
Wed thru Sat @ 8:00pm
Tues @ 7:00pm
Sun @ 3:00pm
423 West 46th Street
(betw 9th and 10th)
by Mike Lew
directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Featuring Vandit Bhatt, Jessica DiGiovanni, Melanie Nicholls-King, David Shih, Marilyn Torres, Tom White, and Landon G. Woodson
Set by Andrew Boyce, costumes by Melissa Schlachtmeyer & Amy J. Pedigo, lights by Matthew Richards, and sound design by Jill BC Du Boff.
Winner of the Kendeda Grad Playwriting Competition!
Bike America is a wildly theatrical picaresque journey that crams the entire continent onto one stage. The play unfolds as a cross-country bike trip from Boston to California, with stops in big cities and small towns along the way. Our feckless heroine Penny is looking to bring more meaning into her life, to find a lifestyle that suits her and a town that feels like a home... so she drops her clingy boyfriend in Beantown and takes off for Santa Barbara! Along the way she befriends a colorful crew of bikers: Ryan, the health nut biking instructor; Tim Billy, the innocent wanderer; Annabel and Rorie, the badass activists seeking to get gay-married in every state they hit on the trip; and the mysterious Man with the Van who carries their stuff.