Production History
* Indicates World Premiere
2006-07
Callie’s Tally*
by Betsy Howie
Yuletide*
by Jim Fitzmorris
The Sunken Living Room*
by David Caudle
Rising Water*
by John Biguenet
Relativity
by Cassandra Medley
2005-06
Closed from August 2005 – April 2006 due to Hurricane Katrina.
On Tour
The Sunken Living Room*
by David Caudle
Co-produced with New Theatre in Coral Gables, FL
Kimberly Akimbo
by David Lindsay-Abaire
2004-2005
The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?
By Edward Albee
Intimate Apparel
By Lynn Nottage
Southern New Plays Festival
Featured Production
The Vulgar Soul*
By John Biguenet
Staged Readings
The Book of the Golem by Dalt Wonk
The Return to Zion by Mark Leib
Good Kind Spirits by R.J. Tsarov
Treasure Island, FL by Bixby Elliot
Exposed by Beth Henley
The Sunken Living Room by David Caudle
Brush the Summer By by Hal Corley
A Buffet by Brian Sands
Co-Produced with Evangeline Oaks Entertainment
Okra
By Anne Galjour
2003-2004
The House of Plunder*
By Jim Fitzmorris
Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge
By Christopher Durang
Yellowman
By Dael Orlandersmith
Southern New Plays Festival
Featured Production
Cloning Judson*
By J. Daniel Stanley
Staged Readings
Blind Mouth Singing by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
Get Flanagan by Sean Patterson
Daughters of Genius by Evan Smith
Edible Shoes by Jonathan Yukich
Benevolent Street by Emily Brown
The Death of a Cat by C. Denby Swanson
The Vulgar Soul by John Biguenet
Vo-Du MacBeth by Lenwood Sloan
2002-2003
Spinning Into Buttter
By Rebecca Gilman
The Santaland Diaries
By David Sedaris
Adapted by Joe Mantello
In Walks Ed
By Keith Glover
Bat Boy: The Musical
Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming
Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe
Southern New Plays Festival 2003
Featured Productions
Co-Produced with American Dog theater
Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood*
Written by Barret O'Brien
Co-Produced with Red Noses theater
The Visitation*
By Jim Fitzmorris
Staged Readings
Things I’ve Done by R.J. Tsarov
Dark Paradise: The Legend of the Five-Pointed Star by Keith Glover
Cloning Judson by J. Daniel Stanley
The Ruby Sunrise by Rinne Groff
Eighty-Six by Javon Johnson
Red Death by Lisa D’Amour
2001-2002
A Lesson Before Dying
By Romulus Linney, adapted from the novel by Ernest Gaines
Licking the Bowl*
By Barret O'Brien
Earl Long in Purgatory*
By Jason Berry
Dinah Was
By Oliver Goldstick
W;t
By Margaret Edson
2000-2001
A Little Grain of Sand
By Christophe Allwright
Degas in New Orleans*
By Rosary O'Neill
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
By Lanie Robertson
Cherries Jubilee
By Lynn Goldman, Harriet Nelson, Marcy Nathan and Joyce Pulizer
1999-2000
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
By Emily Mann
November 5 – 14, 1999
Scrooge And Nem
By Ricky Graham and David Cuthbert
December 2 – 19, 1999
Invasion of Beauty*
By Rosary O'Neill
March 17 – April 2, 2000
Full Gallop
By Mark Hampton & Mary Louise Wilson
April 28 – May 7, 2000
ON TOUR :
Budapest, Hungary Uncle Victor (formerly Invasion of Beauty)
Summer 2000 By Rosary O’Neill
1998-1999
Love Letters
By A. R. Gurney
September 18 – 27, 1998
Co-Production with The Irish Cultural Society of New Orleans
and Beefield Productions
The Playboy of the Western World
By J. M. Synge
October 23 – November 8, 1998
A Woman of Property*
By Rosary H. O'Neill
February 26 – March 7, 1999
Death of a Salesman
By Arthur Miller
April 9 – 25, 1999
ON TOUR:
Tbilisi, Georgia A Woman of Property
October 1999 By Rosary O’Neill
1997-1998 Season
Co-Produced by Michael Arata Productions & Dog and Pony theater Co.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
September 12 – October 5, 1997
Flyin' West
Pearl Cleage
Nov. 14 – 23, 1997
Noel and Gertie
Devised by Sheridan Morley from words and music of Noel Coward
Jan. 9 – Jan. 25, 1998
Exposition Boulevard*
Rosary H. O'Neill
March 27 – April 5, 1998
1996-1997 Season
Always …Patsy Cline
By Ted Swindley
Sept. 20 – Oct. 6, 1996
Co-Production with True Brew theater
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens, Adapted by Ricky Graham
November 22 – Dec. 26, 1996
Lillian
By William Luce
February 21 – March 2, 1997
A Louisiana Gentleman*
By Rosary H. O'Neill
April 11 – 27, 1997
1995-1996 Season
Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write?
By John Maxwell
December 2 – December 10, 1995
Four Dogs and a Bone
By John Patrick Shanley
January 20 – February 4, 1996
Little Foxes
By Lillian Hellman
March 9 – 24, 1996
Wishing Aces*
By Rosary H. O'Neill
May 4 – 17, 1996
ON TOUR:
theater du Marais – Paris, France Wishing Aces
June 9-10, 1996 By Rosary O’Neill
Bonn , Germany
June, 1996
1994-1995 Season
Period of Adjustment
By Tennessee Williams
March 4 – 27, 1994
Hearts*
By Rosary O’Neill
June 1994
Co-Production
Voices in the Dark
By Sharon Bridgforth
July 9 – 31, 1994
The Member of the Wedding
By Carson McCullers
September 17 – October 2, 1994
Three Hotels
By Jon Robin Baitz
November 12 – 20, 1994
The Rose Tattoo
By Tennessee Williams
March 11 – 26, 1995
Black Jack: The Thief of Possession*
By Rosary H. O'Neill
May 27 – June 11, 1995
1993
The Miracle Worker
By William Gibson
March 12 – April 4, 1993
Franco-Louisiana New Play Festival
May 28 – June 6
Featured Production:
Solitaire*
By Rosary H. O'Neill
Staged Readings :
Murder in Mind
By Xavier Durringer
Three By K: On the Hill of Simiez ; Sunset; and Father New Orleans
By Robert Kornfeld
ON TOUR:
American Center & Sorbonne
in Paris, France Solitaire
November 26-27, 1993 By Rosary O’Neill
A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry
September __ - October 3, 1993
1992- First Season in Canal Place
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
By Tennessee Williams
March 20 – 29, 1992
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, dramatized by Christopher Sergal
May 1 – 10, 1992
3rd Annual Southern New Plays Festival
July 10 – 26, 1992
Bill One :
Wishing Aces by Rosary O’Neill
Bill Two :
The Man Who Would Be Henry Miller , and the Next Marilyn Monroe by Molly Shepard
Back to Bogalusa by Marion Killinger
Bill Three :
Can’t Dance, Too Late to Plow by Larry Gray
Bill Four: Potpourri Evening
Trilogy of One Acts: Passage in Purgatory by Robert Kornfeld; Red Road by Shirley Sergent; Evening Education by Jeff Elwell
Women’s Collage: The White Gardenia by Terese Bland Bueker; Three Women by Barry Ivker; Coffee by Jackie Bullock
Monologue Duet: The Beatification of Simone by Paul Currant; With Don and Phil to the End of the World by Emily Newland
New Orleans Duet: Child Don’t He Look Good by Barbara Trevigne; Bus Ride by Phyllis McMillon Clemons; The Day the Muzak Died by Kenneth J. Weatherup
Edna Earle
Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart, adapted by Jane Reid - Petty
Sept. 25 – Oct 4, 1992
Belle of Amherst
By William Luce
1991
The Square Root of Wonderful
By Carson McCullars
February 15 – March 3, 1991
An Evening with Tennessee Williams:
27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Lady of LarkspurLotion
By Tennessee Williams
March 27 – April 7, 1991
Southern New Plays Festival
June 7 – 16, 1991
Bill One:
Big Hands by Jackie Bullock
Bye Bye Blues by David Cuthbert
Father Prize Poland China by Sherley Sergent
Safe at Last by Barry Ivker
The Mask of Hiroshima by Ernest Ferlita, S.J.
Bill Two:
Violent Images by Jeffery Scott Elwell
Joy Ride by Shirley Sergent
The Visitor by Dan Godoy
Death by Dumpling by Terese Bland Bueker
Only His Knees by Edward L. Betz, Jr.
They Call Me Rainbow by Dorothy Henriques
Bracelets by Maya Levy
Bill Three:
Pas De Deux by Barry Ivker
The Death of Superman by Michael D. Chafetz
The Computerized Spiritual Exercises of a Jesuit by Dan Godoy
Nadezhda by Robert Kornfeld
Mr. Williams and Mrs. Wood by Max Wilk
To Fourposter
By Jan de Hartog
September 20 – October 6, 1991
ON TOUR:
Moscow , Russia An Evening with Tennessee Williams:
Nov. 2001 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Lady of LarkspurLotion
By Tennessee Williams
1990
Suddenly Last Summer
By Tennessee Williams
March 24 – April 8
Master Harold and the Boys
By Athol Fugard
April 21 – May 6, 1990
Talley's Folly
By Lanford Wilson
May 12 – 27, 1990
Southern New Plays Festival
June 15 – 17, 1990
”A Showcase of scripts by local playwrights and a lecture
by William Talbot of Samuel French”:
Bill One :
Body Indemnity by Mikko Macchione and Jay Malarcher
Five Aural Images by Shirley Sergent
The Death of Superman by Michael D. Chafetz
The Last Resort by Rosemary Farmer Corry
Bill Two :
Caviar by Jackie Bullock
Acting Out by Robert Kornfeld
The Career Planner by Dan Godoy
Horror’s Passage by Mikko Macchione
Rats by James Edward Luczak
Private Lives
By Noel Coward
1989 - FIRST SEASON AT BOARD OF TRADE
…And Further Mo'.
By Vernel Bagneris
April 12 – May 7, 1989
Crimes of the Heart
By Beth Henley
May 13 – June 4, 1989
The Night of the Iguana
By Tennessee Williams
June 10 – 25, 1989
The Night Before Christmas 1989
By Ken Mentel
1988
P. V T. Wars & Laundry and Bourbon
By James McLure
The Glass Menagerie
By Tennessee Williams
The Importance of Being Earnest
(adapted to 1859 New Orleans)
By Oscar Wilde
1987
Toys in the Attic
By Lillian Hellman
Didn't Mean Goodbye
By Sheila Bosworth
Spring Dance
By Horton Foote
As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
