Season 14 – 2025
CHICKEN & BISCUITS CAST
Baneatta Mabry ANGELIQUE FEASTER EVANS
Reginald Mabry ROBERT S. BLUE
Kenny Mabry ADARIAN D. WILLIAMS
Logan Leibowitz DESTIN BASS
Beverly Jenkins BARBARA HOLMES
La’Trice Franklin JADE DOSSETT
Simone Mabry EMILY MWAKITAWA
Brianna Jenkins ANGELA LACEY
ABOUT CHICKEN & BISCUITS
Opened: December 27, 2024
Closed: December 29, 2024
Location: Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
In 2021, Shreveport’s own Zhailon Levingston made HISTORY, becoming the youngest black director EVER on BROADWAY. This Christmas, he brings his history-making Broadway comedy home to Shreveport!
Can rivaling sisters Baneatta and Beverly bury their father without killing each other? This proves difficult when Beverly shows up to the chapel with her “blessings” on display. Meanwhile, Baneatta’s son brings his neurotic Jewish boyfriend along, knowing Baneatta disapproves, and Beverly’s nosy daughter keeps asking questions no one wants to answer. Baneatta’s pastor husband tries to mediate the family drama, but when a shocking family secret reveals itself at the pulpit, the two sisters are faced with a truth that could either heal or break them.
Written By | DOUGLAS LYONS
Direction | ZHAILON LEVINGSTON
Scenic Design | SETH TAYLOR
Lighting Design | SAMUEL COPELAND & DANIEL SALAZAR
Costume Design | JARED WATSON
Sound Design | MIKAH THOMAS
SIX CAST
Catherine of Aragon ANNASYN BURLISON
Anne Boleyn CAROLANNE ADAMS
Jane Seymour DAISY RUSSELL
Anna of Cleves CLAIRE KEVIL
Katherine Howard MIA KIIHNL
Catherine Parr ELIZABETH SHOUP
King Henry NATE BOKENFOHR
Page Boys MORGAN MEYER, IORWERTH TRACEY
Ladies-in-Waiting ZOË BROWN, EMMY BUCHANAN (u/s Howard), CHARLOTTE DYMOND (u/s Boleyn), GRETA EDWARDS, RAY EVANS (u/s Cleves), SARAH JACKSON (u/s Aragon), EVA KLEINPETER (u/s Parr), OLIVIA MITCHELL, ANA MUROV, KASYN NAVARRE, MILLIE OAKES, CAROLINE SCHOONOVER, AVA SMITH, BELLE ST. AMANT (u/s Seymour)
ABOUT SIX
Opened: May 30, 2024
Closed: June 1, 2025
Location: Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
Divorced, beheaded, LIVE! From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebration of 21st-century girl power! This new original musical is the global sensation that everyone is losing their head over.
Written By TOBY MARLOW & LUCY MOSS
Direction | JARED WATSON
Choreography | KAITLYN BROWN & ANNE PETERSEN
Musical Direction & Scenic Design | SETH TAYLOR
Lighting Design | KENNEDY WILCHER
Costume Design | CANDY HUGGINS
Sound Design | BARRY BUTLER
HAIRSPRAY CAST
Tracy Turnblad HANNAH WALLACE
Corny Collins CALEB WILLIAMS
Edna Turnblad TREY JACKSON
Penny Pingleton MIA KIIHNL
Velma Von Tussle AMELIA OSBORN
Amber Von Tussle ANNASYN BURLISON
Link Larkin CHARLIE ROPPOLO
Seaweed J. Stubbs JA’SIAH JACKSON
Little Inez ANNABELLE JOHNSON
Motormouth Maybelle BARBARA HOLMES
Wilbur Turnblad DANIEL SALAZAR
Female Authority Figure JENNIFER JACKSON
Male Authority Figure JIM COWLES
Dynamites JOI GIBSON-STONE, KIMBERLY JOHNSON, TIERRA WILLIAMS
Ensemble TIANNA ANDREWS, AVERY AVANT, NATE BOKENFOHR, JADE BROSSETT, EMMY BUCHANAN, NICHOLAS COSBY, KAROLINE DUFFY, GRACE EASTWOOD, FORDHAM HAMMOND, EMERSON JONES, KADEN JONES, CLAIRE KEVIL, EVA KLEINPETER, BRYANNA LACEY, MILES MAINIERO, CELESTE MALMAY, MORGAN MEYER, DEVYN PROKOPF, AVA SMITH, KEZIA SWINNEY, IORWERTH TRACEY
ABOUT HAIRSPRAY
Opened: July 17, 2025
Closed: July 20, 2025
Location: Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
The 1950s are out, and change is in the air! Hairspray, winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, is a family-friendly musical, piled bouffant-high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs.
Music | MARC SHAIMAN
Lyrics | MARC SHAIMAN & SCOTT WHITMAN
Book | THOMAS MEEHAN & MARK O’DONNELL
Based on the New Line Cinema Film, written and directed by JOHN WATERS
Originally Choreographed for Broadway by JERRY MITCHELL
Direction | JARED WATSON
Choreography Adapted & Re-Staged | KAITLYN BROWN & JARED WATSON
Musical Direction | ROBERT CRUZ
Scenic Design | SETH TAYLOR
Lighting Design | DANIEL SALAZAR
Costume Design | ERIN ANDERSON-HICKEY & CANDY HUGGINS
Wig & Makeup Design | AMELIA OSBORN
Sound Engineer | BARRY BUTLER
THE SHARK IS BROKEN CAST
(in order of appearance)
Roy Scheider LOGAN SLEDGE*
Richard Dreyfuss PAUL PETERSEN
Robert Shaw YOUREE McBRIDE JR.
*Mr. Sledge appeared courtesy of, and by special arrangement with, Actors’ Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers in the USA.
ABOUT THE SHARK IS BROKEN
Opened: August 15, 2025
Closed: August 17, 2025
Location: Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Production on JAWS is delayed…again. The film’s lead actors—theater veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots, Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider—are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic…if it doesn’t sink them all.
A New Play By | IAN SHAW & JOSEPH NIXON
Direction | JARED WATSON
Scenic Design | SETH TAYLOR
Lighting Design | SAMUEL COPELAND
Production Manager & Costume Design | CANDY HUGGINS
