When Janet Howard and her son move into her grandmother’s home on H Street, she doesn’t expect her life to change. But after meeting the infamous singer Josephine St. Croix, reconnecting with an old flame, and forming an unexpected bond with their white neighbor, long-buried secrets begin to surface—threatening to pull them apart.
Set against the backdrop of 1960s D.C., this world premiere by award-winning multihyphenate artist Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, Smoke explores love, found family, motherhood, and healing—inviting us to consider what it means when the community we build becomes our saving grace.