Aurora Theatre Company Presents Bay Area Premiere Of DETROIT '67

Aurora Theatre Company opens their 27th season with DETROIT '67 by Dominique Morisseau, author of the hit Temptations musical Ain't Too Proud, and the Obie-award winning Skeleton Crew. Darryl V. Jones (The Royale) directs the Bay Area premiere of this redemptive story of family and survival that won the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History. DETROIT '67 runs August 31 - September 30.

It's 1967. Motown music rules, and Chelle and her brother Lank make ends meet by holding after-hour dance parties in their basement. But when Lank shelters a battered, white woman with a secret past, the siblings clash over more than the family business while riots threaten to burn down the city's black neighborhoods.

DETROIT '67 runs August 31-September 30 (Opens September 6)

PREVIEWS

Friday 8/31 and Saturday 9/1 at 8 pm; Sunday, 9/2 at 2 pm only.

Tuesday 9/4 and Wednesday, 9/5, at 7 pm.

OPENS Thursday, September 6

Performances: Tuesday and Wednesday at 7pm; Thursday through Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 2pm, 7pm

Aurora Theatre Company, 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA

For single tickets ($33-$65) or subscriptions ($99-$360), the public can call

(510) 843-4822 or visit auroratheatre.org

Aurora Theatre Company gratefully acknowledges the following foundations and government agencies for their support: Actors' Equity Foundation, Alameda County Arts Commission ARTSFUND, Berkeley Civic Arts Program & Civic Arts Commission, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, MUFG Union Bank Foundation, Sam Mazza Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Theatre Bay Area, The Tournesol Project Union Pacific Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Zellerbach Family Foundation.