Detroit Repertory Theatre Announces 57th Season: A FACILITY FOR LIVING, MY OCCASION OF SIN & More!

The Detroit Repertory Theatre's 2013/2014 Season will have a Champagne Opening and Celebration on November 07, 2013. The highlight of this 57th Opening Night at the Rep will be the Midwest Premiere comedy A FACILITY FOR LIVING by Katie Forgette. The rest of the season are all World Premiere plays that span a range of issues: a powerful story about the changing music scene in the 1960's in America as a metaphor for the race riots happening at the time; a mystery about 3 Cherokee "blood brothers"; and finally a twisted comical romp about a professor who meets a student who has taken his teachings about animal rights literally.

Performances are Thursdays and Fridays at 8:30 PM, Saturdays at 3 PM and 8:30 PM, and Sundays at 2 PM and 7:30 PM. Tickets will remain among the most affordable for professional theatre in the region at $17 in advance, and subscriptions remain the unheard of price of $100 for two for a year. The Detroit Repertory Theatre is located in the center of the city at 13103 Woodrow Wilson, Detroit, MI 48238. Parking is lighted, guarded, fenced-in and free.

The Detroit Repertory Theatre is a living embodiment of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream and a salient expression of the creative power of diversity acting in unity. The Rep's new season continues the dream.

A FACILITY FOR LIVING
by Katie Forgette
Midwest Premiere
Directed by Barbara Busby
November 7 through December 29, 2013
*Special Black Tie Gala Performance November 16, 2013
Judy, Wally and Mitzie stay in an "assisted living" facility. They want to live a meaningful life but Nurse Claudia is a tough-love practitioner who runs the place by the "book" and treats them as if their mission in life is to follow the rules and quietly take the final step. Resentment runs high when Joe Taylor enters the facility. His loyalty and tenacity take over and life at the facility turns into a hilarious camp of rebellion, disobedience and ingenuity.

MY OCCASION OF SIN
By Monica Bauer
World Premiere
Directed by Leah Smith
January 09 to March 16, 2014
George and Helen Hollewinski own an Accordion Studio and Music Store in a changing Omaha neighborhood. Luigi Wells, a black jazz drummer, becomes a part of the struggling Music Store. Two young teens, one black, one white, get caught up in the ensuing cross-cultural musical and racial clash that precipitates the 1969 Omaha race riot. Out of the turmoil the union of old music and new music point to a ray of hope.

BROTHER OF ALL
By Jim Henry
World Premiere
Directed by Lynch R. Travis
March 27 to May 18, 2014
Leonard was just 8 years old when he, his older brother and their friend, in accordance with Cherokee custom and legend, rubbed bloody palms together and took a Cherokee Blood Brothers forever oath. Leonard called it the greatest day of his life. Now he is being interrogated by a forensic psychologist and all three are suspects in a mysterious death. The Cherokee connection steers the action to a dramatic conclusion.

ENDANGERED SPECIES
By Tom Baum
World Premiere
Directed by Harry Wetzel
May 29 to June 22, 2014
Leon is a philosophy professor who has to face his worse nightmare - a student who takes his teachings on behalf of animal rights seriously. His wife is an animal research scientist pushing him to write his memoirs and looking for an assistant to help him. When a young woman with vegetarian convictions and compromised virtue arrives, followed by a young man with a cause and on a mission, mishaps, subterfuge, duplicity and mayhem reign supreme. Add in 40 pound rabbits and chaos ensues.

FOR TICKETS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, BARGAIN BOOKLETS OR EARLY-BIRD FUNDRAISING DATES, CALL (313) 868-1347.

For more information, visit www.detroitreptheatre.com.

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