearsal. You wouldn’t think that would be the case. They are actors, after all, stepping into someone else’s story. Someone else’s life. Leaving it behind should be easy, right? People didn’t talk about things like this in 1939. Well, that’s not entirely fair. As long as there are people, there will be gossip, and you can bet people talked about this kind of stuff. Just not openly. Not in a play. The Baton Rouge Arts Market will celebrate its 11th anniversary 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, Nov. 7, at Fifth and Main streets. The name has changed, but the event is still the same. In the past, Baton Rouge Center for Contemporary Art’s annual live and silent auctions took on a theme. The LSU School of Art is collaborating with the Capital Area United Way, LSU’s Readers and Writers series and the LSU Student Union Art Gallery Committee in a series of exhibition events dealing with Invisible Populations Friday, Nov. 6-Dec. 4. Nov. 1-7, 2009 Maybe she was too busy putting the show together to stop and think about it. Drum Dances isn’t premiering only in Baton Rouge. No, the Saturday, Nov. 7, opening of this show will mark its world premiere. You’ve heard Frank Sinatra sing it. You’ve heard Judy Collins sing it. Even Kenny Rogers has made a recording of it. But now you’ll get a chance to hear Stephen Sondheim’s showstopper “Send in the Clowns” in its original setting. Somebody’s going to ask the question, so may as well get it out of the way. Haven’t they done this already? You know, Macbeth. Didn’t Baton Rouge Community College perform William Shakespeare’s classic last fall? The Cangelosi Dance Project Company, led by artistic director Kris Cangelosi, will present a 40-minute choreographic work Glass Ceiling at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, on Baton Rouge Little Theatre’s Second Stage, 7155 Florida Blvd. Tickets are on sale for Chinese Culture Night, set for 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at Independence Park Theatre, 7800 Independence Blvd. Tickets are on sale for Ascension Community Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, set for Thursdays through Sundays, Nov. 5-8 and Nov. 12-14, at the Pasqua Theatre, 823 Felicity St., Gonzales. The play will be directed by Heidi Alford Frederic. Thursday through Saturday shows are at 7 p.m. Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. They call her … well, they don’t really call her anything. She’s just a child, the perfect child. Menacing, in fact, in her perfection. “Well, she’s not evil from my point of view,” Colleen King said. You’d think that the prospect of dancing in Louisiana wouldn’t seem so exciting after performing on the Great Wall of China. Or even in the Kremlin in Moscow. “We had to have our green cards with us at all times in the Kremlin,” Marty Dowds said. A dramatic display of bird art, Mostly Birds, at Caffery Gallery grabs and holds the attention of fascinated viewers. OPELOUSAS — They’re music teachers, they’re unmarried, and all four spinster sisters — who happen to be witches — are purt-near nutty in “Bats in the Belfry,” a comedy-mystery-fantasy play appearing at the Opelousas Little Theater at 7 p.m. today. |
