Art House Productions and Leah E. Jackson presents SHENANIGANS

Art House Productions (AHP) and Leah E. Jackson are proud to present the NJ premiere of SHEnanigans, the latest solo-show creation from AUDELCO award-winning performer, Helena D. Lewis. This Mother's Day weekend event will be held on Saturday, May 13th, 8:00 pm and Sunday, May 14th (Mother's Day), 3:00 pm at the West Side Theatre, 285 West Side Ave. Jersey City, NJ 07305, adjacent to the West Side Light Rail Station. Advance ticketing for General Admission is $20 and $25 at the door and $15 for Students/Seniors. There is a Mother's Day special of 2 tickets for $36. Tickets may be purchased at http://www.arthouseproductions.org.

After her mother's unexpected death, a devoted daughter struggles to adjust to her newfound matriarchal duties. An intimate, dramatic, and humorous look at love and life from a menopause baby who embraces her inherent dysfunction to care for her eccentric 82-year-old father and Smokey, the affable family pet.

Helena D. Lewis is an award-winning actress, poet, and playwright. Her one-person show, Call Me Crazy: Diary of A Mad Social Worker, chronicles her work in the social service field portraying twenty-five characters from pimps to menopausal women. Call Me Crazy has had over fifteen sold-out performances and was profiled on the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) SocialWorkersSpeak website and Rutgers Alumni Magazine.

Call Me Crazy is the winner of the AUDELCO 2014 Best
Solo-Performance Award, Best Short at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival in NY, and was festival Pick at the inaugural DC Black Theater Festival. Helena has also performed Call Me Crazy at the NASW-NJ 2012 Annual Conference, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Kumble Theater at Long Island University, Rutgers University School of Social Work Field Day, and was produced by Urbintel, Inc. in conjunction with the New York Public Library at the Schomburg Center in NY.

Lewis has performed at numerous universities and colleges across the country and has been featured in the Peabody Award Winning series, Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry.

Art House Productions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to the development and presentation of performing and visual arts programs in Jersey City, NJ. Art House presents theater, music, visual art, and dance programming as well as and the citywide arts festival, JC Fridays. For more information about our programs, please visit our website atwww.arthouseproductions.org.

For accessibility requests and inquiries, please contact info@arthouseproductions.org or call 201-915-9911.

Made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, A Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs/Tourism Development, and by the County of Hudson, Thomas A. DeGise, Hudson County Executive, and the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders.