Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
1/10 - 3/2/2025
In a rundown Chicago recording studio in 1927, tempers rise and simmering conflicts erupt when the “Mother of the Blues” and her band record a ...
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Past Shows
Alamo Shoes
11/1 - 12/22/2024
A terrible thing has happened at what might be the last shoe store in Detroit. And now the sales team, a proper group of misfits ...
Alamo Shoes
11/1 - 12/22/2024
Alamo Shoes, written by Detroit native Steven Simoncic, makes its world premiere at the Detroit Repertory Theatre as part of the theater's 68th season. The ...
Between Riverside and Crazy
5/17 - 7/7/2024
City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the Landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed — and the Church won’t leave him ...
City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the Landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed — and the Church won’t leave him ...
Annabella in July
3/15 - 5/5/2024
To celebrate their 20th anniversary, Vanessa and Brian take a road trip in hopes of reinvigorating a flagging marriage. Lost in the California mountains, they ...
Topdog/Underdog
10/27
This electrifying drama about the gritty lives of two street-savvy hustlers resonated through the theatre world. The New York Times led the way, calling it ...
Fairview
6/2 - 7/31/2022
At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this ...
THE PUPPETEER
1/9 - 3/15/2020
Detroit Repertory Theatre: The Puppeteer...
Channel Cat
11/7 - 12/29/2019
Joseph Zettelmaier; dir: Harry Wetzel. World Premiere...
Williston
5/30 - 6/30/2019
Adam Seidel....
Aubrey
3/28 - 5/19/2019
Joe Musso; dir: Barbara Busby....
The House on Poe Street
1/10 - 3/17/2019
A play by Fengar Gael Directed by Katie McHugh Gothic ghosts encounter modern monstrosities when twin sisters inherit the house where Poe is reputed to ...
Evidence of Things Unseen
11/1 - 12/23/2018
Katie Forgette. Jewell Mainstage Theatre:...
Harmony Park
5/10 - 5/20/2018
About the World Premiere of Harmony Park by Daniel Damiano. Set on the construction site of a soon-to-be public park in Queens, NY, the friendship ...
Harmony Park
3/29 - 5/20/2018
Daniel Damiano; dir: Barbara Busby....
Dauphin Island
1/11 - 3/18/2018
Jeffrey Chastang. Octagon Stage:...
Countdown to the Happy Day
5/25 - 6/25/2017
Thomas W. Stephens; dir: Sandra Love Aldridge. World Premiere...
Capital
3/23 - 5/14/2017
James Armstrong; dir: Leah Smith. Detroit Repertory Theatre:...
Firepower
1/5 - 3/12/2017
Kermit Frazier; dir: Lynch Travis. Detroit Repertory Theatre:...
HOMELESS AND HOW WE GOT THAT WAY
5/26 - 6/26/2016
Dan McCormick; dir: Lynch R. Travis....
DEVIL DOG SIX
3/24 - 5/15/2016
Fengar Gael; dir: Leah Smith....
BUTLER
1/7 - 3/13/2016
The Civil War, 1861. An escaped slave seeks sanctuary, but the laws of the land are unrelenting. With sharp wit and tongue-in- cheek humor, Butler ...
HERB THE GREEN KNIGHT
11/5 - 12/27/2015
Emory Wilson; dir: Harry Wetzel....
WHITE ASH FALLING 9/11
5/28 - 6/28/2015
Thom Molyneaux; dir: Lynch R. Travis....
THE KISS OF THE SUN FOR PARDON
3/26 - 5/17/2015
Lans Traverse; dir: Leah Smith....
BROTHER OF ALL
3/27 - 5/18/2014
Jim Henry; dir: Lynch Travis....
MY OCCASION OF SIN
1/9 - 3/16/2014
Monica Bauer; dir: Leah Smith....
A FACILITY FOR LIVING
11/7 - 12/29/2013
Katie Forgette; dir: Barbara Busby....
Roaming Charges
5/30 - 6/23/2013
Lacey Cubbard, a precocious African American young lady, new to the neighborhood, gently swings back and forth on the swing. Kate enters, sits on one ...
A Thousand Circlets
3/28 - 5/19/2013
Earl Leighton, the family patriarch, an African American architect, self-made, proud, on the verge of realizing his life's ambition: to build a skyscraper. His family ...
Postcards
1/10 - 3/17/2013
Alvin Moseby is a photographer. He lived in the south during the 1930s, in Shiloh, Tennessee to be exact. When times are tough we often ...
A Paradise of Fools
11/1 - 12/30/2012
A couple of con artists, Francesca and Bernardo, are down on their luck when they discover a dim-witted shoemaker, Calandino, received an inheritance. The swindlers ...
Taking Care Of Mimi
5/31 - 6/24/2012
Dead And Buried
3/29 - 5/20/2012
by James McLindon Directed by Lewis Magruder October 3-6 2012, 8pm October 7 2012, 2pm A new comedy about three very different people who form ...
Burying The Bones
1/12 - 3/18/2012
Rules of Engagement
11/3 - 12/31/2011
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A Driving Beat
FIM Flint Repertory Theatre (3/14 - 3/30) | |
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Fourteen Funerals
The Purple Rose Theatre Company (2/6 - 3/9) NEW COMEDY | |
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The Lion in Winter
Grosse Pointe Theatre (2/7 - 2/16) | |
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Sense & Sensibility
The Encore Musical Theatre Company (2/27 - 3/16) NEW MUSICAL MICHIGAN PREMIERE
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies – Part 1
Miller Auditorium (4/24 - 4/24) | |
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Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Non-Equity)
Whiting Auditorium (6/22 - 6/22) | |
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Come From Away (Non-Equity)
Fisher Theatre (2/11 - 2/16) | |
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Late Nite Catechism
Miller Auditorium (3/9 - 3/9) | |
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Les Miserables
Stranahan Theater (6/3 - 6/8) | |
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