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Paradise Blue

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2020 Season

By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
With André Holland, Kristolyn Lloyd, Simone Missick, Keith Randolph Smith, Blair Underwood

It's 1949 in Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood, and there’s no better place to hear or play jazz than Paradise Club. Blue (Emmy Award winner, Grammy Award winner, and 2020 Tony Award nominee Blair Underwood), club owner and trumpeter, can wail like no other, but as forces outside the club conspire to irreparably change life inside and outside Paradise's walls, he... Read More

Sweet Bird of Youth

July 19 - July 30 Main Stage
2006 Season

Author: Williams, Tennessee
Director: Jones, David
"Relentless caper for all those who step / The legend of their youth into the noon." With this quote from his spiritual and literary mentor, Hart Crane, Tennessee Williams began his last great lyric play. A movie star who's seen better days, Alexandra Del Lago (travelling incognito as "Princess") occupies a hotel room with a young man, Chance Wayne. chance... Read More

Water’s Edge, The

June 23 - July 4 Nikos Stage
2004 Season

Author: Rebeck, Theresa
Director: Frears, Will
Theresa Rebeck, writer of the recent Off-Broadway hits Omnium Gatherum and Bad Dates, brings a powerful new drama to WTF. Richard returns to his family home after 17 years to reconcile with his estranged wife, Helen, and their two children. The mysteries of time and memory are awakened along with Helen’s simmering rage, and the play moves through comedy to... Read More

Threepenny Opera, The

June 25 - July 6 Main Stage
2003 Season

Author: Brecht, Bertolt & Kurt Weill
Director: Hunt, Peter
Hide your daughters! Mack the Knife is back! Set in the underbelly of London, ruled by criminals and corrupt police, populated by beggars, and entertained by prostitutes, The Threepenny Opera tells the story of the sly and debonair Macheath, his den of thieves, and his many women. Considered revolutionary in its 1928 premiere, Brecht and Weill's master work set the... Read More

Full Gallop

June 18 - June 22 The Other Stage
1997 Season

Author: Wilson, Mary Louise & Mark Hampton
Director: Martin, Nicholas

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