Jackson Heights 3AM
by Jenny Lyn Bader, J.Stephen Brantley, Ed Cardona Jr., Les Hunter, Tom Miller, Melisa Tien, and Joy Tomasko. Conceived and directed by Ari Laura Kreith.
A Bangladeshi cab driver working the night shift yearns for a woman who rises at dawn to bake bread but does not speak her language. A closeted policeman from Long Island comes into town for a date. Car dispatchers, sex workers, drag queens, gamblers, and insomniacs collide in the colorful world of Jackson Heights after hours.
by Jenny Lyn Bader, J.Stephen Brantley, Ed Cardona Jr., Les Hunter, Tom Miller, Melisa Tien, and Joy Tomasko. Conceived and directed by Ari Laura Kreith.
A Bangladeshi cab driver working the night shift yearns for a woman who rises at dawn to bake bread but does not speak her language. A closeted policeman from Long Island comes into town for a date. Car dispatchers, sex workers, drag queens, gamblers, and insomniacs collide in the colorful world of Jackson Heights after hours.
A sheer delight from beginning to end...adroitly captures the frenetic energy of a neighborhood often called the crossroads of the world...a quintessentially American story.
--Zachary Stewart, Theatermania
--Zachary Stewart, Theatermania
This play is packed with the kinds of characters rarely seen onstage.
--NYTheatre.com
--NYTheatre.com
Drag queens, rookie cops and prostitutes all com together in a new play based on what goes on in Jackson Heights after sundown.
--New York Daily News
--New York Daily News
