Strand Theater Company Presents the Second Production of its 11th Season

Detroit ‘67

By Dominique Morisseau

Baltimore, MD—The Strand Theater Company continues its 11th Season with Detroit ’67 by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Erin Riley. In 1967 Detroit, Motown music is getting the party started, and Chelle and her brother Lank are making ends meet by turning their basement into an after-hours joint. But when a mysterious woman finds her way into their lives, the siblings clash over much more than the family business. As their pent-up feelings erupt, so does their city, and they find themselves caught in the middle of the '67 riots.

Cast features: Shamire Casselle, Troy Jennings, Mack Leamon, Betsy Lyons, Rachel Reckling.

“At its very heart, Detroit ’67 is the story of one woman’s fight to keep it together, while the outside world is -literally- on fire.” says the production’s director, Erin Riley, “It is a profoundly human study of black and white, of love and hate, and all the gray areas in between.”

Detroit ’67 opens on November 1st and runs Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 2pm, through November 18. Tickets are $20 General Admission, $10 for students, seniors and artists. All performances take place at 5426 Harford Rd. 21214. Tickets are available at strand-theater.org.

Performance Dates:

November 1-18

Thu-Sat at 8:00 p.m., Sundays at 2:00pm

Location: 5426 Harford Rd. Baltimore MD 21201

Ticket Information: Visit www.strand-theater.org to purchase tickets.

Ticket Prices: General Admission - $20, Student/Senior/Artist - $10

About the Playwright

DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU is the author of The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle) which includes the following plays: Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company), Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre), and Detroit ’67 (Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem and NBT). Additional plays include: Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theatre), Sunset Baby (LAByrinth Theatre); Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre) and Follow Me To Nellie’s (Premiere Stages). She is also the book writer on the new musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations (Berkeley Repertory Theatre). Dominique is an alumna of The Public Theater Emerging Writer’s Group, Women’s Project Lab, and Lark Playwrights Workshop and has developed work at Sundance Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Eugene O’Neil Playwrights Conference. Her work has been commissioned by Steppenwolf Theater, Women’s Project, South Coast Rep, People’s Light and Theatre, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival/Penumbra Theatre. She most recently served as Co-Producer on the Showtime series “Shameless”. Awards include: Spirit of Detroit Award, PoNY Fellowship, Sky-Cooper Prize, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, OBIE Award, Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, and being named one of Variety’s Women of Impact for 2017-18. In October of 2018, Morisseau has been awarded the prestigious McArthur ‘Genius’ Grant