Press Releases
- Theatre Communications Group Announces THRIVE! Grants American Theatre - April 23, 2024
- Cambridge, Mass., Funds Theater Performances for ‘Exclusively Black Audiences’ by Meghan Blonder, The Washington Free Beacon - April 12, 2024
- At The Porch, Black artists have a communal stage to tell nuanced stories by Kana Ruhalter and Arun Rath, GBH News - March 1, 2024
- Boston's Front Porch Arts Collective aims to spotlight Black artists in theater by Paula Ebben, CBS News - February 26, 2024
- ‘We are our ancestors' wildest dreams’: Sharing stories from the African diaspora by Maurice Emmanuel Parent and Dawn Meredith Simmons, WBUR Cognoscenti - June 19, 2023
- Basic Black: Black theater spotlights stories of diversity by Basic Black, GBH News - May 12, 2023
- Front Porch Arts Collective Announces Bold + Collaborative 7th Season by A.A. Cristi, Broadway World Boston - May 3, 2023
- Front Porch Arts Collective and Huntington Theatre Co. launch partnership by Celina Colby, The Bay State Banner - August 19, 2021
- Huntington, Front Porch Announce Multi-Year Partnership American Theatre - August 10, 2022
- Front Porch partners with the Huntington Theatre with an aim toward becoming a sustainable Black arts organization by Terry Byrne, The Boston Globe - July 27, 2021
- Arts This Week: The Front Porch Arts Collective And 'Bending Lines: Maps And Data From Distortion To Deception' GBH News - June 18, 2020
- Cultivating the Next Generation of Critics by Pascale Florestal, HowlRound Theatre Commons - October 27, 2019
- Front Porch’s Theater for Actors of Color by Jared Bowen, Art New England
- Front Porch is building a home for artists of color by Terry Byrne, The Boston Globe - August 23, 2018
- Melanin magic by Celina Colby, The Bay State Banner - April 5, 2018
- Front Porch Collective Aims To Change Boston: ‘We’re One Of The Few Major Metropolitan Cities That Doesn’t Have A Black-Run Theater Company’ by Greg Cook, Wonderland - March 20, 2018
- New theater collective offers opportunities for minorities by Hannah Edelman, The Daily Free Press - November 16, 2017
- A New Boston Collective Wants To Combat Institutional Racism In Theater by Maria Garcia, WBUR Local Coverage - November 6, 2017
- Essays In Idelness by Larry Stark, Theater Mirror - March 17, 2017
The Porch Fam in the news
- Advancing Equity CMU alumnus Maurice Parent celebrates Black theater with Front Porch Arts Collective by Ann Lyon Ritchie, Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business - March, 2024
- The Black Playwrights’ Festival: Celebrating Black Artists, Stories, and Community by Vivienne N. Germain, Harvard Crimson - November 7, 2023
- Theatre Season by Joel Brown, BU Today - October 6, 2023
- One-Man Show about an Actor’s Time Teaching in Boston Schools Opens Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Season by Joel Brown, BU Today - October 6, 2023
- Artist Profile: Dawn M. Simmons on the Imagination and Joy in ‘K-I-S-S-I-N-G’ by Vivienne N. Germain, Harvard Crimson - March 8, 2023
- Review: 'Mr. Parent' a Lesson in the Joys and Terrors of Teaching | EDGE United States by Kilian Melloy, EDGE Media - February 9, 2022
- For one of the busiest people in Boston theater, a step back, and several steps forward by Terry Byrne, Boston Globe - September 23, 2021
- Co-Productions and Rethinking Leadership by Yura Sapi, HowlRound Theatre Commons - June 30, 2021
- Burning Down the Establishment One BIPOC Critic at a Time: A Profile of Pascale Florestal by Kitty Drexel, New England Theatre Geek - August 14, 2020
- 'Now You Will See Us' — Being Black In Boston Theaters by Cristela Guerra, WBUR Local Coverage - June 24, 2020
- In their own words: How five Boston arts leaders are meeting a precarious moment and facing the future by Don Aucoin, Boston Globe - May 7, 2020
- We Are the Next Generation of Critics by Beatrice Perez-Arche, HowlRound Theatre Commons - November 13, 2019
- For Once, I Experienced Theater With A Lot Of Other Black People In Boston by Arielle Gray, WBUR Local Coverage - October 30, 2019
- Maurice Emmanuel Parent on SpeakEasy Stage's Production of 'Choir Boy' by Kilian Melloy, EDGE Media - September 5, 2019
- The Power of Theatre: From Entertaining to 'Inspiring Radical Change' by Catherine Levine, Boston College The Heights - October 15, 2018
- Maurice Emmanuel Parent on Telling Stories from the Front Porch... Collective, That Is by Kilian Melloy, EDGE Media - December 1, 2017
