Ruby Vega Adams
March 20, 2008
Bertram A. Hebert
March 25, 2008“The Inspector General” (New Orleans)
March 6-29, at St. Mark’s Community Center, 1130 N. Rampart St. For more info: (504) 529-1681. The unscrupulous mayor of an insular and provincial city has adeptly surrounded himself with a flock of crooked and apathetic officials. The hospital is a catastrophe, the teachers are unqualified, the courtroom houses geese, the postmaster reads all the mail, and the police are perpetually drunk.
“Calme au Blanc, Disaster Number 1604, Part 3” (Metairie)
March 13-29, at the Big Top Gallery, 1638 Clio St. For more info: (504) 569-2700. As a black man is arrested after fleeing a murder scene, Frankie St. Pierre is planning a revolution as he struggles to wrap his head around the precarious existence of New Orleans and his place there.
