Unabashed Ask For Ca$h Bash

Join DPT for the 9th Annual Unabashed Ask For Ca$h Bash on Saturday, March 9th.


Click the name of each Season 9 Show to learn more!

+ Eight Nights

By Jennifer Maisel
September 27 - November 5, 2023

Eight Nights follows the journey of Rebecca Blum, a Holocaust survivor who arrives in the United States in December of 1949. Set during the eight nights of Hanukkah, we travel with her as she builds a family and a diverse community of loved ones—always moving forward—daring only to touch the past for those she loves the most. Jennifer Maisel’s award-winning, lyrical play illuminates brutal cycles of oppression and erasure across time amongst Jewish, African American, Japanese American, and recent Middle Eastern refugee communities. Her powerful story simultaneously celebrates the resilience of the human spirit—continually striving for connection and seeking the very best of humanity even in the worst of times.

Jennifer Maisel’s Eight Nights has “breathtaking emotional impact,” according to The Los Angeles Times, and received 9 Ovation Award nominations in Los Angeles.

+ DPT'S Holiday Cabaret

November 29 - December 17, 2023

'Tis the season to join some of DPT's great musical theater performers and musicians for a festive evening of song celebrating life’s greatest gifts. Get ready to join us for a night filled with everyone’s favorite holiday & musical theatre classics. This show will warm your heart when it gets cold, dark, and snowy! So get holly, get jolly, and get tickets! The DPT Holiday Cabaret will be THE celebration of the season!

+ Blues for an Alabama Sky

By Pearl Cleage
January 24 - March 3, 2024

In a New York City apartment building bustling with news and gossip about the luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance, a close-knit group of friends has become a chosen family. New roommates Angel and Guy —a recently fired blues singer and a promising costume designer with Paris in his sights— live across the hall from Delia, a social worker who sparks a relationship with the hardworking doctor Sam. Their lives are upturned when Southern newcomer Leland arrives and falls hard for Angel, who is torn between a stable life in Manhattan and an exhilarating overseas adventure with Guy. Angel chooses her path, but the decision leads to devastating consequences that shift the trajectory of everyone’s futures and long-held dreams. This modern classic by celebrated native Detroit playwright Pearl Cleage has profound relevance to our current times even as it is set during the Harlem Renaissance on the cusp of the Great Depression.

+ Clyde's

By Lynn Nottage
April 24 - June 2, 2024

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage serves up a savory story of resilience, redemption, and the healing powers of food in Clyde’s. The formerly incarcerated kitchen staff of a truck-stop sandwich joint are on a mission to create the perfect sandwich—and to move forward from past lives that were far from perfect. Though Clyde, the shop’s formerly incarcerated owner, is a “second chance” employer who only hires people who’ve experienced incarceration, she never hesitates to remind her staff of just how precarious their lives are: how much they depend on her and the jobs she’s given them. Hope and humor are the main ingredients in this thoroughly entertaining—and thoroughly urgent—play. The Washington Post called Clyde's a "highly entertaining comedy of kitchen nightmares."



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Detroit Public Theatre is supported in part by the Michigan Arts & Culture Council + National Endowment for the Arts