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groups and venues for the performing arts in

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, most notably in

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Abbeville

* Abbey Players

Alexandria

* Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center * Hearn Stage at The Kress Theatre * Rapides Opera House

Baton Rouge

Greek Theatre Ancient Greek theatre was a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC. The city-state of Athens, which became a significant cultural, political, and religious place during this period, was its centre, where the theatre was ...

* Reilly Theatre *

Raising Cane's River Center Raising Cane's River Center (originally named the Riverside Centroplex and later the Baton Rouge River Center) is an entertainment complex in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Opened in 1977, the complex includes: an arena, ballroom, exhibition cent ...

* Manship Theatre * Southern University Theatre

Hammond

Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts The Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts is a historic theatre located in downtown Hammond, Louisiana. History The theatre opened on September 1, 1928, the same year that Hammond Junior College became Southeastern Louisiana College. Original ...

Metairie

* Jefferson Performing Arts Center

New Orleans

Anthony Bean Community Theater Anthony Bean Community Theater & Acting School (ABCT) was established in the spring of 2000. , the company was New Orleans' only African-American community theatre. Founder Anthony Bean established the theater and drama school with the goal of rep ...

* Carver Theater * Civic Theatre *

Joy Theater The Joy Theater, named after owner Joy Houck, is a theater and historic landmark built in 1947 on Canal Street in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. Renovations in 2011 transformed the former movie palace into a multi-purpose theater for live mus ...

Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Le Petit Théâtre Du Vieux Carré is a small professional theatre in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Le Petit was founded in 1916, when a group of amateur theatre-lovers began putting on plays in the drawing room of one of the mem ...

Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts The Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts is a theater located in Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was named after gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, who was born in New Orleans. The theater reopened in January 2009, after ...

* Orpheum Theater * Saenger Theatre * State Palace Theatre

Ponchatoula

* Swamplight Theatre

Shreveport

RiverView Theater The Riverview Theater is a cinema in the Howe neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, the theater was built by theater owners Bill and Sidney Volk in 1948. After building a subsequent theater in ...

Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium is a historic performance and meeting venue at 705 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Shreveport, Louisiana. It is an Art Deco building constructed between 1926 and 1929 during the administration of Mayor Lee Emme ...

* Strand Theatre

St. Martinville

* Duchamp Opera House

Thibodaux

* Thibodaux Playhouse, Inc. {{coord missing, Louisiana Theatres in Louisiana

Theaters Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...