Things My Mother Taught Me is a loveable evening of live theater

Tehachapi Community Theatre offers heart, humor and sentiment in their new true-to-life comedy.

It's Gabe and Olivia's move-in day. Olivia Keegan (Emily Stults) is an energetic, neat – verging on OCD – architect, and Gabe Lawson (Kendric Bertram) is a kind, good-natured writer. They've just packed up all of their belongings and driven halfway across the country, to start a new life together, in Chicago. Their moving day doesn't go exactly as planned and things become slightly more complicated when all of their parents show up, unannounced, to help! Olivia's parents, Karen Keegan (Jackie Walters) and Carter Keegan (Bert Roper), and Gabe's parents, Lydia Lawson (Sue First) and Wyatt Lawson (Guy Martin), are only there to help. But, can a two bedroom apartment contain all of the love, laughs, worry and wisdom that's about to happen? Tamar Asatryan rounds out the comedic cast playing Polish born Max Mirowski, their new building super.

This comedy takes a generational look at relationships and how sometimes parents are passing their best lessons on to their children without even meaning to. Funny and touching, this comedy will make you laugh out loud and fall in love all over again. Kenny Chugg and Opal Lawler are co-directing "Things My Mother Taught Me", this superbly written story about love and family which is guaranteed to leave young and old with smiles, because we all have mothers.

Playwright Katherine DiSavino all but "grew-up" in the theater as her parents own a dinner theatre outside of Philadelphia where Katherine spent most of her formative years learning colorful words from actors and hiding underneath sets. This childhood provided Katherine with a keen understanding of the theatrical market for audiences west of the Hudson River, which has certainly helped with the wide-spread popularity of her shows.

Performances of TCT's Things My Mother Taught Me are Friday and Saturday evenings March 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28 at 7:30 p.m., doors opening at 7 p.m., with Sunday matinees on March 22 and 29 at 2 p.m., doors opening at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are available online at http://www.tctonstage.com and at TCT ticket outlets.