January 25 to March 8, 2026

Mon, Wed, Thurs*, Fri | 7pm.
Sat | 3pm & 7pm
Sun | 3pm

-No Show Tues
*Thurs, March 5th performance will start at 3pm instead of 7pm. 

General Admissions: $50
VIP Tickets (includes tote bag & reserved seating): $65

Student Rush: $15 with Student ID, 15 mins before show.

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• The runtime is 2hrs & 10mins with a 10min intermission

• Latecomers will not be seated until after the first two scenes, approximately 10 minutes after the performance begins. Thank you!

TALKBACKS:

FOLK MUSIC BREAKING BARRIERS
A talkback with Cole Quest, Tara Mei Smith, and Dr. Andy Teirstein
After March 4 | 7pm show.

Cole Quest is a New York City–based songwriter, vocalist, and resonator guitarist whose work bridges original music and the American folk tradition. The grandson of Woody Guthrie, he leads Cole Quest and The City Pickers and performs in the harmony duo Christian & Cole, crafting songs that blend humor, heart, and a thoughtful awareness of the world around him. Outside of music, Cole serves as Director of Engineering at Animoto, where he builds teams and creative tools that help people tell their stories. Tara Mei Smith is connected to the porch music of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia through 7+ generations of her family. After a period of estrangement, she is now reconnecting with her musical legacy through the Brooklyn folk scene.  Dr. Andy Teirstein is a multi-platform artist: a composer, teacher (currently in NYU Prison Education Program), performer, writer, filmmaker, and producer. A student of Leonard Bernstein and Henry Brant, Teirstein composes for concert hall, film (BBC, PBS), theater, and dance.  His work has been described by The New York Times as "magical."

Kira Grunenberg | Talkback, after Feb 7 | 3pm show. A New York-based music journalist and founder of Throw the Dice and Play Nice — a site dedicated to changing how we embrace music and the arts. Her writing has been featured through the likes of The Bluegrass Situation, DownBeat Magazine, No Depression, Off Your Radar, and countless music startups.

Jo Brook | Talkback, after Feb 12 | 7pm show. A NYC-based actor, singer and bluegrass fiddler. Jo Brook is a Montana native, Hard of Hearing artist, activist, and the founder of the all-female bluegrass collective The Snowy Mountain Sisters.

SUNDAY HOOTENANNIES:

After Sunday matinees (Feb 1, Feb 15, Feb 22, March 1, March 8): The Porch on Windy Hill is having Hootenannies immediately after our Sunday matinees at American Whiskey, 247 W. 30th St. It’s free and open to all - 5:45 to 7:00 p.m. Bring your instrument, come sing along. Join in the fun! There will not be a Hootenanny on Feb 8

Developed during the pandemic by its director and original team of actor-musicians: Sherry Stregack Lutken, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse and David Lutken, The Porch on Windy Hill premiered at Ivoryton Playhouse in Connecticut in 2021, where it received four CT Critics’ Circle Nominations, including Outstanding Director (Sherry Lutken), Outstanding Actor in a musical (David M. Lutken), Outstanding Actress in a musical (Lisa Helmi Johanson), and Best Ensemble. The show has since traveled across the country, with acclaimed productions at Northlight Theatre in Chicago, Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Massachusetts, Weston Theater Company in Vermont, and People’s Light in Pennsylvania. Each production has deepened the play’s unique blend of Appalachian music and the multi-generational tale of a family broken by intolerance and ignorance, uncovering the hope of redemption and understanding.

SHERRY STREGACK LUTKEN (Co-writer/Director) directed the world premiere of The Porch on Windy Hill at the Ivoryton Playhouse (Ct. Critics’ Circle Best Director nom.). Her Off-Broadway and Regional directing and choreography credits include The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Million Dollar Quartet, Almost Heaven, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Stand By Your Man, Stars in Your Eyes, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Hopscotch, Anything Goes, and more. In 2009, she directed the first regional theater production of Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash at North Carolina’s Flat Rock Playhouse, and has since staged many productions of the show across the U.S. and abroad, including at Vienna’s English Theatre (European Premiere) and Munich’s Deutsches Theater. As Associate Director of Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie, she has set productions in Chicago (Joseph Jefferson Best Musical nom.), Washington D.C. (Helen Hayes Best Musical nom.), Florida, Pennsylvania, and the show’s first national U.K. tour.

LISA HELMI JOHANSON (Co-writer)is a multi-hyphinate who has a passion for developing new works and pursuing intentionality in representation to further the work of racial justice and social equity. Broadway: POTUS Select Off-Broadway/NYC: DRAG: The Musical, Avenue Q, Einstein’s Dreams (OC), The Drowning Girls, Rescue Rue (OC). Tours: Fiasco’s Into the Woods, Avenue Q. Select Regional: Anything Goes (Arena Stage), Vietgone (Denver Center), The Chinese Lady (Milwaukee Rep; Best Actress award – Milwaukee Broadwayworld), Amadeus (Syracuse Stage), Once (Cape Playhouse), Waterfall (5th Avenue Theatre & Pasadena Playhouse), A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre), 4,000 Miles (St. Louis Rep.). Film/TV: “Law & Order,” “A Holiday Spectacular” (Hallmark Channel), “Law & Order: SVU.” As a playwright, Lisa has co-written Kim Loo Gets a Redo,The Porch on Windy Hill, and was a semi-finalist with the O'Neill Musical Theater Conference with a new musical in development called Zitkala Sa's Astonishing Wild West with collaborator Lizzie Hagstedt. Also in development with collaborator Drayton Alexander is: Aygoo, Jinjja / Oh my God, Really? @hurricanhelmi

MORGAN MORSE (Beckett, co-writer/performer) is an actor, musician, and writer originally from Connecticut. Theatre credits include Southern Comfort (The Public Theater), Once (Cape Playhouse, Ivoryton Playhouse, Maltz Jupiter Theatre), Bright Star (Arrow Rock Lyceum), Hank Williams: Lost Highway (Ivoryton Playhouse), Almost Heaven: John Denver's America (Weston Playhouse, Riverside Theatre) Hester Street (Theater J), and Ring of Fire (venues from Houston, TX to Vienna, Austria). In 2020, he began creating music and comedy content online, gaining a following on TikTok and Instagram (@themorsecoda on both). He also writes and performs original non-comedy music! More info at morganmorse.com. 

DAVID M. LUTKEN (Edgar, co-writer, music director) is an award-winning actor and musician whose Broadway credits include Inherit the Wind, Ring of Fire, The Civil War, and The Will Rogers Follies. For NYCO, he sang the role of The Balladeer in Paul Bunyan at Lincoln Center, and has appeared Off-Broadway in Woody Sez, Southern Comfort, Stars in Your Eyes, Winter Man, and The Portable Pioneer and Prairie Show. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Cooper Union, 92nd Street Y, the Ryman Auditorium, on "NPR", "Voice of America", "BBC", "ORF" (Austria), "Polskie Radio Troika" (Warsaw), and "The Louisiana Hayride". David devised the critically acclaimed Woody Sez: The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie, which has toured the U.S., the U.K., Europe, the Middle East, and China, earning numerous accolades including the Edinburgh Fringe Critic’s Pick, Brighton Festival Argus Angel Award (Best Musical), Joseph Jefferson and Helen Hayes Awards (Best Actor), and nominations from the London Evening Standard, Off-Broadway Alliance, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League.

TORA NOGAMI ALEXANDER: (Mira) (She/Her) - New York: Twelfth Night (The Acting Company) We Do The Same Thing Every Week (Attractive Nuisance) Regional: Almost Heaven (Weston Theater Company), The Importance of Being Earnest, The Rewards of Being Frank, Kindred Spirits (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company) The Heart of Robin Hood, Richard II (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival) Tour: 1984, The Odyssey (Aquila Theatre) TV/Film: “Rise.” Website: www.toraalexander.comMuch love to my friends, family, and Justin for their constant support.