cast: Myers Clark Rafael Jordan* Halili Knox* Emily Radosevich Akilah A. Walker* |
creative team: DARRYL V. JONES DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU Richard Olmsted** Kitty Muntzel Jeff Rowlings** Cliff Caruthers** Dani Bae** |
Detroit '67
BAY AREA PREMIERE
By Dominique Morisseau | Directed By Darryl V. Jones
Now Extended until Oct 7!
From the author of the hit Temptations musical Ain’t Too Proud, and the Obie award-winning Skeleton Crew, comes Detroit ‘67. It’s 1967, Motown music rules, and Chelle and her brother Lank are making ends meet by holding after-hours dance parties in the basement of their home. But when Lank shelters a battered white woman, the siblings clash over more than the family business and the riots burning the black neighborhoods of their city.
Detroit ‘67 is a redemptive story of family and survival, and was the winner of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History.
“A DIRECT HEIR TO THE MAGICAL WORDSMITHS NAMED LORRAINE
HANSBERRY, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, AND AUGUST WILSON.”
— HUFFINGTON POST
Detroit '67 runs approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes, including one intermission.
*Please be advised, Detroit '67 includes the use of flashing lights.
With only (five) characters in the cast, it’s remarkable what these actors achieve. At times, they seem to speak for all of Detroit in the 60s — and, perhaps, for our time, today.
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