JPAS' 2026-2027 Season
The Jefferson Performing Arts Society has announced their 49th season, full of musical, dramatic, and festive theater productions.
Browse the show options listed at the Jefferson Performing Arts Center and the Westwego Performing Arts Theatre to schedule your next playhouse experience.
2026 to 2027 Show Line-Up
At the Jefferson Performing Arts Center
Our City of Saints: August 20 through 23
Come From Away: September 11 through 20
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: December 4 throught 13
The Nutcracker: December 19 through 20
Les Misérables: February 26 through March 7
Anastasia the Musical: April 9 through 18
At the Westwego Performing Arts Theatre
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder: July 31 through August 9
My Fair Lady: September 25 through October 11
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street: November 6 through 22
A Mardi Gras Carol: December 4 through 14
The Marvelous Wonderettes: January 8 through 24
The 39 Steps: March 5 through 21
Tootsie: May 7 through 23
*Surprise Summer Show: July 9 through 18
Show Breakdown
Jefferson Performing Arts Center Features
The season at JPAC will begin with a production Our City of Saints. This original musical follows the Sinclair family over a series of decades, leading up to the 2010 Super Bowl. The New Orleans Saints' journey to this victory is told in tandem with the Sinclair family as they navigate what it means to be a New Orleanian.
This will be followed by a production of Come From Away, a true story winning the Best Direction of a Musical at the Tony Awards. It tells of the experience travelers had when stranded in Canada during the 9/11 attacks.
With holiday themes in mind, the center will also feature Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Nutcracker. These classics are great for audiences of all ages looking to celebrate the season via the arts.
The beloved work Les Misérables explores injustice, revolution, poverty, and love, set in 19th century France. This 1862 novel was transformed into a globally-performed musical, now coming to the JPAC. In addition, Anastasia, based on the 1997 animated movie of the same name, tells the legend of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and her rumored escape from the murder of the Romanov family.
Westwego Performing Arts Theatre Features
The first production hosted by Westwego Performing Arts Theatre this upcoming season is A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. This Tony Award-winning musical is based on a novel that depicts the comedic journey of Monty Navarro as he attempts to secure himself earldom.
My Fair Lady is next in the season's line-up, telling the story of Eliza Doolittle, a girl hoping to transform into a lady by taking speech lessons from an arrogant professor. Through music and comedy, the play depicts her success and corresponding identity crisis.
A challenging and impressive piece by Steven Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, will take the stage at Westwego. Classified as a musical thriller, the audience will be introduced to an exiled barber returning to London for murderous revenge.
The theater also features an original show, A Mardi Gras Carol. Audiences can expect Mardi Gras and New Orleans culture to be told using structural elements from A Christmas Carol.
Audiences interested in hearing classic tunes should consider seeing The Marvelous Wonderettes. This comedy is a jukebox musical using various songs that were popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It follows four teenage girls as they perform at their Springfield High School prom, later reconnecting for their 10-year reunion.
In The 39 Steps, follow four actors in a musical and comedic depiction of an ordinary man becoming entangled in a spy ring. Two of these actors will take on various personas for a character-packed show of just four people.
The season concludes with Tootsie, a Broadway piece that was adapted from a novel and movie of the same name. The lead character is an aspiring actor pretending to be an actress in hopes of securing more roles. By disguising himself as a woman, audiences are taken through the comedic yet heartfelt journey of Michael Dorsey.
