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Together with the theater’s Board of Directors, they worked tirelessly to stabilize a challenging situation. Sam Sweet, who has an extensive background in arts consulting and management, had been bought in as Interim Executive Director and he worked with Sacha Grandoit, who had been part of SRep’s artistic leadership team for the past three years and was promoted to Interim Artistic Director in October. To be sure, perhaps the biggest drama swirled offstage around Southern Rep which was forced to vacate its home in the former St. Yet, after lockdowns and quarantines and social distancing, audiences hungry for live theater–presentations that allow us to come together in a manner going back hundreds and hundreds of years–regularly filled performance spaces to capacity.

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While some of our local acting talent found work in TV and film productions shooting here, it seemed odd not seeing the familiar faces of both local thespians and habitual theatergoers on what had once been a steady schedule.

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Much of the year, if you lived in Orleans Parish and wanted to see a live drama, comedy or musical, it necessitated an hour or so drive north or east.

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Even as things kindasorta returned to usual, I saw about half as many shows as I had in 2019. Not surprisingly, the season’s traditional ebb and flow of openings followed by 2-3 week runs was disrupted. The Tennessee Williams Theater Company has had to postpone For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls twice hopefully, it will finally be able to be done in March. JPAS and Rivertown both had to deal with hurricane-ravaged buildings which necessitated moving shows ( The Addams Family and Hello, Dolly!, respectively) to other venues. It hasn’t been easy on the psyches of local theater community members or the bank accounts of NOLA’s theater troupes. And, miraculously, the shows, most of them, went on.














Ambushed at the hotel ava