Playwright Dominique Morisseau
1
Skeleton Crew
(Northlight Theatre)
The third play in Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit trilogy takes place in one of the last auto plants in the city just as last decade’s financial crisis begins.
Opens February 2
2
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
(Haven Theatre)
Artistic director Josh Sobel stages an ensemble-driven production of Brecht’s 1938 classic as a warning of how insidiously a culture can make space for atrocity.
Opens February 13
3
BREACH: a manifesto on race in America through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate
(Victory Gardens Theater)
Antoinette Nwandu’s coming-of-age story about race, class and motherhood examines how hard it is to love others when you loathe yourself most of all.
Opens February 16
4
The Burn
(Steppenwolf for Young Adults)
When a high school production of “The Crucible” forces a social outsider and her tormentor together, tensions escalate into acts of bullying—both online and IRL.
Opens February 17
5
Six Corners
(American Blues Theater)
Two burnt-out violent-crimes-unit detectives do their damnedest to close what should be an open-and-shut case, but which proves instead to be a horrifying mystery and a legacy of violence stretching back years.
Opens February 22
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