Detroit Public Theatre Opens In Midtown
The award-winning Detroit Public Theatre has opened its first show at its new home in Midtown. The new theatre location, at 3960 Third Street at Selden, is a 200+ seat…
ATLANTA, GA – FEBRUARY 08: Actors Taye Diggs and Daniel Ezra and speak onstage at the “All American” panel during SCAD aTVfest 2019 at SCADshow on February 8, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.
(Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SCAD aTVfest 2019 )The award-winning Detroit Public Theatre has opened its first show at its new home in Midtown.
The new theatre location, at 3960 Third Street at Selden, is a 200+ seat black box theatre, which includes about 100 more seats than the theatre’s previous inside the Max M. Fisher Music Center, home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The site, an old garage and English muffin factory built in 1919, has been converted into a 7,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art performing arts hub with plenty of moving parts.
The first show, “Mud Row,” opened on Sept. 21, and runs through Oct. 30. It was created by Detroit playwright Dominique Morisseau, a multiple TONY Award winner and MacArthur Genius Award-winning writer of international acclaim, who also serves as Detroit Public Theater’s Executive Artistic Producer.
“Mud Row,” directed by Lamar Perry, weaves a compelling and hopeful story of sisterhood, love, forgiveness and shared heritage when two high-spirited sisters learn that one of them inherits their grandmother’s house. The cast features local and national talent, with several members of the cast returning home to Detroit following national theatre debuts.
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