NEW ORLEANS – Now in its eighth year, Rough Draughts – The NOLA Project theatre company’s free playreading series – returns to The Broadside on Wednesday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m.
Season 21 productions start in October, but The NOLA Project will open its proverbial doors this month with a never-before-heard script by Thomas Mullen and Maria Messias Mendes.
“ONE NIGHT AT THE BLACKBIRD was inspired after NOLA Project’s Burns Night in January,” said Mullen. “That’s when I learned that Jacob Schoen and Son Funeral Home was offering their facilities to make better use of their chapels, which are of course, stages. And so I conceived of a clandestine nightclub within the walls of the funeral home, featuring deceased legends of the New Orleans music scene.”
The reading will feature The NOLA Project ensemble members James Bartelle and Matthew Thompson as well as local actors KC, Aria Jackson, Jessica Mixon and Ja’Quan Monroe-Henderson.