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Season 19: ALIVE
This season, Goat in the Road Productions brings stories ALIVE across stages, schools, historic spaces, and communities in New Orleans and beyond.
Young playwrights will see their words transformed into professional touring productions. Historic landmarks in New Orleans and Galveston will reveal the people and stories held within their walls through immersive audio. Audiences will step into another chapter of New Orleans history, while original GRP work travels from Louisiana to Dartmouth.
From youth-created theatre to immersive performance and audio storytelling, our 2026–27 season invites you to experience stories in unexpected ways.
Stories don’t stay on the page. History doesn’t have to stay in the past. Come hear it, see it, enter it, and experience it.
Season 2026-27
Beyond the Veil: Voices From the Ursuline Convent
Opening November 5, 2026
Old Ursuline Convent, New Orleans
Beyond the Veil is an interactive audio-visual exhibit exploring the first century of the Ursuline Sisters in New Orleans. Through personal narratives, portraits, artifacts, and immersive audio, visitors encounter five individuals connected to the Convent and gain a more intimate view of life in eighteenth-century New Orleans.
The Grand 1894 Opera House Audio Experience
Launching October 1, 2026
The Grand 1894 Opera House, Galveston, TX
Created by Goat in the Road Productions in collaboration with the House of Abundance, this immersive audio experience brings more than 130 years of The Grand’s history to life. Visitors can explore the performances, audiences, storms, restorations, and stories that have shaped this iconic Galveston landmark.
Halloween Bingo Night
October 30, 2026 | 6–9 p.m.
609 St. Ferdinand Street
GRP’s annual Bingo Night returns with a Halloween twist! Costumes are encouraged for an evening of games, community, and many, many rounds of bingo supporting Goat in the Road’s original productions and educational programming. Tickets range from $20–$60, and kids attend FREE.
Gallatin Alley
March 10–April 3, 2027
Saturn Bar, 3067 St. Claude Ave.
Gallatin Alley is an immersive murder mystery set in New Orleans’ notorious Gallatin Street vice district in 1867. Audiences follow John Baptiste Jourdain, the city’s first Black detective, as they move through the world of the play, uncover hidden conversations, explore secret spaces, and piece together the mystery for themselves.
Play/Write Showcases
April & May 2027
Greater New Orleans
The annual Play/Write program gives young writers the chance to see their work move from the classroom page to the professional stage. In spring 2027, GRP will present 24 student-written plays across three showcases, performed and produced by professional theatre artists.
Goat in the Schools
October–December 2026
Greater New Orleans schools
Celebrating its 10th year, Goat in the Schools transforms plays written by middle school students into fully realized professional productions. This fall, four student-written plays will tour 12 area schools, appear at the New Orleans Fringe Festival, and return for a summer tour to camps and libraries in June 2027.
Carlota
Spring 2027
New Orleans, Luling & Dartmouth
Carlota is an original bilingual musical that weaves the life and legacy of Carlota Ruíz de González, a fictional character rooted in Cuban and New Orleans history. Blending Afro-Cuban and Creole rhythms with intimate storytelling, the work explores memory, family, identity, and the stories that echo across generations.
Operating support for Goat in the Road is provided by the Rouse Family Foundation and the RosaMary Foundation as well as a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, and a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency.
