“Explosive as a hand grenade of laughing gas, AIN’T NO MO’ is heady and hysterical and fiercely provocative!”—Variety
2023 Tony Nominee – Best Play!“The powers that be have reassured me there’s room for everyone” declares Miss Peaches, the drag queen flight attendant tasked with welcoming the entire Black population of the United States to Gate 1619 for a free one-way flight back to Africa. So begins an early scene in Jordan E. Cooper’s blisteringly funny satire, a series of sharp comic vignettes about Black American life, history, and identity. SpeakEasy Stage is proud to team up with the Front Porch Arts Collective to bring new life to this acclaimed show, one of the first productions since its groundbreaking Broadway run.
Content Advisory: Discussion and depiction of anti-Black racism, lynching, and police brutality. Some strong language. Recommended for Ages 16+
For sold out performances, there will be an in-person waitlist at the venue beginning two hours prior to curtain.
“Explosive as a hand grenade of laughing gas, AIN’T NO MO’ is heady and hysterical and fiercely provocative!”—Variety
2023 Tony Nominee – Best Play!“The powers that be have reassured me there’s room for everyone” declares Miss Peaches, the drag queen flight attendant tasked with welcoming the entire Black population of the United States to Gate 1619 for a free one-way flight back to Africa. So begins an early scene in Jordan E. Cooper’s blisteringly funny satire, a series of sharp comic vignettes about Black American life, history, and identity. SpeakEasy Stage is proud to team up with the Front Porch Arts Collective to bring new life to this acclaimed show, one of the first productions since its groundbreaking Broadway run.
Content Advisory: Discussion and depiction of anti-Black racism, lynching, and police brutality. Some strong language. Recommended for Ages 16+
For sold out performances, there will be an in-person waitlist at the venue beginning two hours prior to curtain.
SpeakEasy Stage is a non-profit theatre company located in the South End of Boston. Led by award-winning Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault, we produce 28 weeks of new plays and musicals each season at the Nancy and Ed Roberts Studio Theater in the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts.
SpeakEasy Stage Company
The Calderwood Pavilion; 527 Tremont St.
Calderwood Pavilion/BCA, 527 Tremont St
The Calderwood Pavilion contains the Wimberly Theatre, the Roberts Studio Theatre, the Carol G. Deane Hall, and the Nicholas Martin Hall. You should navigate to the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA if you are seeing a show in any of those aforementioned spaces.
