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New Orleans Arena
1501 Girod St.
New Orleans, LA 70113
Phone: (504) 587-3663, (800) 756-7074
 New Orleans and South Louisiana em barked upon a new era of entertainment and sports when the sparkling New Orleans Arena opened on Oct. 19, 1999.
The state-of-the-art Arena is now the proud home of the NBA New Orleans Hornets and will host more than 40 basketball games for the professional team this year. Located adjacent to the Louisiana Superdome, the Arena is within walking distance of 18,000 hotel rooms, the Central Business District, the French Quarter, and riverfront attractions.
With seating capacity of up to 19,000 for concerts and 18,500 for basketball, the Arena has attracted a number of new events. The entertainment mix includes concerts, festivals, circuses, ice shows, family attractions, meetings, banquets, receptions, trade shows, exhibits, Mardi Gras parties, special convention shows, private functions, and closed-circuit television presentations.
Special events are staged before and/or after some Superdome events. The facility is connected to the Superdome by two pedestrian walkways. It utilizes the Dome’s 5,000-car parking garage as well as the Dome’s 9,000-ton air conditioning system and primary ticket office facilities. Click Here for More... |
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Louisiana Superdome
Sugar Bowl Drive.
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone:(504) 587-3663, (800) 756-7074
 The Louisiana Superdome has hosted six Superbowls--more than any other facility of its kind--three NCAA's Final Fours and more Saints games, Sugar Bowls and star-studded events than imaginable. Built in 1975, the Superdome is better than ever.
The stadium covers 13 acres and reaches 27 stories at its peak, 273 feet above street level. The Dome covers the world's largest steel-constructed room unobstructed by posts, encompassing 125 cubic feet of space.
Home of the New Orleans Saints, the Allstate Sugar Bowl Classic, Tulane University Green Wave Football, the Bayou Classic and the Sugar Bowl Prep Classic, the Superdome is recognized as a titan among sporting venues.
In addition to hosting Superdome sporting events, the Dome excels in producing concerts, family shows, convention/trade shows, stage productions, exhibitions and nearly every type of mega-event. Non-sports activities account for 60 percent of the dates scheduled at the Dome. The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Dolly Parton, Eric Clapton and Britney Spears are just a few stars who have graced the Dome's stage.
The Superdome has four 19,000 square-foot ballrooms, 53 separable meeting rooms, three dining rooms and a television studio. It also houses many offices. A 5000 car garage accommodates vehicles daily for workers in nearby office buildings.
The Superdome is connected by ramp to the New Orleans Centre Mall, the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, and the Poydras Plaza Office Complex. Two additional ramps connect the Superdome to the 18,500 seat New Orleans Arena, which opened in October, 1999. |
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Mahalia Jackson Theatre of the Performing Arts
801 N. Rampart/Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans
Phone: 504.525.1052
The premier venue for cultural arts performances in New Orleans is getting ready to reopen for the first time in three and a half years and an all-star cast of performers is set to commemorate that reopening. World-renowned tenor Placido Domingo, violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman, gospel great Yolanda Adams, and a slate of famed local musicians will take the stage between January 10 and 17 for a week of special performances marking the reopening of the Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts. The theater had been shuttered since it was flooded by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Since that time, the theater’s primary tenants, the New Orleans Opera and the New Orleans Ballet have had to perform elsewhere. The events will mark the culmination of a $27 million effort to restore and improve the theater and outdoor gathering space, the bulk of it financed with local tax dollars. Improvements to the seating, lighting, the orchestra pit and to the stage itself have been made during this reconstruction phase and facelift. Improvements were also made to Louis Armstrong Park where the theater is located |
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Louisiana
Philharmonic Orchestra
225 Baronne Street
New
Orleans, LA 70112
504-523-6530
 Classical music has a long and storied history in New Orleans, dating back to the French colonial era. Members of the city’s upper class were privately entertained by chamber music in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and public performances by full orchestras took place in the city’s many acoustically ideal old theaters. Over the years, a number of symphony orchestras have come and gone in New Orleans. The latest incarnation is the present-day Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Likened to the mythical phoenix bird, rising from the ashes of its own destruction, today’s LPO rose from the ashes of its predecessor, the New Orleans Symphony. When that organization went bankrupt and folded in 1993, the musicians took the initiative and resurrected it. They decided to manage it themselves, hire their own conductors, and raise the funds needed to stage performances at the Orpheum Theatre and other venues around the city. Their success in this resurrection was a “Cinderella story” that received worldwide publicity. It became the first totally musician-owned symphony orchestra in the United States. In recent years, LPO has brought to the stage such renowned guest artists as violinists Pinchas Zukerman and Mark O’Connor, flutist James Galway and pianist/composer Marvin Hamlisch. Its seasons’ repertoires generally range from the works of classical composers – Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and others – to Broadway show tunes, pop standards and patriotic themes. Of the city’s major performing arts groups, LPO has the greatest mobility, being able to offer concerts in many locations, including the outdoors. LPO generally offers about two to three dozen concerts a year. Carlos Miguel Prieto is the principal resident conductor.
LPOd: LPO Podcasts
Get in the loop this season with LPOds, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra's own podcast series that helps you get better acquainted with the music and the musicians of the LPO. Whether you are tone deaf or have perfect pitch, don't miss this opportunity to impress your date, Happy Hour buddies and yourself with all the stunning new knowledge and fun facts you will learn about Classical music and the great LPO Musicians who play it. Check www.lpomusic.com two weeks before each Classics and Spotlight concert or just subscribe to the free podcast to receive automatic notification of new postings.
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By subscribing to the LPOd series in your favorite media player (such as iTunes), you will automatically download all of the newest LPOd podcasts to your computer. Additionally, your media player can be setup to sync the newest LPOds to your portable player (such as an iPod). LPOds are produced so that they are compatiple with every media player that is capable of playing podcasts. |
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New
Orleans Opera
305
Baronne St.
New
Orleans, LA 70112
504-529-2278
 The mission of the New Orleans Opera Association (NOOA) as adopted by the Board of Directors in April, 1992 is to provide the finest possible operatic performances within its means to the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, the State of Louisiana, and the River and Gulf Regions. Grand Opera comprises broad historical, social and geographical events. It is the purpose of NOOA in producing opera to provide for the cultural enrichments of people of all ages without regard to their racial or ethnic make-up, or their physical or economic circumstances. The goals of the organization are to plan, produce and present opera of the highest musical and artistic caliber, especially by drawing on Louisiana’s abundant artistic talent to reach out to a broad public, educating them and developing in them a greater awareness of opera; to provide a statewide education program that includes live performance in the schools, a local student matinee of a mainstage operatic production, free public performances, and opera education lectures; to facilitate the attendance and comfort of individuals with physical and mental impairments; and to maintain the H. Lloyd Hawkins Scenic Studio as a local, national and international opera resource.
2008 - 2009: I Love You to Death
Movies, theater and dance all have achieved greatness with memorable death scenes but fewer art forms tell this tale as often or as well as opera. This season come witness firsthand three smart, strong, charismatic women consumed by love. Puccini, Bizet and Verdi all created beautiful music to express the passion and emotional depth of their leading ladies in Manon Lescaut, Carmen and La Traviata. With the legendary Don Juan story of Don Giovanni you will agree with Mozart’s masterpiece - there is no other acceptable ending to this story.
This 66th season of opera provides a marker for the history books with the anticipated re-opening of the Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts. Mr. Plácido Domingo returns to New Orleans on January 17, 2009 for a gala celebrating both the re-opening of the theater and to help inaugurate the “Plácido Domingo Stage.” Join us as we continue New Orleans’ two-hundred and twelve year heritage of opera!
Season Schedule
A Glorious Gala Concert with Plácido Domingo - January 17, 2009
Bizet’s Carmen – March 20 & 22, 2009 at Mahalia Jackson Theatre of the Performing Arts
Verdi’s La Traviata – April 17 & 19, 2009 at Mahalia Jackson Theatre of the Performing Arts
This season is dedicated to the memory of Abby Ray Catledge and her father, Bryne Lucas Ray. |
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New Orleans Ballet Association | NOBA
One Lee Circle.
New
Orleans, LA 70130
Phone: 504-522-0996
 Founded in 1969, the New Orleans Ballet Association is the city’s premier dance company. It originally featured local dancers, but then it gradually expanded to its present-day status of booking national and international touring companies.
Over the years NOBA has showcased the talents of some of the leading companies of Russia, Spain, Ireland, Ukraine and other European nations, as well as Japan, Africa and Latin America. Renowned American companies such as the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, the Elisa Monte Dance Company, Parsons Dance Company, MOMIX, Twyla Tharp, and Edward Villella’s Miami City Ballet have also performed there in recent years. France’s famed Joffrey Ballet and Russia’s renowned Bolshoi Ballet have also appeared on the company’s bill at various times.
Offering four to five mainstage performances a year, NOBA attempts to vary its repertoire as widely as possible. In addition to staging classical ballet performances, it also books companies known for folk dancing, jazz, and more modern and innovative urban dance styles. Occasionally individual stars are headlined, like Savion Glover, one of the premiere tap dancers of the present day.
The award-winning company has also become renowned for its vast, innovative teaching network. Thousands of students throughout the Gulf South region have learned their techniques from highly qualified dance instructors working under NOBA’s aegis. |
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Contemporary Arts Center
900 Camp St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
(504) 528-3805
Attraction Hours: Gallery Hours are Thursday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hours for performances, special events and evening programs vary.
Admission Costs: Gallery admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students and seniors, and free for CAC members and children 15 and under. Group rates available.
Handicapped Accessible: Yes
Free Parking: No
 Description:
Leading the transformation of New Orleans’ downtown Warehouse District into the vibrant cultural hub it is today is the Contemporary Arts Center. Since 1976, the center has been the Warehouse Arts District’s focal point and a home to bold experiments in painting, theatre, music, performance art, dance, photography, video, sculpture and more – all celebrating the art of now. The center boasts 30,000 square feet of turn-of-the-century warehouse spaces, including the award-winning architecture of our sleek modern galleries, atrium, theaters and studios.
Renovated in 1990, the building (a historic 1905 warehouse) mixes the timelessness of New Orleans’ historic architecture with contemporary material, open spaces, and site-specific works by local and internationally known artists. Multi-disciplinary programming, presented year-round, include world-class visual arts exhibitions, cutting edge performing arts shows, unique education programs and fabulously festive celebrations.
Rotating visual arts exhibitions, spotlighting unique and eclectic works in all mediums by local, national and internationally renowned artists, are displayed in a 10,000+ square foot space, illuminated with natural light. Performances range from urban dance theatre to legendary jazz master series to avant-garde classical and everything in between.
The CAC’s educational programming delights the young and young at heart with a children’s gallery, creative art workshops, summer arts camp, field trips, and a variety of lecture series and learning programs. And it’s easy to kick up your heels at the CAC’s fun special events, including two of the largest art happenings and outdoor celebrations in New Orleans, NOADA’s White Linen Night (always the first Saturday in August) and Art for Arts’ Sake (always the first Saturday in October). Plus huge parties like SweetArts and Bourbon & Burlesque add a touch of debauchery and mystery to the traditional arts benefit.
The CAC is also a wonderful venue to rent for a wide range of private and public events, for as little as 10 guests, and as high as 3,500 guests. |
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Anthony
Bean Community Theater
1333
S Carrollton Ave.
New
Orleans, LA 70118
504-862-7529
The
theater was established to meet the demands of New Orleans
residents interested in learning about and participating
in dramatic art. |
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Le Petit Theatre
616 Saint Peter St.
New Orleans, LA 70116
(504) 522-2081
 Description:
This 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, and "Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre" was inaugurated. Lord Dunsany, the eminent Irish playwright, visiting the city, formally launched the new playhouse with his commendation and good wishes.
Success and a growing audience soon made it clear that even larger quarters were needed, and the present site at the corner of St. Peter and Chartres streets was purchased, under the guidance of Harold W. Newman, Sr., Chairman of the Board. Three small shed-like buildings facing St. Peter St. were removed and the present theatre building was constructed in 1922. Noted architect Richard Koch designed, in authentic Spanish Colonial style.
The original corner building was designed in 1789 by Gilberto Guillemard and built in 1794 by Jean Baptiste Orso, a wealthy citizen of New Orleans. The original building was destroyed in the great fire of 1794 and was rebuilt in 1797 for the last Spanish governor of Louisiana, Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the corner building passed through many hands until the mid-19th century, when it became a bar called "Le Veau Qui Tere." As the French Quarter declined into a slum, the building fell into disrepair and remained so until its acquisition by the theatre group, an important component of the "urban pioneers" of the 1920's who revived the French Quarter by making it a center for the arts.
Many prominent Orleanians were in the founding group: civic leaders, educators, writers, businessmen; the famous New Orleans names appearing in the early programs are too many to enumerate. But three should be mentioned -- the three "fairy godmothers" who started it all: Louise (Mrs. J. Oscar) Nixon, the "mother" of the group; Helen Pitkin (Mrs. Christian) Schertz, and Rita Loeb (Mrs. Abraham) Goldberg (later Mrs. Eberhard Deutsch),in whose house at 1527 Seventh Street the Drawing Room Players first performed.The building complex holds a fully professionally equipped theatre seating 450. The corner building, reconstructed in 1963, holds reception rooms, offices, dressing rooms, and a Children's Corner theatre with a capacity of more than 120.The theatre is supervised by a Board of Governors, with productions staged by a professional staff.
All the performers are volunteers, in accordance with the charter designating it a community theatre, though many are professionals in music, dance, TV or other performing arts. Auditions are open to all. During its many years of operation, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre has been recognized as one of the leading "little" or community theatres in the nation. |
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Marigny Theatre
1030 Marigny Street.
New
Orleans, LA 70117
504-218-8559
Come to one of our entertainment events and see what everyone is talking about. Or make an appointment to visit our newly remodeled state of the art 150 seat cabaret style theater. Schedule your next theatrical production or event at the Marigny Theatre. Conveniently located in the Faubourg Marigny, with plenty of free off street parking.
Mission
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 first objective : Marigny Theatre. The purposes 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. The second objective: Faubourg Theatre Class. The purpose of this activity is to promote the arts and culture and provide instruction or training to individuals for the purpose of improving or developing their theatre art skills. We will further our purposes under this objective by providing classes to anyone who wants to learn about the performing arts. |
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Lupin Theatre at Tulane University
16 Newcomb Blvd., Dixon Annex,
Tulane
University
New
Orleans, LA 70118
504-
865-5105
Call
for performance schedule
Louisiana's
professional Shakespearean Theatre invites you for a stellar
season of Shakespeare. |
Southern
Repertory Theatre
365
Canal St.
New
Orleans, LA 70118
504-522-6545
Live
Theater Professional regional theater that produces regional
and world premieres of new plays by Southern playwrights
and new plays set in the South. |
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Dinner at the Court of Two Sisters Restaurant
When you come to New Orleans, you simply can't go past a sumptuous Creole dinner at the Court of Two Sisters restaurant. Nestled in the historic French Quarter, you can enjoy the best southern cuisine in New Orleans' largest courtyard! |
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Southern Comfort Cocktail Tour
Take this tour on your first day in New Orleans to find out the places you must go! From the Sazerac and Pimm's Cup to the Hurricane and Hand Grenade, you'll enjoy a view of New Orleans through its history of fine dining and drinking! |
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New Orleans Cooking Class
Welcome to the Fun, Food and Folklore of The New Orleans School of Cooking! These entertaining classes are located in a renovated molasses warehouse built in the early 1800's in the heart of the French Quarter! |
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New Orleans MealTicket
This is your ticket to the best restaurants in New Orleans! Your New Orleans MealTicket™ includes meals at the following restaurants Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, Dixie Roadhouse, Louisiana Pizza Kitchen and many more! |
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New Orleans PowerPass
Your New Orleans Power Pass™ gets you into attractions such as Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, Entergy IMAX Theatre, Steamboat Natchez, Hurricane Katrina Tour, Longue Vue House and Gardens and more - it's like having a ticket to everything! |
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New Orleans Package - $292.00
The beat goes on in New Orleans, where jazz legends abound and it's hard to decide which is better: the music or the food!
Includes: Flight, Luxury Hotel,
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Steamboat Natchez Evening Jazz Cruise
Welcome aboard the Steamboat Natchez - as famous as New Orleans herself. Enjoy an evening of Dixieland Jazz and casual dining aboard this historic paddlewheeler! This is one of New Orleans' "Must-Do's"! |
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Haunted New Orleans Tour
New Orleans has such a colorful history that includes entities such as ghosts, vampires and voodoo. On this 2 hour walking tour, you will learn about all the haunted happenings in the Big Easy and you'll even visit a haunted bar! |
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