SEASON 9 SHOWS & DATES

Clyde’s

By Lynn Nottage
April 24, 2024 - June 2, 2024

Run time is approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

Cast

Kelli Crump - Clyde
Brian Marable - Montrellous
Alexander Pobutsky - Jason
Erik Hernandez - Rafael
Marie Muhammad - Letitia

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage serves up a savory story of resilience, redemption, and the healing powers of food in Clyde’s. The formerly incarcerated kitchen staff of a truck-stop sandwich joint are on a mission to create the perfect sandwich—and to move forward from past lives that were far from perfect. Though Clyde, the shop’s formerly incarcerated owner, is a “second chance” employer who only hires people who’ve experienced incarceration, she never hesitates to remind her staff of just how precarious their lives are: how much they depend on her and the jobs she’s given them. Hope and humor are the main ingredients in this thoroughly entertaining—and thoroughly urgent—play. The Washington Post called this Pulitzer Prize-winning play a "highly entertaining comedy of kitchen nightmares".

Creative Team

Courtney Burkett - Director
Badriyyah F. Wazeerud-Din - Stage Manager
Sarah Ackerman - Assistant Stage Manager & Props Designer
Amelia Bransky - Scenic & Props Designer
Christianne Myers - Costume Designer
Kate Hopgood - Audio Designer
John Alexander - Lighting Designer
Cornell Jermaine - Hair & Makeup Designer
Jen Pan - Intimacy & Fight Coordinator


Blues For An Alabama Sky

By Pearl Cleage
January 24, 2024 - March 3, 2024

Run time is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes with an intermission.

Cast

Mildred Victoria Penman - Angel
Izaya Spencer - Guy
Henri Franklin - Sam
Shaunie Lewis - Delia
Jesse Boyd-Williams - Leland

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In a New York City apartment building bustling with news and gossip about the luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance, a close-knit group of friends has become a chosen family. New roommates Angel and Guy — a recently fired blues singer and a promising costume designer with Paris in his sights — live across the hall from Delia, a social worker who sparks a relationship with the hardworking doctor Sam. Their lives are upturned when Southern newcomer Leland arrives and falls hard for Angel, who is torn between a stable life in Manhattan and an exhilarating overseas adventure with Guy. Angel chooses her path, but the decision leads to devastating consequences that shift the trajectory of everyone’s futures and long-held dreams. This modern classic by celebrated native Detroit playwright Pearl Cleage has profound relevance to our current times even as it is set during the Harlem Renaissance on the cusp of the Great Depression.

Creative Team

Brian Marable - Director
Noah Eisenberg - Assistant Director
Doran Kojan - Stage Manager
Badriyyah F. Wazeerud-Din - Assistant Stage Manager
Christianne Myers - Costume Designer
Cornell Jermaine - Hair & Makeup Designer
Lumumba Reynolds - Audio Designer
Moníka Essen - Scenic & Props Designer
Jen Pan - Intimacy & Fight Coordinator


'Tis the season to join some of DPT's great musical theater performers and musicians for a festive evening of song celebrating life’s greatest gifts. Get ready to join us for a night filled with everyone’s favorite holiday & musical theatre classics. This show will warm your heart when it gets cold, dark, and snowy! So get holly, get jolly, and get tickets! 'The DPT Holiday Cabaret will be THE celebration of the season!

An amazing opportunity to celebrate with friends, family, and co-workers. Take the worry out of planning this year’s holiday party and come celebrate at Detroit Public Theatre. To book your group or for more information on show dates and times please contact Madelyn Porter, the Detroit Public Theatre Connectivity & Engagement Manager, madelyn@detroitpublictheatre.org.

The DPT Holiday Cabaret contains some mild profanity. It's saucy! It's sassy!

DPT’s Holiday Cabaret

November 29, 2023 - December 17, 2023

Cast

Arielle Crosby
Eric Gutman
Bryanna Hall
Dev



Eight Nights follows the journey of Rebecca Blum, a Holocaust survivor who arrives in the United States in December of 1949. Set during the eight nights of Hanukkah, we travel with her as she builds a family and a diverse community of loved ones—always moving forward—daring only to touch the past for those she loves the most. Jennifer Maisel’s award-winning, lyrical play illuminates brutal cycles of oppression and erasure across time amongst Jewish, African American, Japanese American, and recent Middle Eastern refugee communities. Her powerful story simultaneously celebrates the resilience of the human spirit—continually striving for connection and seeking the very best of humanity even in the worst of times. 


Jennifer Maisel’s Eight Nights has “breathtaking emotional impact,” according to The Los Angeles Times, and received 9 Ovation Award nominations in Los Angeles.

Creative Team

Marya Mazor - Director
Sarah Pearline - Scenic Design
Matt Taylor - Lighting Design
Katie Hopgood - Sound Design
Christopher Vergara - Costume Design
Laurence Vance - Prod Design
Doran Konja - Stage Manager
Chris Corporandy - Dialect
Jen Pan - Intimacy Choreographer
Jalise Little - Sound Board Operator
Owen Zabor - Light Board Operator
Badriyyah Wazeerud-Din - Assistant Stage Manager
Katie Grace - Assistant Production Manager
William McClelland - Production Dramaturg

Eight Nights

By Jennifer Maisel
September 27, 2023 - November 5, 2023

To accompany this impactful play, post-show Talk Backs will follow every Saturday and Sunday matinee. Plus you can stick around after Thursday and Friday evening shows to discuss themes of the show with DPT's Producing Artistic Directors and Eight Nights cast.

Run time is approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

Cast

Rivka Borek - Rebecca Blum
Eric Gutman - Erich Blum
Michael Lopetrone - Aaron
Sarah Winkler - Anna Blum
Henrí Franklin - Benjamin
Janai Lashon -
Arlene
Kurt Kanazawa -
Steven

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Detroit Public Theatre’s pick-your-price performances are made possible by the MSUFCU Desk Drawer Foundation.

Detroit Public Theatre is supported in part by the Michigan Arts & Culture Council + National Endowment for the Arts.