bobrauschenbergamerica
Written by Charles L. Mee
Directed by Eleni Papaleonardos
Oct. 29 - Nov. 14, 2026
Riffe Center Studio One
77 S. High St.
Columbus, Ohio
Presented in Honor of
Cynthia Anderson
Pay What You Want available at the door.
Schedule
Thursday, Oct. 29th @ 8pm
Friday, Oct. 30th @ 8pm
Saturday, Oct. 31st @ 8pm
Friday, Nov. 6th @ 8pm
Saturday, Nov. 7th @ 8pm
Sunday, Nov. 8th @ 2pm
Thursday, Nov. 12th @ 8pm
Friday, Nov. 13th @ 8pm
Saturday, Nov. 14th @ 8pm
Talkbacks:
After Thursday and Friday performances.
Reserve your seats now through the CAPA ticketing portal.
Featuring:
Drew Eberly – Allen
Jordan Fehr – Bob the Pizza Boy
Adam Humphrey – Wilson
David J. Glover – Carl
Brian Gray – Phil
Mallory Kassoy – Susan
Elena M. Perantoni – Phil's Girl
Ben Sostrum – Becker
Jeanine Thompson – Bob's Mom
Dakota Thorn – Roller Skater
Ellie Price - Stage Manager
Dave Wallingford – Production Manager / Sound / Projections
Duncan McKennie – Assistant Director
Brad Steinmetz – Scenic
Abbey Lynn Smith – Lighting
Jaylene Jennings – Costumes
Lonelle Yoder – Properties
Rockie Thompson – Assistant Stage Manager
Drew Eberly – Music Direction
Jeanine Thompson – Choreography
Jennifer Schlueter – Dramaturgy
Whitney Thomas Eads – Graphics
LEARN MORE
Matt Slaybaugh
bobrauschenbergamerica, as we did it 13 years ago.
ABOUT THIS PLAY
A beloved play from AVLT’s first decade returns for the 20th Anniversary Season. Written by the most influential playwright of the 21st century (about the dynamic American artist Robert Rauschenberg), bobrauschenbergamerica is a play made as one of America's greatest artists might have conceived it had he been a playwright instead of a painter.
Traveling through time, the play's kaleidoscopic images take us from Bob's childhood home to a New York café to the open road.
bobrauschenbergamerica is a collage of people and places and music and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and shootings and chicken jokes and golfing, and of the sheer exhilaration and anxiety of living in a country where people make up their lives as they go. It’s a play about freedom in art, art in America, and it reckons with the implications.
Photos from the 2013 production, by Matt Slaybaugh.
