Detroit Repertory Theatre co-founder Barbara Busby died on Tuesday, Aug. 16, the company announced Monday. The Detroit Rep has been a staple in the city’s theatre community since Busby and a ...

Adapted from information at www.detroitreptheatre.com/aboutus.htm. The Detroit Repertory Theatre is one of the country's few remaining neighborhood-based professional ...

A string of purgatorial plays has been staged in the area recently, with Detroit Repertory Theatre’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” finding purgatory in an early 20th-century boarding house ...

You’d be wrong. Wilson’s writing puts Ma Rainey’s band as the characters that we spend the most time with, but the Detroit Repertory Theatre’s production allows each actor to have their ...

August Wilson’s acclaimed “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” continues its joyous run at the Detroit Repertory Theatre (through March 2) with performances at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17, 3 and 8 p.m ...

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 set of jazz and blues standards. Fiery and ...

You can see ‘August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ at the Detroit Repertory Theatre now through March 2nd. Get ready for a toe-tapping, booty-shaking night at “The Big Show,” this ...

The Detroit Repertory Theatre is Michigan’s longest running non-profit professional theatre. The Rep is known for its pioneer efforts in race, ethnic and gender transcendent casting and has ...

No one-acts or musicals. Production ready, issue-oriented plays (comedy or drama) with up to 7 characters (no double casting or children) that are bound in a folder, include a cast list, SASE, and ...