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Rebecca Spencer, who premiered the role of Madame Giry to critical acclaim in Phantom-The Las Vegas Spectacular, will don the black dress again when she joins the world tour of The Phantom of the Opera this month in Manila and early 2013 in Seoul, South Korea.

Southern Rep Theatre will announce its 2012-13 Season at the Contemporary Arts Center's Spun Cafe 'Happy Hour' Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 5-7pm.

Swine Palace celebrates the Louisiana Bicentennial with a season of plays that explore the culture and history of Lousiana.

East Jefferson General Hospital Broadway in New Orleans today announced the premiere New Orleans engagement of Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of Les Miserables, playing at the Mahalia Jackson Theater, October 30 - November 4, 2012.

Southern Rep continues its 'New Plays New Orleans' mission with 3X3: THE ONE ACTS by Jared Gore, Brian Sands and Paul Werner, the first production in a year-long cycle presenting works by eleven senior members of 6X6 Play Slam.

Local arts lovers are invited to attend a celebration to kick off the 2012-2013 cultural season.

Southern Rep Theatre will be hosting WORK HARD! PLAY HARD!, a Fundraiser and silent auction to help fund '3x3,' an inaugural new playwrights' series which will feature one-act original works by local writers.

This 1960s inspired musical tells the tale of Seymour (Alexander Sibley), an assistant to Mr.

The Jefferson Performing Arts Society will present the July sessions of it's Summer Youth Musical Theatre Intensives on the East and West banks at the Jefferson Performing Arts Center in Metairie and the Westwego Performing Arts Theatre.

Southern Rep Theatre will be hosting WORK HARD! PLAY HARD!, a Fundraiser and silent auction to help fund '3x3,' an inaugural new playwrights' series which will feature one-act original works by local writers.

Maestro Dennis Assaf and the Jefferson Performing Arts Society based in Metairie, Louisiana was recently honored with an award from the American Association of Community Theatre (AACT).

The best way to describe ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD is to compare it to Disney's The Lion King 1 ½.

'Travel back in time -- before the internet, before television, before Americans knew words like OMG and LOL and Kardashian.

Travel back in time -- before the internet, before television, before Americans knew words like OMG and LOL and Kardashian.

'Travel back in time -- before the internet, before television, before Americans knew words like OMG and LOL and Kardashian.

Travel back in time -- before the internet, before television, before Americans knew words like OMG and LOL and Kardashian.

Sunday, June 17 was The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival's first matinee performance of William Shakespeare's HAMLET, directed by Clare Moncrief.

Loyola University New Orleans alumnus and noted jazz pianist Matt Lemmler '90 will return to campus to perform a special concert with the New Orleans Jazz Revival Ensemble, featuring guitarist Steve Masakowski, bassist James Singleton and drummer Geoff Clapp, on Saturday, June 23 to at 7 p.

Theatre in New Orleans this summer offers selections that cater to the Shakespeare lover as well as musicals that the whole family can enjoy.

The Jefferson Performing Arts Society (JPAS) will kick-off another summer of Youth Musical Theatre on the East and West banks at the Jefferson Performing Arts Center in Metairie and the Westwego Performing Arts Theatre with it's June productions.

Travel back in time -- before the internet, before television, before Americans knew words like OMG and LOL and Kardashian.

Participants of the NORDC/NOBA Center For Dance Fitness/Dance Program for senior citizens have been selected to perform in the Opening Celebration of the Senior Theatre USA 2012 Festival & Conference on Sunday, June 3 at Harrah's Casino Main Theatre.

The New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA), Chalmette Refining, L.

Since 2005, New Orleans, has seen a new birth of social action-centered performance.

This May, Southern Rep presents two shows at the Contemporary Arts Center: the final production of their 2011-2012 25th Anniversary Season, SHIRLEY VALENTINE by Willy Russell, a one-woman play starring Ricky Graham; and ACADEMY SRT Children's Theatre Series THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, story by Margery Wil