For a relatively small city, New Orleans has a remarkably vibrant and varied performing-arts community. While there are many traditional performance venues around town, one of the most exciting movements in recent years is the fringe theater action along Saint Claude Avenue, in the Bywater neighborhood. The annual Fringe Theater Festival brings pop-up performances, but there are also some permanent venues as well.
Held around Independence Day, this three-day festival brings in more than a half-million visitors and draws top names in R&B, pop, and hip...Read More
A $27-million post-Katrina renovation returned the lights to this fabulous stage and restored the sculpture-filled Armstrong Park grounds. With...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesThe biggest event on the city's cultural calendar is also the oldest—it's been around for more than a century. Parades roll almost nightly for...Read More
Top-notch local, national, and international musical talent takes to several stages the last weekend of April and first weekend of May. The...Read More
Gratifying concerts of all types—solo, choral, orchestral, and chamber—fill the vaulted interior of Trinity Episcopal Church most Sunday evenings...Read More
This community theater also houses an acting school, providing young local actors with an audience. Productions include musical dramatizations...Read More
Art lovers and people-watchers alike pack Warehouse District and Magazine Street galleries in early October for the annual Saturday-evening...Read More
Theater buffs routinely make the hour's drive from downtown New Orleans to this unique theater that sits on the banks of Bayou Lafourche in...Read More
City Park's majestic oaks, Botanical Gardens, Carousel Garden, and Storyland amusement park are awash in holiday lights and decorations during...Read More
Throughout the month of December, Canal Street sparkles with the season's decorations, and historic homes across the city put on their holiday...Read More
Three fun parades hit the streets of the French Quarter on Easter Sunday: one led by local entertainer Chris Owens, another dedicated to the...Read More
With stages set up throughout the Quarter and on the river at Woldenberg Park, the focus here is on free local entertainment—and, of course...Read More
Socialite Germaine Wells, step-daughter of the founder of Arnaud's Restaurant (and eventually its owner), started this New York–style Easter...Read More
This organization brings superior performers from all over the world to Tulane University's Dixon Hall. Concerts take place approximately once...Read More
Fashion takes a front seat at this parade, which ambles through the Quarter midafternoon on Easter Sunday, passing gay and gay-owned bars,...Read More
For more than 65 years, the Irish Channel St. Patrick's Day Club has put on a Saturday-afternoon-before-St. Paddy's Day parade with floats,...Read More
This community-based dance school and ballet company stages a few public performances each year, including festive balls and an annual winter...Read More
A wonderful fount of culture, if a bit out-of-the-way, the society stages musicals, ballets, recitals, kids' theater, and operas at multiple...Read More
Since 1916, Le Petit Théâtre has entertained the French Quarter with plays, musicals, and variety shows. The oldest continuously running community...Read More
The always good, sometimes excellent LPO now holds court at the Orpheum Theater while continuing to perform at Tulane and Loyola university...Read More
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