Baton Rouge area arts and cultural events for Feb. 1 | Entertainment/Life

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‘Mean Girls’ tickets

Tickets are on sale for the Musical Theatre Club at LSU’s production of the musical, “Mean Girls,” opening Feb. 6 at Mid City Civic Theatre, 7155 Florida Blvd.

Tickets are $25. Visit lsumtc.ludus.com/index.php.

‘Dressing Louisiana’

The LSU Textile & Costume Museum, Human Ecology Building, 330 Tower Drive, LSU, will be open from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 1 for Free First Sunday. The museum currently is showing, “Dressing Louisiana: Histoires de la mode de la Louisiane,” which runs through March 4.

Admission is free. Visit lsu.edu/agriculture/textilemuseum/index.php.

‘Coretta’ tickets

Tickets are on sale for UpStage Theatre’s production of “A Song for Coretta,” opening Feb. 21 at the theater, 1713 Wooddale Blvd.

Tickets are $27. Visit upstagetheatre.biz.

At Baton Rouge Gallery

Baton Rouge Gallery center for contemporary art, 1515 Dalrymple Drive, is showing work by artist members Kathryn Baczeski, Christopher Scott Brumfield, Rosemary Goodell and Heather Kelley through Feb. 22.

Hours are noon-6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission is free. Visit batonrougegallery.org.

Concert in the Cosmos

Tickets are on sale for the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra’s next “Concert in the Cosmos” series performances, “It’s Mardi Gras Time!: A Concert Celebrating Mardi Gras” at 7:30 p.m. on both Feb. 11 and Feb. 12 in the Louisiana Art & Science Museum’s Pennington Planetarium, 100 S. River Road.

Tickets are $40-$60. Visit brso.org

Gala and ‘Sweeney’

Tickets are on sale for Sullivan Theater’s inaugural fundraiser, “The Overture Gala,” at 6 p.m. Feb. 7 at the theater, 8849 Sullivan Road, Central. Tickets are $75.

Tickets also are sale for the theater’s production of “Sweeney Todd,” opening Feb. 28, at the theater. Tickets are $28-$39.

Visit sullivantheater.com.

At the Manship

Tickets are on sale for Aquila Theatre’s production of “Hound of the Baskervilles” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Manship Theatre in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St.

Tickets are $35. Visit manshiptheatre.org.

At LSU Museum of Art

The LSU Museum of Art in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St., will open “AI: Artistic Interpretations, Studio Art Quilt Associates” on Feb. 5 and “Daphnis and Chloe and Other Lovers: Lithographs by Marc Chagall” on Feb. 12.

Also, tickets are on sale for Champagne & Chagall at 6 p.m. Feb. 12. During the evening, Consul General of France in Louisiana Rodolphe Sambou will share brief remarks offering insight into Marc Chagall’s life and work, and the cultural spirit of Paris reflected in the exhibition.

Tickets are $20. Visit lsumoa.org.

‘House of Weary’

The Louisiana Art & Science Museum, 100 S. River Road, will open “The Rise of the House of Weary,” a solo exhibition by Baton Rouge artist Mike Weary, on Feb. 1. The show runs through April 12.

Visit lasm.org.

‘Romeo and Juliet’ tickets

Tickets are on sale for Ascension Community Theatre’s production of “Romeo and Juliet,” opening Feb. 19, at the theater. 823 N. Felicity Ave., Gonzales.

Tickets are $19-$34. Visit actgonzales.org.    

At LSU Galleries

LSU’s Barnes Ogden Gallery, 31 S. Campus Drive, LSU, is showing “Twofold: Collaborative Work by Addoley Dzegede & Lyndon Barrois Jr.” through Feb. 28.

LSU’s Glassell Gallery in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St., “The Middle: Paintings by Will Maxen & Bradley Kerl,” through March 14.

The Laura and Clark Boyce Gallery in LSU’s Julian T. White Hall, 297 Field House Drive, LSU, is showing “Interiors Under Construction: Ria Bravo” through Feb. 28.

Admission to all exhibits is free.

At Swine Palace

Tickets are on sale for Swine Palace’s production of “The Totality of All Things,” continuing through Feb. 7, in the Shaver Theatre in the LSU Music and Dramatic Arts Building, Dalrymple Drive. General admission tickets are $34.

For tickets, visit lsu.edu/cmda/events/index.php.

Not forgotten

The West Baton Rouge Museum, 845 N. Jefferson Ave., Port Allen, is currently showing the exhibit, “Gone But Not Forgotten: Black Cemeteries of West Baton Rouge.”

The exhibit examines the historic lost burial grounds of enslaved Black people across the parish, as well as those cemeteries that are in danger of becoming lost to Mother Nature or land development. Many of these were started by Black churches or Benevolent Societies in the latter part of the 19th century.



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