Two solo comedies by our betters to the north. First: Boat
Load, by Ontario’s Jayson McDonald, about a desperate actor and a
very sick cat. Second: Boom, by Bellingham’s Andrew Connor,
about a nostalgic bomb maker and his fraught relationship with
his hometown. Connor is the taller and more agile half of the Cody
Rivers Show, who’ve been shortlisted for a Stranger Genius Award.
If Boom is only half as funny as Cody Rivers, it will still be
twice as funny as anything else. (Theatre Off Jackson, 409
Seventh Ave S, 800-838-3006. 7 pm, $15.)

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....