Two local students, Ricky Watson Jr. of East St. John High and Dean Wray of Destrehan High, will perform in New Orleans Center for Creative Arts student production of John Millington Synge’s Irish comic masterpiece, “The Playboy of the Western World” at NOCCA’s Nims Black Box Theatre, 2800 Chartres St., New Orleans. Performances run Jan. 25-28, 7 p.m., with an additional 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, Jan. 28.