Set against the backdrop of 1960's D.C., Smoke explores love, found family, motherhood, and healing.
When Janet Howard and her son decided to move into her grandmother’s home on H Street, she didn’t expect her life to change. After meeting the infamous singer Josephine St. Croix, a reintroduction to an old flame, and developing a friendship with their white neighbor, they find the secrets they’ve tried to bury threaten to tear them apart. This piece invites audiences to examine what it means when the community we build could be our saving grace.

Join The Theater Offensive for their pre-show altar building, honoring our elders before and after us, as well as past and future versions of ourselves.
Folks are encouraged to leave offerings, written messages, and/or make prayer. This altar will stay up through the duration of our week of programming at all of the spaces we inhabit for people to visit during our events, before transferring to TTO’s Boylston Blackbox in the Fenway.