Milk Like Sugar

By Kirstin Greenidge

Presented by Huntington Theatre Company | January 29 — February 29 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA.

Carolina Sanchez, Jasmine Carmichael, and Shazi Raja in Milk Like Sugar. Milk Like Sugar plays from January 29 – February 27, South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

Jasmine Carmichael and Shanae Burch in Milk Like Sugar. Milk Like Sugar plays from January 29 – February 27, South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

Ramona Lisa Alexander and Jasmine Carmichael in Milk Like Sugar. Milk Like Sugar plays from January 29 – February 27, South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

Shazi Raja and Carolina Sanchez in Milk Like Sugar. Milk Like Sugar plays from January 29 – February 27, South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

Shazi Raja, Jasmine Carmichael, and Carolina Sanchez in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Milk Like Sugar, playing January 29 – February 28, 2016, Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Photo: Nile Scott Shots/Nile Hawver.

Jasmine Carmichael and Carolina Sanchez in Milk Like Sugar. Milk Like Sugar plays from January 29 – February 27, South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

Annie and her teenage friends want the same things: the hottest new phones, cute boys, designer bags. But when they enter into a pregnancy pact, she wonders if there might be a different path and a brighter future. Playwright Fellow Kirsten Greenidge finds raw humor and gritty poetry in this provocative, ripped-from-the-headlines new play.

Reviews & Press

"It is, in fact, surprising how infectiously entertaining Milk Like Sugar, with its hip-hop transitions and joyful noises, can be when you want to weep for its feisty if misinformed young characters, whose opportunities are as stunted as their facts can be... Boldly and fluidly staged by Associate Producer M. Bevin O’Gara." — WBUR The ARTery

"A bittersweet portrait of a striving teen...M. Bevin O’Gara elicits vivid performances from her young cast." — The Boston Globe

“Milk Like Sugar balances street with sweet, to entertaining and illuminating effect. A MUST SEE!”– Los Angeles Times

“An excellent cast! Smart and complex.”– Edge Boston