Cadel: Lungs on Legs, the solo play in which Connor Delves rides the 2011 Tour de France live on stage, is heading to New York. It will have its US premiere Off-Broadway at the MMAC Theatre from March 30 to May 8, 2027.
The dates and venue were reported by WhatsOnStage; the production has not yet posted them itself, though the show’s own website already asks New York audiences to sign up to hear when tickets go on sale. The MMAC Theatre is the 199-seat Off-Broadway house inside the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center at 248 West 60th Street.
For Delves, who wrote the play with Steve McMahon, it is something of a homecoming. Raised in Perth, Western Australia, he has lived in New York for 12 years. The piece premiered at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, toured Australia, including the 2026 Adelaide Fringe, and is now in the last days of a five-week London season at Riverside Studios that ends November 15. London Box Office reviewed the Riverside run. An Australian tour follows in early 2027. By the production’s count, Delves has now played it more than 150 times and pedaled over 2,500 miles without leaving the stage.
The subject is Cadel Evans, who in 2011 became the first Australian to win the Tour de France. Delves stays in the saddle for the whole show, riding a yellow BMC race bike of the kind Evans took to victory, while video, design and race commentary from Phil Liggett, for decades the voice of the Tour, recreate three weeks of racing. Cycling runs in the family: his parents owned a bike shop, his mother was a triathlete, and his father raced internationally alongside Evans in the 1990s.
Evans has backed the project from the outset. “Connor’s vision for this show is bold and exciting, and I’m thrilled to be involved from the start,” he said ahead of the London season.
Mark Barford directs and serves as dramaturg. The design team is Imagine Black (production design), Mitchell Fenton (lighting), Lauren Cochrane (video) and Nate Edmondson (composition and sound), with Mecca Christy as assistant stage manager.
The New York run is presented by Cadel the Play LLC in association with Anant Das and Nina Jack. Ticket details have not been announced; updates will appear on the show’s official website.
