September 12 - October 11, 2025

Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri | 7pm.
Sat | 3pm & 7pm
Sun | 3pm
(No Show Tues)
(Patron’ Night event on Sep 24 will begin at 6pm with cocktails, show at 6:30pm)

General Admissions: $40

Previews (Sep 12-17) : $30
Opening Night (Sep 18): $50, includes champagne reception
Patrons’ Night (Sep 24): $180, starts at 6pm! Includes cocktails before the show and dinner at nearby restaurant after the show.
Student Rush: $15 with Student ID, 15 mins before show.

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• The runtime is 2hrs & 10mins with a 15min intermission

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

Opening Night (Sep 18): $50, includes champagne reception

Patrons’ Night (Sep 24) | 6pm: $180.
Includes cocktails at 6pm, show at 6:30pm and dinner at OCabanon (245 W 29th St, New York, NY 10001) after the show.

Sunday Hootenannies (Sep 21, Sep 28 & Oct 5, after Sunday matinees):
The Porch on Windy Hill is having Hootenannies immediately after our Sunday matinees (9/21st, 28th & 10/5th) 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!

Talkbacks

Mon, Sep 22 - Musician, actor, playwright, director, and noted authority on Woody Guthrie, David M. Lutken, discusses the history of folk and bluegrass music with Hubby Jenkins, banjo, guitar, and ‘bones’ player, and an incredibly knowledgeable historian of American folk music (hubbyjenkins.com)

Thurs, Oct 2 - Talkback with Dr. Andy Teirstein, Professor Emeritus at NYU, author and composer of numerous works, and an encyclopedia of history and information about Folk Music around the world.

Wed, Oct 8 - A Conversation about Biracial Identity in America
With Tora Nogami Alexander, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Greg Pak and Rebecca White of the Halfie Project (thehalfieproject.com)

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. 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, and Anything Goes. 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 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 Award nomination), Washington D.C. (Helen Hayes Award nomination), 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 (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 (Co-writer, performer, and 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. He performed the role of The Balladeer in Benjamin Britten’s opera 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, and has been featured 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 extensively throughout the U.S., the U.K., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, 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: (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.com Much love to my friends, family, and Justin for their constant support.