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The Asolo Repertory Theatre has continued its celebration of the American family with Amy Herzog's "soulful intergenerational play 4000 Miles, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist and 2012 Obie Award winner for Best New Play," the theatre has announced. The play will run through April 27 in the Historic Asolo Theater. Leo, a 21-year-old laid-back hippie, and his 91-year-old Jewish "old-school liberal grandma," Vera, are 70 years apart in age, but they find common ground in this com- edy/drama, a news release explains. After a 4,000-mile cross-country bicycling trip, "Leo unexpectedly shows up at his grandma's rent-controlled Greenwich Village apart- ment in the middle of the night with his bike, a backpack and no plan for his future," the release continues. "While he plans to crash for the night, he stays for weeks and, as roommates, Leo and Vera share their polar- izing views on love, government, technology, life and family," the release notes. "As a parent, there is a particular structure that one must follow, but as a grandpar- ent, there is this wonderfully freeing gap," said Tea Alagić, director of 4000 Miles, in the release. The play premiered at the Duke on 42nd Street in New York City as part of the Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3 Steinberg New Works Program, the release notes. Tickets for 4000 Miles start at $15, the release continues. To purchase them, call 351-8000, go online at asolorep.org or visit the box office in the lobby of the theatre at 5555 N. Tamiami Trail in the Florida State University Center for the Performing Arts in Sarasota. 4000 MILES CONTINUING AT ASOLO THEATER THROUGH APRIL 27 Sarasota News Leader April 18, 2014 Page 122