Theatre Communications Group, 2018

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (5), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...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...

Theatre Communications Group, 2018

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Blue, a gifted trumpeter, contemplates selling his once-vibrant jazz club in Detroit’s Blackbottom neighbourhood to shake free the demons of his past and better his life. But where does that leave his devoted Pumpkin, who has dreams of her...

Theatre Communications Group, 2018

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him...

Theatre Communications Group, 2018

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each of the workers have to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under. Shanita has to decide how she'll support...