On Sunday I went to the Kirk Douglas Theater in Culver City to see "In the Continuum."
It's a show written and performed by two women -- Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter. They developed it during their third year in NYU's Graduate Acting Program. And can they act!
It's two parallel stories -- one is about a Zimbabwe newscaster who catches HIV from her husband and finds out when she also learns she's pregnant. The other story is about an African-American young woman in Los Angeles who also gets HIV and is pregnant from her boyfriend.
Given the topic, I was expecting a real tear-jerker. It wasn't. But it was a fascinating set of portrayals of these two different women in similar circumstances and the women who surround them in their lives.
Tonight I saw a funny little movie called "Coffee Date." It's about a guy who is set up on a blind date by his brother. But his brother neglects to tell him the date is with another guy. The situation gets out of hand when his Mother (played by Sally Kirkland) flies in to support him coming out and refuses to hear his pleas that he's straight. The office gang shows their support and his boss points out the firm's domestic partnership policies -- so what's a poor straight guy to do?
Wilson Cruz and Jason Stuart both have the chance to show off their acting chops.
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