BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY AND WHEELOCK FAMILY THEATER ANNOUNCE THE WORLD PREMIERE OF MFONISO UDOFIA’S KUFRE N’ QUAY
When:
Thursday, Jul 10, 2025 7:00p -
Saturday, Jul 26, 2025 9:00p
Thursday, Jul 10, 2025 7:00p -
Saturday, Jul 26, 2025 9:00p
Where:
Boston Arts Academy Main Stage Theater
174 Ipswich Street
Boston, MA 02215
Admission:
$20
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Event website:
https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/bostonarts/kufre-n-quay#
BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY AND WHEELOCK FAMILY THEATER ANNOUNCE THE WORLD PREMIERE OF MFONISO UDOFIA’S KUFRE N’ QUAY
Boston’s citywide Ufot Family Cycle continues with the fifth installment at Boston’s only public school for the performing arts
July 10 – 26, 2025
WHO: Boston Arts Academy and Wheelock Family Theater with support from The Huntington present the fifth installment of the Ufot Family Cycle, Kufre n’ Quay. Local youth and adult cast and crew, including 12 total students from Boston Arts Academy, will partake in the highly anticipated production. BAA’s award-winning Nigerian filmmaker, actor, and playwright John Oluwole Adekoje (Street Soldiers ; Hype Man) who is also a faculty member at BAA, will direct the production.
WHAT: Kufre n’ Quay, the fifth installment of playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s Ufot Family Cycle, tells the coming of age story of a 12-year-old African boy who arrives in New York’s Little Senegal and joins a youth center. Set in Harlem in 2019, Kufre, son of Iniabiasi and grandson of Abasiama, forms a friendship with an African American girl. The play explores the ways in which we navigate the contrast between African and Black American culture.
The Ufot Family Cycle is an unprecedented two-year city-wide festival where theatres and arts organizations around Greater Boston join to produce Mfoniso Udofia’s cycle of nine plays in partnership with universities, social organizations, non-profits, and a host of community activation partners. Kufre n’ Quay is produced by Boston Arts Academy in collaboration with Wheelock Family Theatre and with advisory support from The Huntington.
PERFORMANCE INFORMATION FOR KUFRE N’QUAY:
WHEN:
Performances: July 10 – 26, 2025
WHERE:
Presented by Boston Arts Academy at Boston Arts Academy Main Stage Theater
(174 Ipswich St. Boston, MA)
TICKETS:
- https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/bostonarts/kufre-n-quay
- Tickets start at $20.00
- 174 Ipswich Street Boston, MA. 02215
- 617-635-6470
- https://bostonartsacademy.org/
- Graphic and theater poster available upon request.
About the Boston Arts Academy: Founded in 1998 as the city’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts, Boston Arts Academy (BAA) has distinguished itself among urban public high schools as a leader in innovative and effective student-centered education. Consistently recognized locally and nationally for its achievements, BAA exemplifies the power of an arts-rich education and many BAA graduates have found success in college through the arts. In fact, for the past ten straight years, at least 97 percent of BAA graduates have been accepted to college, with most being first-generation college attendees. BAA’s dynamic program prepares graduates to be critical thinkers, effective communicators, collaborators, and creators. Students come from almost all of Boston’s 23 neighborhoods to receive the formal arts training and academic instruction that will make them Boston’s next generation of artists and cultural leaders.
In September 2022, the BAA community entered its new $125 million, 153,500 square foot facility. Among many highlights, it includes new and much-needed enhanced theaters, career center, academic classrooms, dance studios, music practice rooms and fashion technology studios and workspace. With the new school building, the number of students enrolled has increased to over 500, and will continue to grow to over 600 in the coming years. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and visit our website to learn more: https://bostonartsacademy.org/.
About the Boston Arts Academy Foundation: Established in 1999, the Boston Arts Academy Foundation is an independent 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization that raises essential funds from private philanthropic sources to augment the Boston Arts Academy school budget. The Boston Arts Academy Foundation helps bridge the gap between the school’s allocation from the Boston Public Schools and the true cost of a high-quality education that is both art-intensive and college-preparatory. Construction of the new BAA school building in 2022 does not change BPS’s funding formula, which does not fully cover the cost of a college preparatory academic program and a competitive arts program.
The Boston Arts Academy Foundation aims to raise $35 million through a multi-year, comprehensive Building Our Future campaign to augment BAA’s school budget and ensure long-term sustainability. Building Our Future will ensure that as BAA’s student body grows, students can become successful artists, scholars, and citizens. Visit our website to learn more: https://bostonartsacademy.org/foundation.
About Wheelock Family Theater: Wheelock Family Theatre at Boston University is the greater Boston area’s only professional theater offering a shared experience for the entire family. Founded in 1981, WFT's long standing commitment to equity, diversity, accessibility, and inclusion has garnered recognition and awards at the local and national levels. The theatre’s productions have served over half a million audience members, and WFT's education programs have provided hands-on training to tens of thousands of students across the state of Massachusetts.
About The Huntington: The Huntington is Boston, MA’s theatrical commons and leading professional theatre company. On our stages and throughout our city, we share enduring stories that spark audience and artist imaginations and amplify our community's wide range of voices. Led by Artistic Director Loretta Greco and Executive Director Christopher Mannelli, The Huntington welcomes broad and diverse audiences, changes lives through education and community programs, develops playwrights and new plays, and serves the local arts community by operating The Huntington Calderwood/BCA. The Huntington is the "motherboard" of the 2-year, city-wide Ufot Family Cycle, a nine-play cycle by playwright Mfoniso Udofia, bolstering our activation partners' creative process and success through resources and connection. huntingtontheatre.org
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