Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

Three hundred seats in a Jefferson Parish theater house means you see the actors sweat. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, at 325 Minor Street in Kenner's Rivertown district, stages musicals, comedies, and dramas year-round in an intimate room where productions consistently earn praise for quality rivaling professional theater. Ticket prices run significantly lower than New Orleans venues—this is Jefferson Parish's premier live theater, part of the Rivertown Historic District's cultural corridor.

New Orleans was the largest port in the Southern United States throughout the 19th century, exporting most of the nation's cotton and farm products to Western Europe and New England. That economic scale built a city with deep roots in performance—live music, conventions, Mardi Gras. Rivertown exists in that tradition's wider orbit, a venue where the work still matters because someone still builds the set, memorizes the lines, takes the stage.

The lobby gallery often features work by local visual artists. Go for a fall comedy or a spring musical. The intimacy is the point—you're close enough to see whether the actor believes what they're saying.