Doubt, A Parable

Doubt exquisitely explores uncertainty and how we each face difficult decisions.

In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students. Doubt, A Parable is the recipient of the 2005 Tony Award® for Best Play and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Prepare for your visit to Le Petit Theatre for Doubt by reading the play’s preface, written by the author, John Patrick Shanley. Read it HERE.

“All the elements come invigoratingly together like clockwork in John Patrick Shanley’s provocative new play, DOUBT, a gripping story of suspicion cast on a priest’s behavior that is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty. Something rare for this season: a laudable new American play.” – Variety

“How splendid it feels to be trusted with such passionate, exquisite ambiguity unlike anything we have seen from this prolific playwright so far. Blunt yet subtle, manipulative but full of empathy for all sides, the play is set in 1964 but could not be more timely. In just ninety fast-moving minutes, Shanley creates four blazingly individual people. DOUBT is a lean, potent drama…passionate, exquisite, important and engrossing.” – Newsday (NY)

“A beautifully balanced drama. Shanley is a writer working at the top of his craft, making the most of a muted but evocative palette in the pursuit of truth’s shadows. Here, for the first time in a long time, is a play that is about something.” – Chicago Tribune

“An eloquent and provocative investigation of truth and consequences. A gripping mystery, tightly written.” – Time Out New York

Rehearsal photos:

L-R: Leslie Nipkow, Elizabeth McCoy

David Lind

L-R: Leslie Nipkow, Queen Shereen Macklin

Executive Producers for Doubt, A Parable

Katherine and Tony Gelderman

Brenda and Michael Moffitt

Associate Producers

Maggie and Jay Bourgeois

Lorraine Smiley

This play contains some adult themes.

Run Time: Approximately 90 minutes without intermission.

Groups of 10 or more receive a 20% discount. For group sales use code GROUP before choosing your seats where it says “Apply Promo Code” or contact the Box Office at boxoffice@lepetittheatre.com or 504.522.2081 x1. You can also click here to have the discount directly applied.

Programming is supported in part by The Adelaide Wisdom Benjamin Foundation, Joy and Boysie Bollinger, The Rosemary B. and Brunswick G. Deutsch Foundation for Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, The Favrot-Van Horn Fund, The Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation, The Le Petit Theatre Endowment Fund from the Greater New Orleans Foundation, The Harold W. Newman Endowment Fund, The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Inc., The New Orleans Recreation and Culture Fund, The New Orleans Theatre Association (NOTA), The Elizabeth Porch Schwartz Endowment Fund, The Selley Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and WWNO 89.9 FM.