(THEATER) Trigger Kids, by solo performer Joe Von Appen, is a morbidly comic tour of American desire and delusion: glue sniffers, gun toters, angry service workers, derisive elementary school teachers, giant black birds circling commuters on the freeway. You realize, while watching him be a stoned dude talking to a security guard or a kid shooting at a satellite dish with a pistol, that Von Appen is one hell of an actor. (Consolidated Works, 500 Boren Ave N, 800-838-3006. 8 pm, $6–$12.)
Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua.... More by Brendan Kiley