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DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE

13103 Woodrow Wilson St
Detroit, MI 48238

August Wilson's The Piano Lesson


Berneice and her brother Boy Willie fight over the fate of the family piano; she sees connection while he sees means to a prosperous future.

Eclipsed
Eclipsed
3/27 - 5/17/2026


Five extraordinary women, who have formed an unlikely sisterhood, struggle to negotiate power, protection and peace as they fight to survive the Liberian Civil War.

Spit in Your Face
Spit in Your Face
5/29 - 6/28/2026


As the only Mexican-American in a San Francisco theatre company, Liliana is in the thorny position of having to realize the vision of two men.



August Wilson's THE PIANO LESSON Opens at The Detroit Repertory Theatre


by Stephi Wild - December 19, 2025

The Detroit Repertory Theatre will continue its 69th Season and the production of the American Century Cycle with August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize...

PRIMARY TRUST to Kick Off Detroit Repertory Theatre Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 31, 2025

The Detroit Repertory Theatre will begin its 69th Season with the Detroit Premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning Primary Trust by Eboni Booth. Primary Trust celebrates friendship, connection, and small acts of kindness that can change a community....

PRIMARY TRUST Opens at the Detroit Repertory Theatre


by Stephi Wild - October 22, 2025

The Detroit Repertory Theatre will begin its 69th Season with the Detroit Premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning Primary Trust by Eboni Booth. Learn more about the show here!...

THE PIANO LESSON, ECLIPSED and More Set for Detroit Repertory Theatre 69th Season


by A.A. Cristi - October 02, 2025

Detroit Repertory Theatre has announced its 69th season, running November 2025–June 2026. The lineup includes Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, the Michigan premiere of Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed, and the world premiere of Spit in Your Face....

COVENANT Comes to Detroit Repertory Theatre


by Stephi Wild - May 01, 2025

The Detroit Repertory Theatre will present its final show of its 68th season, the Michigan Premiere of Covenant by York Walker. Performances begin this month. Learn more here!...

HYSTERICAL! Comes to Detroit Repertory Theatre


by Stephi Wild - February 21, 2025

The Detroit Repertory Theatre will open the third show of its 68th season with the Midwest Premiere of Hysterical! by Elenna Stauffer. Learn more about the upcoming production here!...

Detroit Repertory Theatre Starts 68th Season With World Premiere of ALAMO SHOES


by Stephi Wild - October 16, 2024

Detroit Repertory Theatre announced the world premiere of ALAMO SHOES, opening November 1, as it kicks off its 68th season. Discover the latest production and what it bThe Detroit Repertory Theatre will kick off its 68th season with a World Premiere, Alamo Shoes, written by Detroit native playwright...

Past Shows

Primary Trust
Primary Trust
11/7 - 12/28/2025


By day Kenneth sells books, by night he drinks maitais with his friend Bert. When he's laid off, he's forced into a new world.

Covenant
Covenant
5/16 - 7/7/2025


Two years after his sudden disappearance, struggling guitarist Johnny “Honeycomb” James returns to his small town a blues star, sparking rumors that he may have ...

Covenant
Covenant
5/16 - 7/7/2025


Two years after his sudden disappearance, struggling guitarist Johnny “Honeycomb” James returns to his small town a blues star, sparking rumors that he may have ...

Hysterical!
Hysterical!
3/14 - 5/4/2025


Team spirit isn’t all that’s contagious during the Bandits' “best year EVER!” One by one, the girls of the high school cheerleading squad succumb to ...

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
1/10 - 3/2/2025


In a rundown Chicago recording studio in 1927, tempers rise and simmering conflicts erupt when the “Mother of the Blues” and her band record a ...

Alamo Shoes
Alamo Shoes
11/1 - 12/22/2024


A terrible thing has happened at what might be the last shoe store in Detroit. And now the sales team, a proper group of misfits ...

Alamo Shoes
11/1 - 12/22/2024


Alamo Shoes, written by Detroit native Steven Simoncic, makes its world premiere at the Detroit Repertory Theatre as part of the theater's 68th season. The ...

Between Riverside and Crazy
Between Riverside and Crazy
5/17 - 7/7/2024


City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the Landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed — and the Church won’t leave him ...

Annabella in July
Annabella in July
3/15 - 5/5/2024


To celebrate their 20th anniversary, Vanessa and Brian take a road trip in hopes of reinvigorating a flagging marriage. Lost in the California mountains, they ...

Harmony Park
Harmony Park
5/10 - 5/20/2018


About the World Premiere of Harmony Park by Daniel Damiano. Set on the construction site of a soon-to-be public park in Queens, NY, the friendship ...

Roaming Charges
Roaming Charges
5/30 - 6/23/2013


Lacey Cubbard, a precocious African American young lady, new to the neighborhood, gently swings back and forth on the swing. Kate enters, sits on one ...

A Thousand Circlets
A Thousand Circlets
3/28 - 5/19/2013


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 ...

Postcards
Postcards
1/10 - 3/17/2013


Alvin Moseby is a photographer. He lived in the south during the 1930s, in Shiloh, Tennessee to be exact. When times are tough we often ...

A Paradise of Fools
A Paradise of Fools
11/1 - 12/30/2012


A couple of con artists, Francesca and Bernardo, are down on their luck when they discover a dim-witted shoemaker, Calandino, received an inheritance. The swindlers ...

Taking Care Of Mimi
5/31 - 6/24/2012

Dead And Buried
3/29 - 5/20/2012


by James McLindon Directed by Lewis Magruder October 3-6 2012, 8pm October 7 2012, 2pm A new comedy about three very different people who form ...

Burying The Bones
1/12 - 3/18/2012

Rules of Engagement
11/3 - 12/31/2011

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