Theatre and Dance

The Lupin Theater Box Office serves as the hub for all Theatre & Dance ticket sales, as well as the summer’s The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane. 

 

TICKET AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION

During the school year, the Lupin Theater Box Office is open for ticket sales 2 weeks prior to the performance.
 
Hours of Operation are Monday through Friday, 10-4, and 1 hour prior to the performance. 
The Box Office can be reached:  Phone: (504) 865-5106 | Fax: 862-8642 | 
Email: Box@Tulane.edu

Tickets can be purchased online through Brown Paper Tickets or during regular business hours at the Box Office.

Ticket Prices for Lupin Theater productions are:
General Admission: $12
Tulane Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $9
Students & Seniors: $8

Season Subscriptions are available for purchase for the 2010-2011 Season and include all shows:
General Admission: $45
Tulane Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $35
Students & Seniors: $35

 

The 2011-2012 season for the Department of Theatre and Dance

Assemblywomen by Aristophanes
In this Greek comedy, the women of Athens gain control of the city, instituting a totalitarian-esque government.  Among their government changes, each Athenian is fed, house, and taken care of-- and every man may sleep with every woman.

October 18-22 at 8:00 pm, October 23 at 2:00 pm in the Lupin Theater.
Directed by Antony Sandoval

Above the Oaks by the Newcomb Dance Company
The Newcomb Dance Company presents their fall dance concert in the intimate and flexible performance space of McWilliams' Room 300.  Above the Oaks features original choreography by the Newcomb Dance Faculty.

November 1-5 at 8 pm, November 6 at 2 pm in McWilliams' Room 300.
Alice Pascal Escher - Artistic Director.
Tickets for this event are $10 General Admission / $5 for Students with ID.

The Skriker by Caryl Churchill
Combining theater and dance, along with mask work and puppetry, Frank directs Churchill's desperate fairy tale of love and revenge. The Skriker, an ancient fairy and shapeshifter surrounded by creatures of the underworld, haunts, seduces, and entraps two teenage mothers.

November 29 - December 3 at 8 pm, December 4 at 2 pm in Lupin Theater.
Directed by Rebecca Frank.

Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
This early comedy by William Shakespeare explores the conflict between loyalty to friends and the foolish pursuit of young people in love.

February 28- March 3 at 8:00 pm, March 4 at 2:00 pm in the Lupin Theater.
This is a co-production with The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane.

An Evening of Dance by the Newcomb Dance Company
The Newcomb Dance Program Faculty, along with guest choreographers, will present new ballet and modern dance choreography featuring the Newcomb Dance Company.

March 30-31 at 8 pm, April 1 at 2:00 pm in Dixon Auditorium
Alice Pascal Escher - Artistic Director

 

SPECIAL TULANE THEATRE AND DANCE COLLABORATIONS

Rumours of War
Conceived & Directed by Kathy Randels (ArtSpot Productions Artistic Director) and Monique S. Moss (Dance MFA candidate; Third Eye Theatre Artistic Director)
New Orleans African American Museum, 1418 Governor NIcholls St.
October 14-20

October 14-30, 2011, New Orleans African American Museum, 1418 Governor Nicholls St. 

This performance piece, set in Louisiana during the 19th century, is part of the bicentennial commemoration of the 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt. It's three parts, War, Lullaby, and The White Woman of the West, explore themes of slavery, racial privilege, religion, revolution, warfare, and New Orleans' relationship with Haiti.

For more information and ticket information, visit ArtSpot Productions.

Produced by ArtSpot Productions, in collaboration with Third Eye Theatre, Kumbuka African Drum and Dance Collective, New Orleans African American Museum, The Louisiana Museum of African American History, Students at the Center, McDonough 35 Senior High School, Dillard University Theatre Department, and Tulane University Department of Theatre & Dance.

Looking Through New Orleans History: A Performance Event at Pitot House
Directed by Susan Bensinger (Lusher Charter School), Barbara Hayley (Newcomb Dance), and Monique S. Moss (Dance MFA Candidate; Third Eye Theatre)
Pitot House, 1440 Moss St., on historic Bayou St. John
November 13, 4 PM

Newcomb Dance students, Lusher Charter School youth, and Rumours of War artists participate in a site-specific performance event looking at the people and place of Pitot House in New Orleans history.

For more information and tickets, please contact Louisiana Landmarks Society at 504-482-0312 or info@louisianalandmarks.org

Produced and commissioned by Louisiana Landmarks Society, in collaboration with ArtSpot productions, Third Eye Theatre, Lusher Charter School, and Tulane University Department of Theatre and Dance.

 

 

TULANE THEATRE AND DANCE SPONSORED EVENTS

Tulane is pleased to offer many discounted and free performance opportunities for the public, while providing students with educational opportunities to produce, direct, and choreograph pieces.

Young Performers
This series features monologues and scenes directed and produced by theatre students and new choreography from dance students.
December 7-9 in Room 300 and the Lab Theater.

Hayfever by Noel Coward
Set in a 1920s English country house, follow the Bliss family as they confuse, infuriate, and entertain guests with their quarrelsome and outlandish behavior.
April 17-21 at 8:00 pm, April 22nd at 2:00 pm in the LabTheater.

Directed by BFA candidate Stephen Eckert.

Young Performers
This series features new choreography from dance students and monologues and scenes directed and produced by theatre students.
April 26-28 in Room 300 and the Lab Theater.