American Repertory Theater's pre-Broadway staging of 1776, co-directed by Diane Paulus and Jeffrey L. Page, opens on May 26. The musical revival is set to bow at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre in September before embarking on a 16-city national tour in February 2023.
“Not a thing more is needed from Porkalob as Rutledge. Local audiences may remember — they certainly should remember, if they saw it — Porkalob’s astonishing, ART-presented solo shows, “Dragon Lady” and “Dragon Mama.”
In a scene staged with chilling force by Page and Paulus, Porkalob commands the stage in “Molasses to Rum,” a cold-blooded evocation of the financial facts behind slavery and the hypocrisy of those who decry it but profit from it.” -BOSTON GLOBE
“Sara Porkalob, playing a pro-slavery delegate from South Carolina, wrests the focus back to the matter at hand by packing ample bite into "Molasses to Rum," which alludes to the North's full participation in the pernicious Triangle Trade.” -THEATREMANIA.COM
