2022 - 2023 season
CHICKEN & BISCUITS
By Douglas Lyons
Directed by Lyndsay Allyn Cox
The Modern Theatre
In Partnership with Suffolk University
December 9, 2022 - January 8, 2023
Set in the Church, the Jenkins family is coming together to celebrate the life of their father — hopefully without killing each other. But any hopes for a peaceful reunion unravel when a family secret shows up at the funeral. Can Reginald deliver a sermon that would make his father-in-law proud? Can sisters Baneatta and Beverly mourn their father without laying hands? Can Kenny and Logan be their authentic selves in the wake of a traditional matriarch and who is that woman in the back? All will be revealed in this hilarious and heartwarming comedy by Douglas Lyons.
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
By Lenelle Moïse
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons
The Calderwood Pavilion/BCA
In Partnership with the Huntington
March 3, 2023 - April 2, 2023
Meet Lala, who makes fine art on the back of pizza boxes. A sweet and sticky summer inspires her to romance Dani, a budding feminist and Albert, his smooth-talking twin. What’s good? Love or lust? Either way, she’ll find her muse.
By Lenelle Moïse
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons
The Calderwood Pavilion/BCA
In Partnership with the Huntington
March 3, 2023 - April 2, 2023
Meet Lala, who makes fine art on the back of pizza boxes. A sweet and sticky summer inspires her to romance Dani, a budding feminist and Albert, his smooth-talking twin. What’s good? Love or lust? Either way, she’ll find her muse.
The Front Porch Arts Collective’s Reading Series - Staged Readings of the Work and Writers Who Inspire Us
X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation
By Marcus Gardley
Directed by Brandon Green
February 19th at 4pm
Location: Emerson Paramount Center Jackie Liebergott Black Box
559 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111
The assassination of Malcolm X—both the story we think we know and illuminating details that have seldom been shared—is brought to vivid, lyrical life in
award-winning writer Marcus Gardley’s new play. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar provides a framework for Gardley to deepen our understanding of one of
America’s most complex, compelling historical figures and explore the tumultuous landscape of ideology and activism in the 1960s.
By Marcus Gardley
Directed by Brandon Green
February 19th at 4pm
Location: Emerson Paramount Center Jackie Liebergott Black Box
559 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111
The assassination of Malcolm X—both the story we think we know and illuminating details that have seldom been shared—is brought to vivid, lyrical life in
award-winning writer Marcus Gardley’s new play. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar provides a framework for Gardley to deepen our understanding of one of
America’s most complex, compelling historical figures and explore the tumultuous landscape of ideology and activism in the 1960s.
Lovely Hoffman Presents…Nina: The Voice of a Movement
Conceived and Written by Lovely Hoffman and Brandon German
Coming May 2023
"Lovely Hoffman Presents…Nina: The Voice of a Movement," a storytelling of live music and singing that shares the story of Nina Simone, whose music was the soundtrack of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement. The performance includes many of her most thought provoking songs that exposes the treatment of African-Americans in the United States during the 1950s and 60s. The production features renditions of I Wish I Knew How It Feels To Be Free, Why? (The King of Love Is Dead), Four Women and Mississippi Goddam.
Past Readings Include:
Exception to the Rule
By Dave Harris
Directed by Donovan Holt
October 30th at 4pm
The Calderwood Pavilion
How do you make it through detention? In the worst high school in the city, six Black students are stuck in Room 111. They flirt. They fight.
They tease. Should they follow the rules and stay put, or find an escape? Are the walls keeping them in, or are stronger forces at play?
Invisible
By Douglas Lyons
Directed by Tinashe Kajese-Bolden of Alliance Theatre
December 11 at 7pm
The Calderwood Pavilion
Invisible tells the story of lifelong best friends, Eemani and Jade, who decompress one afternoon over a good blunt.
Unbeknownst to them the blunt is laced with much more than weed, spiraling the duo into a wild hallucination that allows them to confront the
oppressors of the past, dead on.
Originally commissioned by Queens Theatre, The Porch is proud to be a part of the development of this audacious new work!
"Invisible" features:
Shannell Villegas - Eemani
Kelsey Ferdinand - Jade
Bridgette Hayes - Susan/Isabella Willwright
Greg Maraio - Harold/Theodore Willwright
Anthony Goss - Alick Willwright/King
Sandra Seoane - Seri - Understudy Eemani/Jade
Ethan Pakchar - Composer
Brendan Doyle - Sound Design
Elizabeth Ramirez - Stage Manager