Sex Lives of Our Parents to Kick Off Second Stage Uptown’s Summer Series

Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre has announced two world premiere comedies as part of the company’s ninth annual Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre on the Upper West Side.

First up in the season will be Michael Mitnick’s Sex Lives of Our Parents, which will premiere on June 7 and run through July 3, directed by Davis McCallum. Sex Live tells the story of Virginia, who is faced with ghosts of her mother’s past as her wedding day approaches, and is a provocative comic nightmare about the mysterious hollows between parents and children and things that may be better left unsaid.

Next up will be Anna Kerrigan’s The Talls, directed by Carolyn Cantor, which will run August 1-27. The coming-of-age dramedy centers on the 17-year-old Isabelle Clarke and her family, dealing with Catholicism, politics and virginity in the 1970s. Casting and creative team for both shows has yet to be announced.

Created as a program to help develop and provide exposure for the voices of a new generation of theater artists, the Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series seeks to develop the skills of emerging playwrights, to provide early-career artists with the support of a major artistic institution and to create new plays for the American theater.