Earl Leighton, the family patriarch, an African American architect, self-made, proud, on the verge of realizing his life's ambition: to build a skyscraper. His family is gathering in anticipation of the big presentation to come. Caleb, his eldest son, a CFO in his father's architecture firm, Rebecca, his daughter, a journalist, a wanderer and Grey, his stepson, an architect at a small firm in New York. Liz, Earl's second wife of twenty years, a retired literature professor runs an efficient household among the trappings of wealth.
When Earl forgets how to tie his tie we realize foreboding ripples threaten the seemingly smooth waters.
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University of Michigan Dance Company 2026
Power Center for the Performing Arts (2/5 - 2/8) | |
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Marat/Sade
Power Center for the Performing Arts (2/19 - 2/22) | |
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Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Power Center for the Performing Arts (4/16 - 4/19) | |
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TINA—The Tina Turner Musical
Miller Auditorium (3/3 - 3/4) | |
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The Courage to Right A Woman's Wrongs
Varner Studio Theatre (3/19 - 3/29) | |
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The Holiday Hangover
Dudley Riggs Theatre (1/23 - 2/6) | |
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Almost, Maine
Grosse Pointe Theatre (1/29 - 2/8) | |
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Sweeny Todd
Gilmore Theatre Complex-Shaw Theatre (4/10 - 4/26) | |
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& Juliet
Fisher Theatre (3/31 - 4/12) | |
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Hadestown (Non-Equity)
Wharton Center [Cobb Great Hall] (1/30 - 2/1) | |
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