Tickets are NOW ON SALE for East Coast Premiere of My Home on the Moon by Minna Lee, directed by cara hinh.
From the windows of a run-down pho restaurant, Mai watches her neighborhood get gentrified, storefront by storefront. Just as the restaurant is doomed to close, a mysterious tech consultant arrives, helping Mai put the noodle shop on a path to glory. But as Mai discovers the truth of this delectable new reality, she is taken on an unexpected adventure full of Vietnamese cuisine, love, and corrupt technology.
🍜 My Home on the Moon 🌙May 23 – June 13
📍 Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theatre
🎟️ Tickets are Pay-As-You-Are because access matters.
My Home on the Moon is produced as a part of CHUANG Stage’s LaunchPad theatre residency at @boscenterforarts
Poster Art by: Emily Chau
Tickets are on sale now at the link in bio!
Tickets are on sale now! After our successful community tour we are so excited for the staged reading of Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson by Diana Khổng and directed mica rose.
1973. Two sisters are torn apart after one makes the decision to leave; and the one who remains must learn to fight.
2004. Three siblings are avoiding the question of where to scatter their mother’s ashes. One finds refuge in gambling sessions with the neighborhood aunties. One falls in love. And one learns from a goblin that her mother is trapped in the underworld. She follows her down, and time collapses.
Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson follows the women of a Vietnamese family across two generations, unraveling the imperialist legacy of partition during the Vietnam War.
☔️ Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson ☀️May 1 – May 10
📍 Boston Center for the Arts, Black Box
🎟️ Tickets are Pay-As-You-Are because access matters.
Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson is presented by CHUANG Stage and Fresh Ink Theatre, BCA LaunchPad theatre residency at @boscenterforarts
Tickets on sale in bio!
Show art: Abby Kesselman
We are thrilled to announce CHUANG Stage's full 2025-2026 season line up!
After this fall's sold out run of @mfudofia 's The Ceremony, we are excited for the East Coast Premiere of My Home on the Moon by @ih8minna and directed by @carahinh - an adventure full of Vietnamese cuisine, love, and corrupt technology (poster art by @chauwithmee !)
This spring, we will continue developing new work after our success with our Boston Chinatown: Stories on Our Streets with two locally grown stories! A co-production with @freshinktheatre for a Community Reading Tour and Workshop of Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson by @dianawalksearth , and a special gallery exhibit and staged readings of Busing the Buffer Zone: Chinatown Mothers Boycott Forced Busing During Boston's Desegregation Crisis by Christina R. Chan at @paoartscenter .
Excited about what's ahead for CHUANG Stage? There's still time to donate to CHUANG Stage and help us hit out $30k goal this year - click the link in our bio to help continue uplifting Asian American stories!
We are so excited to announce the official Culinary Partner of My Home on the Moon is Lê Madeline @lemadelinerestaurant ! The co-founder and executive chef, Peter Nguyen @peeetahhhhh , will be joining us for select performances with tastings and family meals.
Look for the official community engagement calendar coming soon!
Peter Nguyen is a Boston native, James Beard Semifinalist Chef, and Co-Founder of Lê Madeline, where he is praised for bringing an experimental edge to traditional Vietnamese fare. Lê Madeline’s highly acclaimed modern Vietnamese cuisine is featured on The New York Times’ top 25 best restaurants of Boston, Time Out Worldwide, and Boston Magazine’s Top 50 Restaurants of 2025.
🍜 My Home on the Moon 🌙May 23 – June 13
📍 Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theatre
🎟️ Tickets are Pay-As-You-Are because access matters.
My Home on the Moon is produced as a part of CHUANG Stage’s LaunchPad theatre residency at @boscenterforarts
Join NAAC and some of Boston’s most talented theater trailblazers of color for a compelling conversation around the state of BIPOC-led Theatre. What does it take in 2026 to head a theater organization built around marginalized communities? How do you build an audience around a diaspora while keeping a welcoming environment for everyone? How do you maintain funding during cuts to DEI-centered programming? What do arts administrators emerging and seasoned in the theater field need to know? What has changed in the work and what are we envisioning for the future? Hear this and more from leaders from Front Porch Arts Collective, CHUANG Stage, Teatro Chelsea and The Theater Offensive on May 19 at Deane Hall at the Calderwood!
Doors are at 6:30 and the panel starts at 7 PM, snacks and drinks will be provided. This event is free, but registration is required, so we have a headcount! RSVP link in bio!
CHUANG Stage has been the talk of theatre pages this spring! We are honored to have been featured in American Theatre Magazine @americantheatremag , The Dramatist @dramatistsguild , and The Boston Globe @bostonglobe this past spring.
From sharing insights of starting small theatre companies, to making world premieres in Boston's fringe theatre scene! We’re proud to keep creating theatre that challenges, connects, and celebrates our communities. We can't wait for you to see what's next for CHUANG Stage! ✨
All of these are now available to read online!
Things are cooking up here at CHUANG Stage! 🥘🥘 Check out some behind the scenes moments for the East Coast Premiere of My Home on the Moon by Minna Lee, directed by cara hinh. We are so excited to see you soon. Tickets are selling fast!
From the windows of a run-down pho restaurant, Mai watches her neighborhood get gentrified, storefront by storefront. Just as the restaurant is doomed to close, a mysterious tech consultant arrives, helping Mai put the noodle shop on a path to glory. But as Mai discovers the truth of this delectable new reality, she is taken on an unexpected adventure full of Vietnamese cuisine, love, and corrupt technology.
🍜 My Home on the Moon 🌙May 23 – June 13
📍 Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theatre
🎟️ Tickets are Pay-As-You-Are because access matters.
My Home on the Moon is produced as a part of CHUANG Stage’s LaunchPad theatre residency at @boscenterforarts
Tickets are going fast! Get them at the link in bio!
Photos by: Jenine Jacinto
Tonight is the night! We are so excited to open Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson by Diana Khổng and directed by mica rose.
1973. Two sisters are torn apart after one makes the decision to leave; and the one who remains must learn to fight.
2004. Three siblings are avoiding the question of where to scatter their mother’s ashes. One finds refuge in gambling sessions with the neighborhood aunties. One falls in love. And one learns from a goblin that her mother is trapped in the underworld. She follows her down, and time collapses.
Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson follows the women of a family across two generations, unraveling the legacy of partition after the imperialist violence of the Vietnam War.
☔️ Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson
☀️May 1 – May 10
📍 Boston Center for the Arts, Black Box
🎟️ Tickets are Pay-As-You-Are because access matters.
Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson is presented by CHUANG Stage and Fresh Ink Theatre, BCA LaunchPad theatre residency at @boscenterforarts
Tickets on sale in bio!
Photos by @frenchsfotos
With opening just around the corner (TOMORROW NIGHT, 5/6!), we're so excited to share who is on our creative team for CHUANG Stage and Fresh Ink Theatre's work-in-progress staged reading of Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson! 💌
Our amazing team:
Playwright: Diana Khổng
Director: mica rose
Dramaturg: Gaven Trinidad
Lighting Designer: Alayo Oloko
Sound Designer: Katie Kuan-Yu Chen
Production Designer: Ollie Bandong
Tickets are on sale at the link in our bio!
We CAN'T WAIT to see you there! ❣💫
Check out this first look of Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson! After a successful weekend of previews, we cannot wait to open this Wednesday. This weekend only- get your tickets now before it’s too late at the link in bio!
1973. Two sisters are torn apart after one makes the decision to leave; and the one who remains must learn to fight.
2004. Three siblings are avoiding the question of where to scatter their mother’s ashes. One finds refuge in gambling sessions with the neighborhood aunties. One falls in love. And one learns from a goblin that her mother is trapped in the underworld. She follows her down, and time collapses.
Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson follows the women of a Vietnamese family across two generations, unraveling the imperialist legacy of partition during the Vietnam War.
☔️ Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson
☀️May 1 – May 10
📍 Boston Center for the Arts, Black Box
🎟️ Tickets are Pay-As-You-Are because access matters.
Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson is presented by CHUANG Stage and Fresh Ink Theatre, BCA LaunchPad theatre residency at @boscenterforarts
Tickets on sale in bio!
Photos by: @frenchsfotos
Every other week, we’ll be featuring one of our A4 Arts Fund awardees and the incredible work they do for AAPI communities. This week’s featured awardee is @chuangstage !
Founded in 2018, CHUANG Stage is Boston’s first and only non-profit, professional Asian American theatre company dedicated to building radical access to the arts for Asian American and multilingual immigrant communities. Since 2021, CHUANG Stage has been a resident company at the historical Boston Center for the Arts, providing a professional platform for Asian American artists while engaging working-class neighborhoods with high AAPI immigrant populations, including Chinatown, Dorchester, and Malden.
CHUANG Stage removes barriers to arts participation and reimagines theatre as a tool for justice and collective racial healing through their Pay-As-You-Are pricing model (starting at $0), multilingual programming, and community-designed events. Their two-show season centers the breadth and nuance of contemporary Asian American experiences through world premieres, playwright residencies, and translingual storytelling.
In the 2024-25 season, CHUANG Stage employed over 100 local AAPI artists and reached more than 5,000 audience members, with 12% attending Boston theatre for the first time and 21% identifying as first-generation immigrants. This impact reflects their mission in culturally grounded, radically accessible programming.
#chuangstage #Boston #AsianAmericanart
Mark your calendar! On 9 May, CHUANG Stage and Fresh Ink Theatre present a staged reading of a new Vietnamese play, Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson, written by Diana Khổng and directed by mica rose.
The reading will be followed by a special post-show conversation, Investigating Vietnamese Diasporic Theatre, featuring playwright Minna Lee and cara hinh of My Home on the Moon, as well as playwright Diana Khổng.
Check it out at the link in our bio!
