Past Productions
1987 - 2018
Southern Rep Theatre
MAINSTAGE
FUN HOME
Book by Lisa D’Amour / Music by Jeanine Tesori
Based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel
Directed by Blake Coheley
A co-production with NOCCA Stage Company
MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY
by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
Directed by Aimée Hayes and Jeffrey Gunshol
A TENNESSEE WILLIAMS DOUBLE BILL
Presented in partnership with the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
AND TELL SAD STORIES OF THE DEATH OF QUEENS
directed by Ricky Graham
THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY directed by Austin Pendleton, in association with Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company
ECLIPSED
by Danai Gurira
Directed by Malika Oyetimein
ALL THE WAY
by Robert Schenkkan
Directed by Aimée Hayes
MAINSTAGE
STAGE KISS
by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Jason Kirkpatrick
World Premiere
SONG OF A MAN COMING THROUGH
by Joe Morris Doss and Andrew Doss
Directed by Aimée Hayes
ORPHEUS DESCENDING
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Jef Hall-Flavin
Presented in partnership with the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival in collaboration with Beth Bartley/Irene Glezos Productions
LAGNIAPPE STAGE
Charles Dickens’
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Adapted by Doris Baizley
Directed by Jen Davis
MAINSTAGE
33 Variations
By Moisés Kaufman
Directed by Michael Cooper
Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen
Adapted by Jon Jory
Co-Directed by Jeffrey Gunshol and Aimée Hayes
National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
THE TOTALITARIANS
By Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Directed by Kenneth Prestininzi
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Phillip Karnell
MAINSTAGE
God of Carnage
By Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
Directed by Ricky Graham
Red
By John Logan
Directed by Aimée Hayes
A Streetcar Named Desire
By Tennessee Williams
Director Jason Kirkpatrick
CITY SERIES
SHIRLEY VALENTINE
By Willy Russell
Directed by Marieke Gaboury
WEDNESDAY NIGHT SERIEs:
DEBAUCHERY!
By Pat Bourgeois
6X6: 6 TEN MINUTE PLAYS BY 6 PLAYWRIGHTS
By Southern Rep’s 6×6 playwrights.
THE NEW PLAY BACCANAL:
MARILYN/GOD WILL MARILYN MONROE
GET INTO HEAVEN?
By Rosary O?fNeill
PANEL: Mash It Up?
Devised Work, Musical Theatre, Straight Plays
GEMMA & JACK
By Southern Rep?fs 6×6 Playwrights
YOU FOR ME FOR YOU
By Mia Chung (Ruby Prize Finalist)
YO NOLA Students present:
WORKS IN PROGRESS
TAKARAZUKA!!!
By Susan Soon He Stanton (Ruby Prize Finalist)
PANEL: New Orleans Masters
A conversation with local Master Performers
Ricky Graham, Janet Shea and Carol Sutton.
MERIT
By Lenelle Moïse (Ruby Prize Winner)
HEAL ME TELEVISION
By Martha Wollner
ALTERNA-ENDING PLAY SLAM
Theatre makers submit and perform twist endings to familiar works. Hilarious fun!
LOUISIANA CYCLE:
200 years of Voices Worth Celebrating
Louisiana Belles
A celebration of holidays in New Orleans – memories, myths and carols.
Margarita Bergen
Maureen “Mo” Brennan
Leslie Castay
Madelaine Feldman
Peggy Scott Laborde
Tari Hohn Lagasse
Diane Mack
Darcy Malone
Barbara Motley
Nell Nolan
Joyce Pulitzer
Janet Shea
Carol Sutton
Ros Wingerter
This evening is presented in collaboration with WWNO.
Louisiana Cuisine
Louisiana Sirens
MAINSTAGE
Opus
By Michael Hollinger
Directed by Mark Routhier
I Am My Own Wife
By Doug Wright
Directed by Carl Walker
Co-Produced with All Kinds of Theatre
Ameriville
By Universes
Directed by Chay Yew
Co-Produced with Tulane University, Junebug Productions, Ashe Cultural Arts Center
With A Bang *
By Peter McElligott
Directed by Aimée Hayes
Co-Produced with The NOLA Project
Grey Gardens
By Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie
Directed by Aimée Hayes
Co-Produced with Le Petit Theatre
The Piano Teacher
By Julia Cho
Directed by Mark Routhier
THE NEW PLAY BACCHANAL:
THE THANATOS BRASS BAND
By Jim Fitzmorris
AFTERLIFE
By Steve Yockey
THE THING ABOUT IT
By Brian Sands & Pete Sturman
PLAY RIOTS
The finalist in our stage radio play contest make a scene, 10 minutes at a time.
DOUG WRIGHT SPEAKS
A lecture by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award
winning playwright.
ALTERNA-ENDING PLAY SLAM
Theatre makers submit and perform twist endings to familiar works.
A CHAT WITH ERIC OVERMYER
A conversation with the play wright of NATIVE SPEECH and ON THE VERGE, and a writer of HBO?fs The Wire and Treme.
MAINSTAGE
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by Noel Wilson
Co-produced . NOLA PROJECT
The Breach*
By Catherine Filloux, Tarell McCraney & Joe Sutton
Directed by Ryan Rilette.
Doubt
By John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Carl Walker
Co-produced . ALL KINDS OF THEATER
The Clean House
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Aimée Hayes
For Better*
By Eric Coble
Directed by Gary Rucker
A National New Play Network World Premiere
CITY SERIES
Wind in the Willows
Adapted for the stage By Alan Bennett from the book By Kenneth Grahame
NOLA PROJECT
Macbeth at the Gates*
By Micheal Lovett
Directed by Roy Marsden
DEM BOYS LLC
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
Directed by Ryan Rilette
Spinning Into Buttter
By LJ Epstein
The Santaland Diaries
By David Sedaris
Adapted by Joe Mantello
In Walks Ed
By Ryan Rilette
Bat Boy: The Musical
By Emma Griffon
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
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
Wit
By Margaret Edson
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years
By Emily Mann
Scrooge And Nem*
By Ricky Graham and David Cuthbert
Invasion of Beauty*
By Rosary O’Neill
Full Gallop
By Mark Hampton & Mary Louise Wilson
ON TOUR :
Budapest, Hungary Uncle Victor
(formerly Invasion of Beauty)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Co-Produced by Michael Arata Productions &
Dog and Pony theater Co.
Flyin’ West
Pearl Cleage
Noel and Gertie
Devised by Sheridan Morley from words and music of Noel Coward
Exposition Boulevard*
Rosary H. O’Neill
Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write?
By John Maxwell
Four Dogs and a Bone
By John Patrick Shanley
Little Foxes
By Lillian Hellman
Wishing Aces*
By Rosary H. O’Neill
ON TOUR:
Theater du Marais – Paris, France Wishing Aces
FIRST SEASON IN CANAL PLACE
The Miracle Worker
By William Gibson
FRANCO-LOUISIANA NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
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
A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry
The Square Root of Wonderful
By Carson McCullars
An Evening with Tennessee Williams:
27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Lady of LarkspurLotion
By Tennessee Williams
SOUTHERN NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL
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.
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
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
ON TOUR:
Moscow , Russia An Evening with Tennessee Williams:
Wagons Full of Cotton and The Lady of LarkspurLotion
Private Lives
By Noel Coward
…And Further Mo’.
By Vernel Bagneris
Crimes of the Heart
By Beth Henley
The Night of the Iguana
By Tennessee Williams
The Night Before Christmas
By Ken Mentel
P. V T. Wars & Laundry and Bourbon
By James McLure
The Glass Menagerie
By Tennessee Williams
MAINSTAGE
AIRLINE HIGHWAY
by Lisa D’Amour
Directed by Aimée Hayes
A co-production with University of New Orleans Department of Film & Theatre
National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
GROUNDED
by George Brant
Directed by Larissa Lury
SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Mel. Cook
Presented in partnership with the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2 & 3)
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton
MAINSTAGE
National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
BROOMSTICK
by John Biguenet
Amy Boyce Holtcamp
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Aimée Hayes
World Premiere
BOUDIN: The New Orleans Music Project
Conceived and Directed by Sean Daniels
Created by Sean Daniels and Aimée Hayes
DETROIT
by Lisa D’Amour
Directed by Aimée Hayes
LAGNIAPPE STAGE
Charles Dickens’
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Adapted by Doris Baizley
Directed by John “Spud” McConnell
MAINSTAGE
Venus In Fur
By David Ives
Directed by Aimée Hayes
World Premiere
Mold
By John Biguenet
Directed by Mark Routhier
Next To Normal
Music by Tom Kit
Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Directed by Aimée Hayes
LAGNIAPPE SERIES
Charles Dickens’
A Christmas Carol
Adapted by Doris Baizley
Directed by Ann Mahoney Kadar
The Lily’s Revenge:
A Flowergory Manifold
Books, Lyrics and Concept by Taylor Mac
Music by Rachelle Garniez
Directed by Andy Vaught, Pamela Davis-Noland, Nick Slie and Aimée Hayes
Wolves
By Steve Yockey
Freedom
By Sean Patterson, Joyce Pulitzer, Kitty Greenberg and David Seelig
Directed by Mark Routhier
MAINSTAGE
In The Next Room, or the vibrator play
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Aimée Hayes
Regional Premiere
afterlife: a ghost story
By Steve Yockey
Directed by Aimée Hayes
National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
Intríngulis
Written and Performed By Carlo Alban
Directed by David Anzuelo
Regional Premiere
Three World Premiere One-Act Plays
By Tennessee Williams
THE PRETTY TRAP
THE MAGIC TOWER &
EVERY TWENTY MINUTES
Directed by Aimée Hayes
The Norman Conquests
By Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Damon W. Arrington
INCENDIARY
By Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Damon Arrington
NEW ORLEANS NOIR
Written by Greg Herren & Julie Smith
Live Recording aired on WWNO
LOUISIANA LADIEs:
200 Years of Women Worth Celebrating
Readings and songs by:
Troi Bechet
Margarita Bergen
Leslie Castay
Gennifer Flowers
Tari Hohn Lagasse
Diane Mack
Barbara Motley
Nell Nolan
Janet Shea
Susan Spicer
Carol Sutton
THE NEW PLAY BACCHANAL:
FIGHT (Ruby Prize Finalist)
By Kimber Lee
HURT VILLAGE (Ruby Prize Finalist)
By Katori Hall
PANEL: WOMEN OF COLOR IN THE
AMERICAN THEATRE:
Empowerment, Tradition and Trend: A stirring discussion with guest speakers.
10 MINUTE PLAY SLAM
The best from our 10 Minute Play contest.
ALTERNA-ENDING PLAY SLAM
Theatre makers submit and perform twist endings to familiar works.
Southern Rep @ Le Chat Noir:
MOONSHINE MADNESS
Featuring: Michael Cerveris, Ricky Graham,
Leslie Castay, with Emcee Sean Patterson
with performances from A.J. Allegra, Natalie Boyd,
Bob Edes, Jr., Alan Payne, Lisa Picone, Trixie Minx of Fleur de Tease & Jamie Wax
ZOMBIE TOWN: A DOCUMENTARY PLAY
By Tim Bauer
Directed by Mark Routhier
THE FOUR OF US
By Itamar Moses
Directed by A.J. Allegra
GOODNIGHT
By Steve Yockey & Ross Maxwell
THE ISLAND OF DR. FITZMORRIS
By Jim Fitzmorris
Wednesday Night Series:
DEBAUCHERY!
By Pat Bourgeois
Directed by Mark Routhier
6X6: 6 TEN MINUTE PLAYS BY 6 PLAYWRIGHTS
By Southern Rep’s 6×6 playwrights
OPEN MIC MONOLOGUE & POETRY SLAM
POETS & ACTORS • BLESS THE MIC TO COMPETE • DUKE IT OUT • BATTLE • SLAM
MAINSTAGE
Speech & Debate
By Stephen Karam
Directed by Aimée Hayes
The Seafarer
By Conor McPherson
Directed by Mark Routhier
Dying City
By Christopher Shinn
Directed by Julie Hamberg
Sick*
By Zayd Dohrn
Directed by Aimée Hayes
A National New Play Network World Premiere
Shotgun*
By John Biguenet
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton
A National New Play Network World Premiere
CITY SERIES
Private Eyes
By Stephen Dietz
Directed by Andrew Elliott
Gutenberg! The Musical!
By Scott Brown & Anthony King
Co-Directed by Gary Rucker & Sean Patterson
FourFront Theatre Company
The History Boys
By Alan Bennett
Directed by Fred Nuccio
FourFront Theatre Company
Altar Boyz
Book by Kevin Del Aguila, Co-Conceived by Mark Kessler,
Music & Lyrics by Gary Adler & Michal Patrick Walker
Co-Directed by Gary Rucker & Kelly Fouchi
Choreography by Kelly Fouchi
FourFront Theatre Company
Callie’s Tally*
By Betsy Howie
Directed by Loy Arcenas
Yuletide*
By Jim Fitzmorris
Directed by Buzz Podewell
The Sunken Living Room*
By David Caudle
Directed by Ryan Rilette
Co-produced . NEW THEATRE of Coral Gables, FL
Rising Water*
By John Biguenet
Directed by Ryan Rilette
Relativity
By Cassandra Medley
Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe
The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?
By Edward Albee
Directed by Ryan Rilette
Intimate Apparel
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Hal Brooks
SOUTHERN NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL
Featured Production
The Vulgar Soul*
By John Biguenet
Directed by Ryan Rilette
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
Okra
By Anne Galjour
Directed by Perry Martin
Co-produced . EVANGELINE OAKS ENTERTAINMENT
2003-2004
The House of Plunder*
By Jim Fitzmorris
Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge
By Christopher Durang
Yellowman
By Valerie Curtis-Newton
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
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
Love Letters
By A. R. Gurney
The Playboy of the Western World
By J. M. Synge
Co-Production with The Irish Cultural Society of New Orleans
and Beefield Productions
A Woman of Property*
By Rosary H. O’Neill
Death of a Salesman
By Arthur Miller
ON TOUR:
Tbilisi, Georgia A Woman of Property
October 1999 By Rosary O’Neill
Always …Patsy Cline
By Ted Swindley
A Christmas Carol*
By Charles Dickens, Adapted by Ricky Graham
Co-Production with True Brew theater
Lillian
By William Luce
A Louisiana Gentleman*
By Rosary H. O’Neill
Period of Adjustment
By Tennessee Williams
Hearts*
By Rosary O’Neill
Voices in the Dark
By Sharon Bridgforth
The Member of the Wedding
By Carson McCullers
Three Hotels
By Jon Robin Baitz
The Rose Tattoo
By Tennessee Williams
Black Jack: The Thief of Possession*
By Rosary H. O’Neill
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
By Tennessee Williams
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, dramatized by Christopher Sergal
3RD ANNUAL SOUTHERN NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL
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
Can’t Dance,
Too Late to Plow
by Larry Gray
Potpourri Evening
Trilogy of One Acts: Passage in Purgatory
By Robert Kornfeld;
Red Road
By Shirley Sergent;
Evening Education
By Jeff Elwell
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
Belle of Amherst
By William Luce
Suddenly Last Summer
By Tennessee Williams
Master Harold and the Boys
By Athol Fugard
Talley’s Folly
By Lanford Wilson
Southern New Plays Festival
”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
The Importance of Being Earnest
By Oscar Wilde
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
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