The third play in MacArthur Genius award-winning playwright Dominique Morisseau's Detroit cycle, Paradise Blue is set in Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood as it is being gentrified in 1949. Blue, a brilliant jazz musician, is torn between remaining in Black Bottom or leaving behind his traumatic past. Paradise Blue is a passionate, timely look at what is lost—and what is gained—by the people of a city in transition.

CREATIVE TEAM

Dominique Morisseau — Playwright
Goldie Patrick — Director
Moníka Essen — Scenic Design
Michaela Tanskley — Costume Design
Jonathan Alexander — Lighting Design
Mikaal Sulaiman — Sound Design
Pegi Marshall — Props Design & Props Master
Katherine Nelson — Production Stage Manager

Virtuosic solo performer Kane Smego explores race, identity and language in his one-man show. Poetry, hip-hop and storytelling join forces in his tale of growing up a white boy in the South, with a black father figure and a love of hip-hop. Now an international spoken word artist, musician and educator, Smego's poetic reflection asks us to take a closer look at ourselves and our society.

CREATIVE TEAM

Joseph Megel — Director
Torry Bend — Scenic Design
Aaron Tacy — Lighting Design
Michael Keck — Sound Design
Jeromy Hopgood — Projection Design
Katherine Nelson — Production Stage Manager &
Costume Consultant

Lift up your hands for the most groundbreaking, gut-busting, gender-bending character ever to grace the stage! Join the outrageous Hedwig Schmidt as she shares her story, backed by her rock band "The Angry Inch," for an immersive rock event that will inspire anyone who feels life has given them an inch when they deserved a mile.

CREATIVE TEAM

John Cameron Mitchell — Text
Stephen Trask — Music & Lyrics
Courtney Burkett — Director
Eric Gutman — Music Director, Piano & Guitar
Pegi Marshall — Scenic Design
Isabelle Molnar — Costume Design
Chantal Gaidica — Lighting Design
Tony Ross — Sound Design
Mikey Brown — Projection Design
Sarah Ackerman — Production Stage Manager
Maxwell Allen — Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager

Cost of Living is an exquisitely original, honest and deftly funny new play that explores our need to connect and be loved, regardless of the gulfs that disability, race and class place between us. John, a wealthy and successful PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, who has recently fallen on hard times, as his new caregiver. Across town, truck driver Eddie attempts to support and reengage with his estranged wife, Ani, following a life-altering accident. Watch as four very different lives collide, and roles are reversed.