April 3-6, 2025
Unicycle: A Festival of Solo Shows
Yellow Bicycle Theater is fast becoming Philly’s go-to venue for solo artists. Since opening in 2023, we’ve hosted solo shows from Philly, Boston, Virginia Beach, Los Angeles, Portland, New York, you name it. Everything from fast-paced comedy (Lovefool by Michael John Ciszewski) and political commentary (Penis Envy by Becky Boncal) to solo improv (Noah’s No-Show Show by Noah Levine) and musical confessional (Up in the Air by former Animotion frontman Bill Wadhams).
We’ve hosted so many solo shows, we decided to start a festival. And what better time than Philly Theatre Week? And what better name than Unicycle? After all, a solo show is the art of balancing on one wheel.
Join us April 3-6 for 4 gravity-defying solo shows, from comedy and confessional to poetry and crime drama, plus a book launch!
“3 White Guys Named John” by Andrea Coleman
Thu 4/3 at 7, Fri 4/4 at 8:30, Sat 4/5 at 2
The fantastical and totally true story of how John Hughes, John Mayer and Jon Bon Jovi inspired Andrea Coleman, a Black woman from the South, to go where she felt terrified to go thereby altering the course of her life. The music and movies of three white guys named John transcended race and lived experience to act as Divine messengers leading Andrea on the path of her destiny dropping lyrical and cinematic breadcrumbs along the way.
“Gimme a Sign!” by Bailey Swilley
Sat 4/5 at 7, Sun 4/6 at 2, Sun 4/6 at 5:30
An autobiographical comedy based on a personal tragedy with a side of weird and funny family antics. The solo show combines standup and storytelling and explores the stages of grief and the search for signs from above. Come for the ghost tour with anecdotes about haunted tampons and annoying boyfriends, stay for the life lessons on self-acceptance and growing up.
“If It Bleeds It Leads” by Sean Allison
Thu 4/3 at 8:30, Fri 4/4 at 7, Sat 4/5 at 3:30
A two time college dropout from suburbia gets a job shooting breaking television news overnight in an auctioned off cop car during two of the most violent years in the history of New York City, forcing him to to confront the American caste systems of race, money and privilege.
“Poems on Gender” by David Lee Morgan, performed by Thoeger Hansen
Sat 4/5 at 8:30, Sun 4/6 at 3:30, Sun 4/6 at 7
The world’s oldest free speech platform, Speakers’ Corner once echoed with the voices of Karl Marx, George Orwell and Marcus Garvey. On a quiet morning in 2025, a poet mounts a soapbox to deliver forty minutes of intense, thoughtful poetry on sex, gender and revolution. Gender is a controversial and even dangerous topic today. All the more reason for each of us to speak about it with honesty, heart and intelligence.
“Five Plays” by Joshua Crone
Sat 4/5 at 5:30 (Book Launch, Free Admission)
“Five Plays” by playwright and screenwriter Joshua Crone spans a decade of writing and producing in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia. Join actor/director Thoeger Hansen of Night Cook Studio as he talks with Crone about the plays in the collection and the ideas and stories behind them. The book can be purchased in advance on Amazon or at the event, which will be streamed live on YouTube.