Diving Deeper

Director Thomas W. Jones on the setting of DETROIT '67

Director Thomas W. Jones on the setting of DETROIT '67

“There were new manufacturing jobs in Detroit, and with that came people moving out of apartment-like and project-like homes into two-story and one-story homes. With a home came a space called “a basement”, which for Black middle-class life (and for my life growing up) was a repository of dreams. It was a place where you went to imagine …”

DETROIT '67 Director Thomas W. Jones II on Dominique Morisseau & the landscape of American Theatre

DETROIT '67 Director Thomas W. Jones II on Dominique Morisseau & the landscape of American Theatre

“Detroit ‘67 is written by one of the most emerging, phenomenal artists of our generation, Dominique Morisseau, who is a part of a handful of African American women who are redefining and creating a Renaissance in the theatre…”