Baton Rouge Little Theater Inc

The award-winning Theatre Baton Rouge in Louisiana is one of the oldest and largest community theatres in the nation, offering over 150 theatrical performances, workshops, classes and special events each year.   TBR’s audience is truly a regional one.  Over 30,000 people attend BRLT each season from the eleven-parish Capital Area as well as the larger south Louisiana/southern Mississippi region.  

MISSION:  Opportunity

TBR’s Mission is to provide the residents of the Greater Baton Rouge Area the opportunity to participate in quality live theatre as an audience member, actor, or production worker.  

CAPITAL SERIES

The Main Stage Theatre  is the venue for our much celebrated Capital Series. Located in the main  building, the Main Stage combines the intimacy of a small house while having  the production capabilities of a larger professional theatre. Rows are lettered  A through Q, so every location is equivalent to sitting in the front orchestra  of a much larger house.

Under Managing Artistic  Director Keith Dixon, notable productions include The Elephant Man, Steel Magnolias, Rent, One Flew Over the  Cuckoo’s Nest and A Streetcar Named Desire.  Works by such acclaimed writers as Noel  Coward, Tom Stoppard, Chuck Mee and Tennessee Williams exemplify TBR’s commitment  to providing a wide range of theatrical experiences.  In addition, TBR  has been at the forefront of regional premieres, from the 1985 production of A Chorus Line, to Rent in 2010,  to this season'sYoung Frankenstein.   Musical comedy to drama, farce to mystery, the Main Stage Season has  something for everyone.

CITY SERIES

TBR’s 99-seat Studio is truly an actor’s space. The  Studio, home of TBR’s City Series, presents exciting and innovative works in an  intimate setting, giving our actors and audience a unique communal experience.  The flexible space features newly configured stepped stadium seating that  allows excellent sight lines from all seats for a unique theatrical event.

Among  others, plays by Athol Fugard, Edward Albee and David Hare, along with the  tongue-in-cheek musical Urinetown have been featured to critical acclaim.   The Studio is more than just another production space,  however.  Its intimate, no-frills  arrangement is ideally suited for workshops of new pieces as well as a wide  variety of staged readings. Over the years The Studio has  helped TBR fulfill its commitment to the larger community by opening its doors  to other theatre and performance companies in the area, some recently formed,  others well-established, in turn nurturing the arts as a whole through mutual  support and partnership.

EDUCATION and OUTREACH

Supporting Education and Outreach goes well beyond performances.   TBR’s Education program is anchored by a comprehensive series of summer camps featuring musical and play production components as well as opportunities geared to young children, high school students and adults.  TBR also offers fall, winter and spring classes for all ages, focusing on acting/performance, auditioning, film/TV acting, theatre design and storytelling.  Our new Young Actors Program fuses education with application as students present a fully-realized production for the general public.

Additionally, TBR engages the community through broad-based outreach activities including the Readers’ Theatre Series, post-performance discussions, and ASL interpreted performances for the hearing impaired.  In recent years, TBR has partnered with Youth ALIVE and City at Peace to bring theatre to a new generation and community.  These partnerships along with all of the other Education and Outreach activities help make TBR the region’s pivotal theatre arts organization.