There’s more comedy and drama to be found at “The Family Reunion.”

Youngstown writer-director Michael Anthony Forney debuted his play “The Family Reunion” last November at DeYor Performing Arts Center’s Ford Family Recital Hall, and “The Family Reunion, Part Two” will be staged at the same venue on Saturday.

The show followed a similar path as Forney’s “Why Me?,” which ended up as a two-part stage production presented in 2023 after audience members asked so many questions about what happened with the characters after the first play.

“Everyone’s like, ‘OK, who’s Kimberly pregnant by?’ ‘Who’s this and why does this happen?’ ‘When are we going to meet this guy?’,” Forney said. “Ah … ‘Family Reunion Two.’ So, no, it wasn’t planned. It wasn’t planned at all.”

The writing went fast. He had 65 pages in a week, but the work was shaped by seeing how it played with the cast. Forney would go back and revise the script after seeing those early rehearsals.

“I love directing, but the writing is what brings out more of my directing,” he said. “So I’m really focusing more on the writing aspect.”

In the first “Family Reunion,” Aunt B (LaTasha Dendy) decides to gather her family together for a reunion unaware of some of the drama that’s occurred since the last time they all were in the same place.

The sequel answers those questions from the first play and adds some new drama. Forney brings back the cast from last year’s production and adds Charles Wilder as Bebop, the boyfriend of Aunt B, who is talked about in the first play but never appears.

The rest of the cast features Christian Dion-Welch, Ensley C. Thomas, Wanda Clark, Seia Glover, Rosetta Perry, Jaylene Lewis, Ram Torres-Ramirez, Shaneika Moton, Wayne “Spank” Bonner Jr., Michael Jerome Taylor Jr. and Wynsten Andrews.

And for those who didn’t see last year’s production, there’s a scene opening in “Part Two” that will catch audience members up on the action.

Forney said people also can watch the original “The Family Reunion” on Forney Extreme TV, the subscription streaming service he started for his various projects. A crew will film Saturday’s production and it eventually will be available on the service. But he also has hopes for the concept beyond his own channel.

“I think we have a very entertaining franchise concept with this ‘Family Reunion’ thing,” he said. “Now that I see there’s an audience loving these characters, I’m planning to take a trip to New York, Atlanta and LA to make a deal, maybe even possibly sell the rights and partner with Lionsgate (which released the first Tyler Perry films) or something like that to turn it into a television series where it comes off the stage and it’s adapted into something bigger.”

If you go …

WHAT: “The Family Reunion, Part Two”

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Saturday

WHERE: Ford Family Recital Hall, DeYor Performing Arts Center, 260 W. Federal St., Youngstown

HOW MUCH: Tickets range from $25 to $45 and are available at the DeYor box office, online at experience yourarts.org and by calling 330-259-9651.