The name of the play is Standing Clear and it bills itself as a comedy about the distance we put between us on the subway. This makes me think of the portraits that Ed Velandria creates on the subway.The people always look they are in their own worlds and disconnected from those around them. 

The show, Standing Clear, is the latest original work from Coffee Cup, a theater company who did another piece called Turning Tables (about restaurants, perhaps?) The show is playing at the Access Theater, 390 Broadway (at White Street). For more information and tickets, go to smarttix.com
                                                                   

Here’s the blurb: Their latest physical comedy, Standing Clear, is an ensemble piece that digs deep into the personalities we commute with each day. Have you ever imagined what a stranger’s life was like? Pressed right up against each other, but miles away, what happens when we let the strangers we see every day affect us? An ode to the NYC subway, Standing Clear shines a spotlight on the fleeting moments that we rarely recognize as being key to the essential beauty of New York.