Tickets are on sale for the production An Invitation to the King’s Ball at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, at the Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church Family Life Center, 9700 Scenic Highway.Single tickets are $25, $40 for … Continue reading →

Robert Warrens speaks of the minimalist movement while considering his painting, “Wild Hog.”It’s a painting he created in 1975, when art critics were praising the genre, which pared art down to its simplest, more pure state.Continue reading →

A memorial service to honor John Dennis, who died Jan. 27, will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, in the Claude L. Shaver Theatre, located in the LSU Music & Dramatic Arts Building on Dalrymple Drive … Continue reading →

The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra will welcome pianist Anton Nel to the capital city for the first time as soloist for its Entergy Masterworks VI concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Baton Rouge River Center … Continue reading →

Don’t take Ira Gershwin’s lyrics literally.Plenty of love songs have been written, and at least one is for you. Opera Louisiane will make sure of that on Valentine’s Day, because you can start the morning off … Continue reading →

Baton Rouge Community College will host its second annual Gospel Festival at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Magnolia Performing Arts Pavilion on campus. This event will feature prominent gospel groups from the Baton … Continue reading →

The West Baton Rouge Museum, 845 N. Jefferson Ave., Port Allen, will present the Flying Geese Productions’ Off-Broadway show The Resurrection of Harriet Tubman for Literacy, a one-woman performance by Melissa Waddy-Thibodeaux, at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12.Continue reading →

Drop cloths are removed, the neon marquee flickers to life and Club Swing radiates in the glow of its former splendor.For one last night.Because the wrecking ball will make way for the new, … Continue reading →

The Louisiana Art & Science Museum, 100 S. River Road, has scheduled several events in February:• 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, First Sunday featuring poet and LSU Professor John D. Pizer and poet and … Continue reading →

It’s finally back.In the LSU Student Union Theater, that is.The LSU School of Music will stage its Concert Spectacular there for the first time in, well, how many years?It almost seems … Continue reading →

Bitterness has a way of blighting a life, picking it apart like a swarm of locusts and leaving little in its wake.Sadly, Troy Maxson is too narrow in his point of view to see it.Continue reading →

Large, small, powerful, interesting.Just when you thought an appropriate description escaped you, it starts coming at you in single phrases.Let’s see, Jesús Moroles’ work is new. It’s fun. It’s strong, and it’s musical.Continue reading →

If only Drew and Joanna Battles could speak to Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy somewhere beyond the theater wings.And well past the pages of every novel with Jane Austen’s name printed on the cover.They might … Continue reading →

The Baton Rouge Arts Market returns from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 4, at 5th and Main streets. The market features more than 60 artists from Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Florida.There will also … Continue reading →

The coolest part is when the rabbit’s face becomes your own.It happens when you lift the cup to your mouth for a sip of coffee or tea or whatever it is you’re drinking at the time.Continue reading →

The Opelousas Museum and Interpretive Center will feature works of art by four African-American artists for Black History Month. The exhibition opens with a reception from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, and will run through … Continue reading →

8 Fluid Ounces: National Juried/Invitational Ceramic Cup Exhibition will open Wednesday, Jan. 25, in the LSU School of Art’s Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Gallery in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. … Continue reading →

Cyber technology ushered in new behavior standards and manners for socializing and interacting with others, standards which may even include crafting an online alter ego.A new theatrical musical comedy Virtually Me! examines this burgeoning dynamic within … Continue reading →

The river is out there, beyond the warm hues of the stained glass and over the levee.And Rolland Golden has never painted it.He sits in the back of the House chamber in Louisiana’s Old … Continue reading →

The camp seems to be claiming the quiet drama of the sunset as its own, knowing that it will fade as soon as night’s curtain hides the stage.It once stood on this spot in Leeville, just … Continue reading →

You anticipate the hug, you hope for it, almost pray for it.When it finally happens, it’s big enough to melt the snow in Almost, Maine, and warm all of the hearts in Baton Rouge Little Theater’s … Continue reading →

The DeBose Foundation will begin its 38th Fine Arts Season by presenting the East Baton Rouge Schools’ Visual Arts Exhibition, featuring adjudicated two- and three-dimensional artworks.The exhibition opening will be at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, … Continue reading →

The 42nd annual River Road Show runs through Friday, Jan. 27, in the Louisiana State Archives Gallery, 3851 Essen Lane. This national juried exhibition, sponsored by the Louisiana Art and Artists’ Guild, is free.This year’s show … Continue reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — Producers of Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” have fired back in their legal fight with one-time director Julie Taymor, claiming the woman who they once called a visionary later failed to fulfill her legal obligations, wrote a “disjointed” and “hallucinogenic” musical, and refused to collaborate on changes when the $75 million show was in trouble.

Eds: APNewsNow. Clarifies there are two groups listed in the 2nd paragraph. With AP Photos.LOS ANGELES (AP) — A star-studded group of A-listers will help George Clooney perform in the Los Angeles premiere of the gay … Continue reading →

This world flows Dali-style through the imagination, filling vacuums in the brain with thoughts that anything is possible.And it is in Baton Rouge Gallery’s Surreal Salon IV exhibit, where artists’ works dare to ask the question, … Continue reading →

NEW YORK — Mekhi Phifer is not used to being shouted at, but it’s part of his Broadway debut.The 37-year-old actor, best known for the TV series ER and the film 8 Mile, is … Continue reading →

Baton Rouge Theater, 7155 Florida Blvd., has scheduled auditions for three upcoming productions:• Vocal auditions for its production of the Stephen Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, will … Continue reading →

A compilation of arts events for the week ahead.SUNDAY, JAN. 15VICTORY BAND ‘SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY’ SHOW: 11 a.m. brunch seating, Stage Door Canteen, National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., … Continue reading →

NEW ORLEANS — The words blare their message in headline type, which only revealed that the women of New Orleans were getting to Gen. Benjamin Butler.He headed the Union troops that captured then … Continue reading →

This is the moment between water and wine.The metallic gold, the variations of red and purple combine to tell the story of Christ’s miracle.But it’s this moment, that microcosm of a second, that Eric … Continue reading →