Loyola University New Orleans’ Theatre Arts and Dance Department will perform Beth Henley’s classic Southern gothic play “Crimes of the Heart” starting Friday to end its main stage season.
Loyola’s “Crimes of the Heart” is directed by Artemis Preeshl, associate professor of theatre arts at Loyola. The play is an adaptation of Chekhov’s “The Three Sisters,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981.
This tragicomedy follows three sisters in Mississippi as the ghosts of their pasts haunt them after one of the sisters kills her abusive husband. Each sister committed a crime of the heart and, throughout the play, reveal secrets as they become closer to each other.
The play will have six performances in the Marquette Theatre on Loyola’s campus. The times for Friday, March 13, and March 14, 19, 20 and 21 will each have one show at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 15 will have a matinee show at 2 p.m.
General admission tickets are $12. Tickets for students, children and senior citizens are $8.
For tickets, call (504) 865-2074 or visit www.montage.loyno.edu.
