The Bushwick Starr is thrilled to present the world premiere of [PORTO] by Kate Benson and directed by Lee Sunday Evans, their follow-up to the Obie Award-winning A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes.

A woman, Porto, walks into a bar in a gentrifying neighborhood of a major city a lot like Bushwick. She is known there. This bar has serious food. Doug the Bartender serves up a mean cocktail. Hennepin, a hot guy and new to the bar, deliberates: mango thai or foie gras sausage? Doug the Bartender settles the debate. Porto's friend Dry Sac, beautiful and bitter, arrives: Dry Sac eats nothing and drinks vodka by the gallon. Porto notices Hennepin. Hennepin does not notice Porto. Hennepin notices Dry Sac. Hennepin and Doug the Bartender discuss Dry Sac. Hennepin notices Porto. Raphael the Waiter falls in love with his own dream of the ideal woman.

Good times ensue, wrapped in a casing of food, sex, booze, and books. Gloria Steinem and Simone de Beauvoir visit Porto in the early morning to discuss feminism and the proper way to conduct an affair. Doug the Bartender and Dry Sac are up to something. We all want love, sex, and good food: but is it possible to enjoy the sausage once it is known how it is made?

[PORTO] stars Noel Joseph Allain, Kate Benson, Ugo Chukwu, Jorge Cordova, Leah Karpel, Esaú Mora, Julia Sirna-Frest and Addison Williams. The creative team includes Amith Chandrashaker (Lighting), Ásta Bennie Hostetter (Costumes), Kate Marvin (Sound), Kristen Robinson (Sets), Ed Herman (Stage Manager), Ann Marie Dorr (Production Manager), Jennifer Medina-Gray (Technical Director), Nick O'Leary (Assistant Director), Andrew Gorelick (Production Assistant), Sam Silbiger (Deck Manager / Props Master), Caitlyn Murphy (Assistant Scenic Designer / Props Designer), Nell Simon (Assistant Costume Designer), and Dallas Estes (Master Electrician and Programmer). [PORTO] is being produced by Kate Benson, Lee Sunday Evans, John Del Gaudio, and Rachel Karpf Reidy.

[PORTO] is being presented at The Bushwick Starr as part of the 2017 Exponential Festival, a festival focusing on new work in Brooklyn venues by New York theater artists. Support for [ PORTO] includes the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, and the New York State Legislature; and lead support from Jody Falco and Jeffrey Steinman. Production design support provided by the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).