OK New Orleans, it's time to go see a play
My tremendous friend Kevin Smith is returning to the stage this weekend after a 20-year absence and New Orleans you are the fortunate host.
On Friday night the Crescent Theater Collective is staging Parallel Lives at the Shadowbox Theater. Parallel Lives was written by Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy in 1989. Here's an excerpt from the Crescent Theater Collective:
In the start, while the earth is without form, and void, two Supreme Beings meet to devise the advent of the sector with the enjoy of two barely acerbic interior designers decorating a cut up-stage at the Upper East Side. Once they've decided on the coloration scheme of the races (a touch concerned that white humans will experience slighted being this type of dull color) they create intercourse and the sexes. Afraid girls can have too many advantages, the Beings decide to make childbirth painful and to present men good sized ... Egos ... As reimbursement.
From this moment on, writers Kathy and Mo whisk the target audience thru an outrageous universe of gender-benders suffering through the commonplace rituals of cutting-edge existence: dating, mating, dealing with guilt, bar life, slash life, sex, intercourse, intercourse. With boundless humor, Parallel Lives examines the continued quest to locate parity and love (yes, love) in a competition handicapped by using capricious Supreme Beings.
Parallel Lives will have its Gulf Coast premiere on April 1st (no kidding) at The Shadowbox Theatre and run for three weekends. Local actors C. Patrick Gendusa and Kevin Smith share an engaging sense of creativity as they switch roles and, occasionally, sexes. Glenn Meche artfully directs this series of satirical sketches that will leave you giddy with laughter all the way home. You can buy tickets prior to the show from Eventbrite . It's killing me that I can't be at Kevin's premiere tomorrow night but hopefully some of you out there can be. The show will play tomorrow, 4/1 and then continues on 4/2, 4/7, 4/8, 4/9, 4/14, 4/15, and 4/16. All performances start at 8pm and the show runs for two hours.
I've seen Parallel Lives performed before, though regretfully never with Mr. Smith in a lead role. It's hilarious and well worth a night out. So come on New Orleans, go out and support The Arts in the Crescent City.
The Shadowbox Theater is at 2400 St Claude Ave New Orleans, LA and here's a map:
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Go and tell Kevin I said hello. Again, buy tickets here .