The Wild Party

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"Queenie was a blonde, and her age stood still, and she danced twice a day in vaudeville ... She lived at present with a man named Burrs. Whose act came on just after hers. A clown of renown: three-sheeted all over town." 

A tale of Jazz-age debauchery, steamy prohibition, and mad dancing, Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem, The Wild Party will come to life at Theatre Baton Rouge this month, in the form of Andrew Lippa's Off-Broadway gem. It's a tale of love gone awry—even deadly in a haze of prohibition booze, drugs, and rage at Queenie and Burrs' 1920s-Manhattan version of Project X. And it all ends with a smoking gun. 

Performances will run from August 16–25, Thursday–Saturday nights (7:30 pm) and Sunday afternoons (2 pm). $31; $20 for students at theatrebr.org or (225) 924-6496. Rated R for language, stage violence, drug-use, and sexual situations.