Cakewalk

If you're in the Philadelphia area this weekend, you may want to check out a staged reading of "Cakewalk," a new play by Tom Minter. It's the very funny (and perhaps also very sad) story of a young man who finds himself pregnant (or, maybe, dying, depending on whether you view it as a fantastical story or a story about fantasy, or something like that):

What do you do when you know you’re pregnant and everyone else thinks you’re not?

Paul, a struggling twenty-something actor, refuses to give up his certainty to the skepticism of his doctors, his sister and his lover.

Set in New York, Brooklyn, and the far reaches of the Midwest, farce mixes with fantasy, fear and family into an investigation into the limits of love.

Anyway, it's a lovely play, one which I hope you'll have the chance to see someday in a full production. This weekend's readings are, hopefully, a step in that direction. And, as I said, it's very funny.

Oh, and it's free. Which is always good.

The readings are at 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at the Walnut Street Theater, which is, um, on Walnut Street (at 9th). Sunday's reading will also feature ASL translation.

I'll be there, reading a bunch of the smaller parts, so if you come please be sure to introduce yourself afterward.