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It all began 20 years ago when René J.F. Piazza, a student at the University of New Orleans majoring in Drama and Communications, got together with a group of friends to produce their own video play. Essentially the final project for his beginning acting class was to perform a scene. Piazza took it one step further and wrote his own original script. He went out and filmed on location with a single camera and enlisted the help of friends and family for various locations while shooting the movie.

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Anthony Bean Community Theater and Acting School was established the Spring of 2000 to meet the demands of New Orleans area residents interested in learning and participating in dramatic art.  Other than ABCT, professional theater companies that provide an open enrollment school for children and adults are a non-existent breed in the Southern Region. They offer a fully operational day and evening school in dramatic arts, including both acting, stage design and management. Hurricane Katrina has given the theater and school a challenge to serve our community. They will meet the challenge. Teaching and performing is the essence of ABCT. There is no greater role.

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Each year, Crescent City Lights Youth Theater provides professional theater experiences for young people – ages 7 to 17 – in the Greater New Orleans area. The theater offers a forum for collaboration of artists, designers and playwrights and enriches the entire community with its professional quality stage productions and classes. Crescent City Lights instills an early appreciation of literature, art and the performing arts in tomorrow's artists and patrons.

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The Cripple Creek Theatre Company is a professional, non-equity organization dedicated to producing dramatic works of cultural, historical, and political relevance in order to provoke the general public into social action. The Cripple Creek Theatre Co. relies on support from individuals, businesses, and foundations in order to finance our operating costs. Making plays is an expensive business, and through your generous support we are able to keep ticket prices affordable and work to serve a non-traditional theatre audience.

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The Jefferson Performing Arts Society (JPAS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to arts education and cultural enrichment for the New Orleans Metropolitan area. Founded in 1978, by Dennis G. Assaf and Hannah Cunningham, JPAS has grown from a community choral group to a multi-award-winning organization! JPAS is now embarking upon their 31st season of providing not only choral concerts, but also a plethora of professional entertainment including theatre, opera and dance. More than 10,000 youths are involved in a myriad of programs such as our Arts Adventure Series, Summer Musical Theatre Camps, Children’s Choruses, Stage Without a Theatre (SWAT) and Cultural Crossroads, which is specifically geared towards incorporating arts in education.

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Since 1999, Le Chat Noir has been considered New Orleans most intimate night spot and the premier venue for musical theatre, comedy and satire, cabaret shows and other types of live entertainment. Much of what we present is original work. Le Chat Noir is located at 715 St. Charles Avenue in the historic Warehouse/Arts District of downtown New Orleans. So, come in and introduce yourself. We always enjoy getting to know new people and introducing you to the wonderful array of performing artists that calls New Orleans home.

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This 92-year-old community theatre, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, had its inception back in 1916, when a group of amateur theatre-lovers began putting on plays in the drawing room of one of the members. The enthusiastic audiences of the Drawing Room Players, as they called themselves, soon grew to the point where a larger space was needed, so the founders decided to rent space in the lower Pontalba Building, for the sum of $17.50 per month! When the quarters were ready, a christening was held...

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Marigny Theatre Corporation is a nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Specifically, this organization has been formed to promote the arts and culture, and provide instruction to the public on subjects useful to the individual and beneficial to the community. The purpose is to promote the arts and culture, and provide instruction to the public in the study of the arts. We will further our purposes under this objective by providing community based education, performance, and exhibition.