Robin Miller

6 days ago | theadvocate.com | Robin Miller

Tickets are on sale for Christian Youth Theatre's production of the musical "CATS," opening May 22 in the Shaver Theatre in the LSU Music and Dramatic Arts Building, Dalrymple Drive. Tickets are $16-$22. Visit cytbatonrouge.org/shows/CATS-young-actors-edition/29. The Music Club of Baton Rouge will conclude its season with a recital at 10:30 a.m. May 13, in the First United Methodist Church Conference Center, 930 North Blvd., Baton Rouge.

1 week ago | theadvocate.com | Robin Miller

Shelton Berry first encountered Edward Searcy while exiting Port Allen High School's band room. Berry doesn't remember the exact date, only that he was a student dressed to the nines for a school function. Was he in the ninth grade or 10th? He doesn't remember. But he does recall thinking he looked pretty good in his suit until Searcy set him straight. "I had on some dress shoes, and (Searcy) said, 'Young, man, come here,'" Berry said.

1 week ago | theadvocate.com | Robin Miller

Paul Groves was 7 years old when he first heard that classic, mournful tenor aria usually sung by a clown on opera stages. The song — specifically one of its passages — is usually recognized even by those not interested in opera because of its pop culture use in movies, cartoons and even commercials.

1 week ago | theadvocate.com | Robin Miller

Hamlet will be there. "Twelfth Night's" Viola and Sebastian will, too. Visitors have a chance to meet these, along with other characters created by the bard, when they visit the Louisiana Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare Festival on May 10. The festival is the first in what the company hopes to be an annual event in the Capitol Park Museum, 660 N. Fourth St., Baton Rouge. It runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both inside and on the museum grounds.

1 week ago | theadvocate.com | Robin Miller

The chorus for Opera Louisiane's production of "Pagliacci" gathered together on May 4 for a rehearsal in the Manship Theatre's Studio Theatre. Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci follows a troupe of traveling actors performing traditional Italian commedia dell’arte. Canio, the troupe’s leader, suspects his wife, Nedda, of infidelity. As jealous tensions rise and the offstage drama mirrors the onstage performance, real-life passions boil over into a deadly conclusion.