Immigrant Stories on Boston Stages: Inside the Ufot Family Cycle

How does our idea of immigration change when it's not a journey with a clear destination, but a life spent learning who you are in the space between two homes? In this episode of Scene in Boston, a Boston theatre podcast, hosts Laura Amico and Lisa Thalhamer step into the world of playwright Mfoniso Udofia's Ufot Family Cycle, a nine-play epic tracing one Nigerian American family across 100 years, continents, and generations. Guest Kevin Becerra of The Huntington Theatre Company reveals how these plays shimmer with easter eggs, bilingual Ibibio–English storytelling, and deeply human characters that feel like someone you know. Along the way, they spotlight the new workshop production Lifted, the broader Ufot Family Cycle running across multiple Boston theaters, and touch on what's next in Boston theatre, from Broadway in Boston titles like Maybe Happy Ending and Death Becomes Her to upcoming work at the Huntington and ArtsEmerson—all part of the citywide collaboration bringing this cycle to stages and neighborhoods across Greater Boston.