{"id":2432894,"date":"2026-05-26T15:57:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2432894"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:57:04","slug":"baton-rouges-mid-city-live-returning-on-friday-night-entertainment-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/baton-rouges-mid-city-live-returning-on-friday-night-entertainment-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Baton Rouge’s Mid City Live! returning on Friday night | Entertainment\/Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Could Baton Rouge Mayor Sid Edwards be the next big thing on the Baton Rouge comedy scene?<\/p>\n

The audience will get a glimpse of his humorous side when Edwards guest-stars in the next edition of \u201cMid City Live!\u201d<\/a> at 7 p.m. Friday at the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center, 233 St. Ferdinand St. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cMid City Live!\u201d is a comedy\/variety show combining stand-up, skits and music.<\/p>\n

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The mayor will take part in the skits and a special musical number. He’ll be joined by local comedians Kenneth \u201cJestkinni\u201d Austin, Stephanie Calero, Chris \u201cBird\u201d Culotta, Marielle \u201cMighty\u201d King, Gloria McConnell Passman, Will Merrill and Jay Thibodeaux.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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The \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d-inspired event was first performed in March 2023. Subsequent sold-out shows were presented at the Boomerang Comedy Theatre and Manship Theatre’s Hartley\/Vey Theatre, as well as at Cit\u00e9 des Arts, Lafayette, and Library Riot, Lake Charles.<\/p>\n

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The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and 225 Theatre Collective are collaborating on and will benefit from the proceeds of Friday’s event. The lineup will include original cast members, guest performers and a live DJ. It’s produced by Black Dress Productions, founded by Passman.<\/p>\n

Reserved tickets are $30 and available at https:\/\/www.225theatrecollective.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.theadvocate.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Could Baton Rouge Mayor Sid Edwards be the next big thing on the Baton Rouge comedy scene? The audience will get a glimpse of his humorous side when Edwards guest-stars in the next edition of \u201cMid City Live!\u201d at 7 p.m. Friday at the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center, 233 St. Ferdinand St. Doors open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2432896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Baton-Rouges-Mid-City-Live-returning-on-Friday-night.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432897,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432894\/revisions\/2432897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}