NOLA PROJECT ANNOUNCES 2025-2026 SEASON

The theatre company has announced its 2025-2026 Season, with the titles all revolving around iconic texts.

“The NOLA Project’s 21st Season is a love letter to the power of storytelling,” said Artistic Director Tenaj Wallace. “Each play this season was carefully curated and invites us to wrestle with big ideas about who we are, what we inherit, and how we choose to rise. Whether it’s a darkly comic take on a literary legend, a barbecue-laced reimagining of Shakespeare, a timeless tale of a woman’s wrath and grief, or a searing exploration of injustice in our own backyard, I’m thrilled to lead The NOLA Project into this rich textual terrain and to keep creating theatre that’s as fearless and layered as this city.”

Season 21 opens in the fall with FRANKENSTEIN, a world-premiere collaboration with Lafitte Greenway Partnership, directed by ensemble member Leslie Claverie, at the Station at Lafitte
Greenway October 2-17.

Next is FAT HAM, a co- production with Dillard University. In James Ijames’ delectably comic, Pulitzer Prize-winning reinvention of HAMLET, what starts as a boisterous barbecue quickly turns into a haunting examination of love, loss, pain and joy. FAT HAM – directed by Wallace – runs January 15-February 6, 2026, at Dillard’s Cook Theater.

For the final mainstage production of the season, The NOLA Project takes another classic outdoors with MEDEA, a second collaboration with Lafitte Greenway Partnership. Audiences have
been captivated by one woman’s quest for vengeance as far back as 431 BC. Directed
by Claverie and Wallace, MEDEA plays at the Greenway May 15-30, 2026.

See The NOLA Project website for more details