Parallel Exit

Parallel Exit on Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 3:00 PM
Posted on 01/25/2023
The Washington Performing Arts Series will present Parallel Exit on Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 3:00 PM. This event, is being held at the Washington Area Performing Arts and Events Center in Hanson Auditorium. This Auditorium is attached to the high school at 1111 South Avenue B in Washington, Iowa. Tickets for this event are $20 for adults and $10 for college students. The event is free for students in grades K through 12. Parallel Exit is a New York City-based nouveau vaudeville company of three, mixing song & dance with slapstick physical comedy to produce a delightful show for any audience. Performing since 1997, Parallel Exit knows how to entertain. They perform a terrific show for the whole family – a fine way to have fun together while learning a bit about how the vaudeville circuit entertained a century ago. Each performer is experienced and talented in this genre and they work beautifully together. The New York Times says: “It’s an exhilarating locomotive of high spirits.” The program is sponsored by the Washington Performing Arts Series with the additional support of Hills Bank, the Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, Custom Impressions, Stairway to the Stars, KCII, and the Southeast Iowa Union. Additional funding was provided by Dave Stoufer and Rachel Nicola as well as Robert and Millie Youngquist.
Parallel Exit Press release

KIDS K-12 ARE FREE!

Take a step back in time to the old-fashioned family entertainment from the era of vaudeville. Washington Performing Arts is proud to provide an action-packed show filled with comedy, tricks, as well as song & dance for an afternoon’s entertainment. Parallel Exit will perform in the Hanson Auditorium of the Washington Area Performing Arts and Events Center, Sunday February 19, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. The Performing Arts Center is in the new high school at 1111 South Avenue B, Washington, Iowa.

Parallel Exit is a New York City-based nouveau vaudeville company of three, mixing song and dance with slapstick physical comedy to produce a delightful show for any audience. Performing since 1997, Parallel Exit knows how to entertain! They provide a terrific show for the whole family—a fine way to have fun together while learning a bit about how the vaudeville circuit entertained a century ago. Each performer is experienced and talented in this genre and they work beautifully together. “About Us” abridged from the Parallel Exit website: “Led by Artistic Director Mark Lonergan since its initial informal launch in 1997, Parallel Exit
engages in extensive artistic programming, artist capacity building, and youth education initiatives, throughout New York City’s five boroughs, across the United States, and in countries around the world.

“Parallel Exit creates compelling stories that are family-friendly, cultivating art that speaks to a
culturally boundless audience of any age. Productions have received both local and international praise for their inventiveness, energy, and originality, with presentations at such esteemed venues as at The New Victory Theater, The Lincoln Center Institute, 59E59 Theaters, The Duke on 42nd Street, Symphony Space, and PS 122 in New York; the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the UK (winning a Spirit of the Fringe Award); and dance festivals in Poland, Spain, Austria, and Japan. Following an extended 2014—2015 German tour in partnership with GOP
Variety Arts Theatre Circuit, Parallel Exit served as the powerhouse behind Big Apple Circus’s critically-acclaimed The Grand Tour (2015) — marking the beginning of a new chapter that radiates with excitement.”

This is a great family show enjoyed by all ages.

Ticket sales and more information are available at  www.washingtonauditorium.org.

This is just one of many shows Parallel Exit has on tour and three of many performers. For more
information go online to https://parallelexit.com
Video of them. https://vimeo.com/567176018