Last House on the Block

They called it the last house on the block: a nonprofit rehab on the edge of Koreatown where men landed after every other program, every second chance, and every person who loved them had run out. Chris Jensen arrived there with one suitcase, no keys, and a remarkable talent for getting loaded at exactly the wrong moment.Adapted from six essays first published on Substack, Last House on the Block is a story about finding your way home — and what happens when the life you want to escape turns out to be the one you have to start living. Funny, unsparing, and finally hopeful, it's a portrait of recovery as something built one ordinary day at a time. It isn’t a musical, but music runs all through it: an original piano score by Becky Moonitz sets the mood beneath the story, and two vocalists step in and out as the people who populated those years, singing fragments of the songs that drifted down hallways and out of car radios while all of it was happening.Directed by Troy Nickerson, Last House on the Block is the first original production from Theater on the Verge, following its sold-out run of regional premieres.