Running With Scissors returns to Hogwalla county for a musical celebration of turkey, tinsel, and trailer parks in…

GRENADINE MCGUNKLE’S DOUBLE-WIDE CHRISTMAS!
A high camp holiday musical extravaganza
Fridays and Saturdays, December 2 – 24 at 7pm
One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse Street

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All seats: $20

Note: The Mystic Krewe of Satyricon will host the opening performance on Friday, December 2.
For tickets to that show only, please call 504 525 4498.

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Haul out the holly, the ham hocks, and the hairspray, y’all: after a two-year hiatus, Running With Scissors is moseying back to the Everlasting Arms Motor Park for another heaping helping of holiday hijinks in Grenadine McGunkle’s Double-Wide Christmas!

It’s seven o’clock on Christmas Eve, and the unofficial queen of the trailer park, Grenadine McGunkle (Dorian Rush), is running around like a chicken with her head cut off. Company’s due to arrive in less than an hour for Grenadine’s interfaith potluck barbecue, and our poor little ol’ gal hasn’t even started the green bean casserole yet!

Will Grenadine’s neighbors, Madge and Helen (Elizabeth Pearce and Jack Long), lend our heroine a hand? Did Grenadine’s cousins/step-sisters Crystal and China (Lisa Picone and Ashley Ricord) really get run out of Branson, Missouri? Why has Mrs. Finkelstein (Brian Peterson) been spending so much time down at Hooters? Has Punkin (Brad Caldwell) finally found true love? And land sakes, where is Mailman Johnny’s (Bob Edes Jr.) ex-wife shacking up? Find out this December as Running With Scissors makes a mad dash for musical merriment at One Eyed Jacks!

Grenadine McGunkle’s Double-Wide Christmas features:

Dorian Rush as Grenadine McGunkle, maven of the motor park
Elizabeth Pearce as Madge McGillicuddy, nicotine aficionado and accompanist
Lisa Picone & Ashley Ricord as Crystal & China, alleged entertainers
Bob Edes Jr. as Mailman Johnny Shoemake, who delivers the mail
Jack Long as Helen Highwater, a girl who should really know better
Brad Caldwell as Punkin, a confirmed bachelor
Brian Peterson as Gladys Finkelstein, everyone’s favorite neighbor

Grenadine McGunkle’s Double-Wide Christmas plays at 7pm on December 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, and 24 at One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse Street, in the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter. All tickets are $20 (general admission) and can be purchased by clicking here or by calling 504 606 9903.

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All seats: $20

THE GOLDEN GIRLS
Six shows only!
Thursday, October 20 at 8pm
Friday, October 21 at 8pm & 10pm
Saturday, October 22 at 8pm & 10pm
Sunday, October 23 at 6pm
All tickets $25

Southern Rep, 365 Canal Street, 3rd Floor, Shops at Canal Place
Call 504 522 6545 or VISIT SOUTHERNREP.COM TO ORDER TICKETS NOW!

New Orleans legend Ricky Graham joins Running With Scissors’ own Brian Peterson, Butch Caire, Jack Long, and Dorian Rush, plus San Francisco’s acclaimed Heklina and Cookie Dough to present The Golden Girls! We’ve cracked open the vault and pulled out two classic episodes of the long-running TV show, and we’re performing them onstage as part of The City Series at Southern Rep, located on the 3rd floor of the Shops at Canal Place.

Spend an evening with us and relive the comic highs and fashion lows of the 1980s: the floral prints, the pastels, the sequins (oh, God, the sequins!). And we promise with twice the Cosby sweaters and twice the laughs.

If you saw our Golden Girls production from 2010, you know the high-camp hijinks we’ve got in store. But remember: these shows are likely to sell out early, so please order your tickets in advance!

Tickets are $25 and can be purchased by calling 504 522 6545 or visiting  www.SouthernRep.com. (Let us validate your parking ticket, and you’ll pay just $2 for four hours of parking in the Canal Place garage.)

Purchase tickets now: CLICK HERE!

Opening at K-Joe’s restaurant in the French Quarter July 15, New Orleans Down the Hatch: A Cabaret in Two Cocktails celebrates the history of New Orleans through an evening of song and tasty cocktails. The show, nominated for the Big Easy Award for Best Cabaret in 2010, stars some Running With Scissors regulars, including Big Easy Theatre Person of the Year Bob Edes and New Orleans culinary historian Elizabeth Pearce. Tinkling the ivories, you’ll find the lovely and talented pianist Jim Walpole.

First opening last year at Le Chat Noir, Bob and Elizabeth take the audience through the history of New Orleans as told through two of its signature drinks: the Sazerac and the Hurricane. Audience members will enjoy each drink while hearing about the people that gave the city its distinctive character, the abundant speakeasies during Prohibition, and how a lack of whiskey during WWII led to the creation of one of New Orleans most popular drinks. Audiences are sure to be delighted by this show, which Will Coviello of the Gambit dubbed “a gleeful celebration of all things alcoholic…effortlessly entertaining.”

The show will run Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm from July 15 through July 23 at K-Joe’s, 720 St. Louis in New Orleans’ historic French Quarter. Tickets are $25 and includes a free Sazerac and Hurricane for each audience member.

Purchase tickets now: CLICK HERE!

(Note: tickets can also be purchased at the door, pending availability.)

Want more info? Check this video clip taken from a performance at Le Chat!

About the cast

A regular on New Orleans’ stages, Bob Edes is one of the Crescent City’s most sought after actors. He has been awarded multiple Big Easy Best Actor Awards and was named 2010 New Orleans Theater Person of the Year. He frequently performs with the Running With Scissors theatre company.

Elizabeth Pearce is a culinary historian, regularly giving presentations and tours showcasing New Orleans history. She directs the hearth cooking program at the Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses in the French Quarter and is a Senior Curator at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. She is also a member of Running with Scissors theatre company.

Jim Walpole is a classically trained pianist. He has performed in and directed musical events in theatres and other venues throughout New Orleans. Since 2003, he has served as President of Guild of Le Petit Theatre de Vieux Carre, one of the oldest theatres in the United States.

Purchase tickets for “New Orleans Down the Hatch” now by clicking here!

Running With Scissors presents…
MILDRED DEAREST
A side-splitting send-up of mommies, daughters, dirt, and dry cleaners

June 10 – 26 at Cabaret Le Chat Noir
Visit www.CabaretLeChatNoir.com or call 504 581 5812!

Clean your rooms and scrub those floors: Running With Scissors declares war on dirt and dull evenings with a knock-down, drag-out tribute to one of Hollywood’s greatest legends in MILDRED DEAREST!

Thirty years after the hammy, glammy movie debut of Christina Crawford’s tell-all memoir, MOMMIE DEAREST, Running With Scissors brings Joan Crawford back to life in a comedy about Tinseltown’s hardest-working actress. At the ripe old age of 38, Joan is faced with a shrinking number of roles and an ego that just keeps growing. Finally, she catches a break and scores the lead in MILDRED FIERCE — a role that’s sure to win her an Academy Award. But the shimmer of Joan’s Oscar statuette soon tarnishes, and no amount of scrubbing can restore its sparkle.

Gasp in horror as Joan tries to fill the void in her life with babies and beefcake (not necessarily in that order)! Sob as she showers daughter and son with love and party dresses, only to be shunned! Will Joan manage to stay astride the bucking bronco of superstardom? Or will she end up bitter and abandoned on a beach somewhere in Southern California? Tune in this June and find out!

THE IMPORTANT STUFF

MILDRED DEAREST stars Brad Caldwell, Jack Long, and Lisa Picone, with Dorian Rush as Christina and Brian Peterson as Joan Crawford. Costumes are by Kent Roby, props by Liz Zibilich, video by Todd Perley, and sets by Brad Caldwell. The show was adapted by the cast from the movie MILDRED PIERCE (the 1945 original, obviously), the book and movie MOMMIE DEAREST, and a handful of well-known Hollywood flicks — with and without Miss Crawford.

MILDRED DEAREST runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 6pm, from June 10 – June 26. All performances are at Cabaret Le Chat Noir, located at 715 St. Charles Avenue, in the heart of New Orleans’ arts district. (Off-street parking is available.) Tickets are $26 Fridays and Saturdays or $21 Sundays, and can be purchased at www.CabaretLeChatNoir.com or by calling 504 581 5812.

(NOTE: The opening performance on Friday, June 10 is hosted by the Mystic Krewe of Satyricon. For tickets to that performance only, please call 504 525 4498.)

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Naughty but nice: ‘Snow Girls’ strips away holiday tradition

At a time when theater-goers can go into sugar shock from overdoses of the sugarplum dreams of “Nutcrackers,” and the syrupy sweetness of too many Tiny Tims, leave it to the madcap geniuses of the Running With Scissors troupe to offer a twisted take on Christmas cheer.

With “Snow Girls,” now playing at Southern Rep, the troupe has created another original, hysterically funny parody of a tarnished rhinestone of pop culture, the notoriously bad “Showgirls,” the 1995 disaster that destroyed starlet Elizabeth Berkley’s career. While that film had Berkley’s character clawing and sleeping her way to the top from seedy strip joints to top Vegas showcases, “Snow Girls” puts its dancers around another pole – the North Pole….

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Remember, folks: just nine performances! (HINT, HINT.)

Running With Scissors presents…
SNOW GIRLS
A parody of life on the pole

December 3 – 19 at Southern Repertory Theatre
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Strap on your snowshoes and warm up those jazz hands: Running With Scissors invites you to spend your holidays on the pole with SNOW GIRLS!

A parody of the so-terrible-it’s-fabulous 1995 movie SHOW GIRLS, SNOW GIRLS follows one brave, ambitious woman on her quest for fame, fortune, and an igloo to call her own. Watch as our heroine, Nomey, braves ice floes, polar bears, and Elvis impersonators to reach the shiny, shimmery, oh-so-wintry North Pole. But life in the big city isn’t all popsicles and snow-cone stands — the town is littered with wannabe stars, all craving the warm glow of the Northern Lights! But Nomey has an advantage over them: drive and ambition. And really good hair.

Armed with just a switchblade and a dream, Nomey starts her climb to the top, boldly strutting across the backs of her competition. She dodges the advances of creepy gingerbread men, wise-cracking reindeer — even the villainess of all villainesses, Miss Krystal Berger! But will one holly, jolly man prevent Nomey from reaching the summit she longs for? Or will he meet the fate of every other ho-ho-ho who stood in her way? Bundle up, tune in, and find out!

THE IMPORTANT STUFF

SNOW GIRLS stars Bob Edes Jr., Kyle Daigrepont, Armando Leduc, Jack Long, Lisa Picone, Dorian Rush, with Brian Peterson as Nomey. The show was adapted by the cast from the movie SHOW GIRLS, Rankin-Bass holiday specials, and the poetry of Jewel. Well, two of the three…

SNOW GIRLS runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 6pm, from December 3 through December 19. All performances are at Southern Rep, located on the third floor at The Shops at Canal Place. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at www.SouthernRep.com or by calling 504 522 6545.

(NOTE: The opening performance on December 3 is hosted by the Mystic Krewe of Satyricon. For tickets to that performance only, please call 504 671 7410.)

Southern Rep offers parking validation, which allows guests to park in the Canal Place garage for up to four hours at a cost of $2.

Yes, for just two tiny weekends, we’re bringing Running With Scissors’ special brand of zaniness to the cozy confines of Cabaret Le Chat Noir. We’re cramming two shows into just seven days, and we’re SUPER excited about both, so please join us!

NEW ORLEANS DOWN THE HATCH: A CABARET IN TWO COCKTAILS

September 24, 25, 26
Friday and Saturday at 8pm  • Sunday at 6pm ($20)
All tickets: 20

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Back by popular demand! Join Big Easy Theatre Person of the Year (and Running With Scissors stalwart) Bob Edes Jr. and New Orleans chef/author (and one of our excellent Andrews Sisters) Elizabeth Pearce as they recount the story of New Orleans in spirits and songs! From the sazerac your great-great-grandparents drank to the hurricanes that barely legal types guzzle on Bourbon Street, New Orleans is a city defined by its fortifying adult beverages. Sing and sip along as pianist Jim Walpole joins Bob and Elizabeth for an intoxicating adventure. Includes a complimentary taste of featured cocktails.

THE GOLDEN GIRLS

September 30, October 1, 2, 3
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm • Sunday at 6pm
Special 10pm performance on Friday, October 1
All tickets: $25

CALL 504 581 5812 TO ORDER TICKETS NOW!
Note: The Mystic Krewe of Satyricon hosts the opening night performance on Thursday, September 30. For tickets to that show only, call 504 671 7410

Varla Jean Merman joins Running With Scissors’ own Brian Peterson, Dorian Rush, and Bob Edes Jr., plus San Francisco’s acclaimed Heklina and Cookie Dough to present The Golden Girls! Relive the magic of the 1980s — the floral prints, the pastels, the wicker — with twice the Cosby sweaters and twice the laughs. You’ll guffaw your way through two of the best episodes the four blowzy broads ever filmed, and we don’t fast forward through the commercials, either.

JULY 30 & 31

NEW ORLEANS DOWN THE HATCH: A CABARET IN TWO COCKTAILS
Two shows only: July 30 & 31 at 8pm • Tickets: $20
CALL 504 581 5812 OR CLICK HERE TO ORDER TICKETS NOW!

Join Big Easy Theatre Person of the Year (and Running With Scissors stalwart) Bob Edes Jr. and New Orleans chef/author (and one of our excellent Andrews Sisters) Elizabeth Pearce as they recount the story of New Orleans in spirits and songs! From the sazerac your great-great-grandparents drank to the hurricanes that barely legal types guzzle on Bourbon Street, New Orleans is a city defined by its fortifying adult beverages. Sing and sip along as pianist Jim Walpole joins Bob and Elizabeth for an intoxicating adventure. Includes a complimentary taste of featured cocktails.

AUGUST 6, 7, 8

THE REALLY DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES OF STEPFORD PARISH
Three shows only: August 6, 7, 8
Fri/Sat at 8pm ($26) • Sun at 6pm ($21)
CALL 504 581 5812 OR CLICK HERE TO ORDER TICKETS NOW!

Pull out the potholders and the Lemon Fresh Pledge: for one hilarious weekend, Running With Scissors returns to the community of Stepford, Louisiana — a place where the loafers are light, the cosmos are crisp, and wives watch for waxy yellow buildup. Don’t miss these three final performances of the hit comedy that Gambit Weekly called “a Captain and Tennille-powered gas. When these Northshore hausfraus say ‘I’ll just die if I don’t get this recipe,’ they ain’t kidding.” Starring Kyle Daigrepont, Bob Edes Jr., Brian Peterson, Dorian Rush, and Michael Sullivan.

We’ll see y’all at Le Chat Noir!
715 St. Charles Avenue • New Orleans • 504 581 5812