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Where does the curtain go up tonight?

146 theaters and companies across Detroit and Michigan, from Broadway tours to basement stages. 322 performances to pick from in the next 30 days.

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Quarter Detroit presents

  • 146theaters
  • 500shows on the bill
  • 24lost legends
Mosaic Youth Theatre of DetroitWilliamston TheatreGo Comedy! Improv TheaterAll-of-us Express Children's TheatreOpen Book Theatre CompanyPlowshares Theatre CompanyBay City PlayersTibbits Opera HouseThe Encore Musical Theatre CompanyMeadow Brook TheatreOld Town PlayhouseAvon Players TheatreUMS (University Musical Society)All The World's A Stage (ATWAS)Riverwalk TheatreCroswell Opera HouseTwin City PlayersPit & Balcony Community TheatreCircle TheatreDetroit Repertory TheatreDetroit Dance CollectiveFlint Community PlayersCenter Stage JacksonRiver City Improv

01 / Playbill

What should we see this week?

Straight from the theaters’ own calendars, refreshed several times a day. One card per show: the next performance and how long it runs.

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02 / Theater finder

What kind of night are you after?

Broadway sparkle, an experimental basement stage, opera, or the next town’s big-hearted community players? Pick a type and a region.

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27 matches

Broadway & big houses / Downtown

Fox Theatre

The splendor of a 1928 movie palace, now home to major concerts and stage productions.

5,048 seats

Broadway & big houses / Cass Corridor

Masonic Temple

A Gothic-scale Detroit landmark with towers, performance spaces, and concert nights inside a vast complex.

4,404 seats

Broadway & big houses / Grosse Pointe Park

Schaap Center for the Performing Arts

A brand-new performing arts center on Jefferson Avenue in Grosse Pointe Park: a 424-seat, two-level theatre with a fly loft, an elevating orchestra pit and an LED projection wall, plus an art gallery.

Since 2025424 seats

Broadway & big houses / Ann Arbor

UMS (University Musical Society)

Since 1879, UMS has been bringing visiting musicians, dancers and theater companies to Ann Arbor, in venues from Hill Auditorium to the Power Center. It's already building toward its 150th season.

Broadway & big houses / Grand Rapids

DeVos Performance Hall (Broadway Grand Rapids)

Grand Rapids' big 2,404-seat stage, where the Broadway tours land and the Grand Rapids Symphony plays. This fall brings The Notebook and Maybe Happy Ending, and The Phantom of the Opera arrives in August 2027.

Since 19802,404 seats

Broadway & big houses / Detroit

Gem Theatre

Detroit's 1927 Gem Theatre, moved five blocks on wheels in 1997 in a Guinness world record; now an event and wedding venue.

Since 1927

Broadway & big houses / West Bloomfield

The Berman Center for the Performing Arts

A performing arts theatre on the Jewish Community Center campus in West Bloomfield, used for concerts, family musicals, lectures and film.

600 seats

Broadway & big houses / Brighton

Brighton Center for the Performing Arts

A performing arts center on the Brighton Area Schools campus that bills itself as Livingston County's premier theatre. Besides school and community shows, it books a professional season, heavy on music and family fun this year.

Broadway & big houses / Clinton Township

Macomb Center for the Performing Arts

A performing arts center on Macomb Community College's Center Campus in Clinton Township and home of the Macomb Symphony Orchestra.

1,271 seats

Broadway & big houses / Port Huron

McMorran Place

A city-owned entertainment complex in downtown Port Huron, open since 1960, with an arena and a 1,135-seat theater.

1,135 seats

Broadway & big houses / Flint

FIM Capitol Theatre

A 1928 John Eberson movie palace in downtown Flint, now a concert and performance venue run by the Flint Institute of Music.

2,000 seats

Broadway & big houses / Saginaw

Temple Theatre

A 1927 theater in downtown Saginaw, now part of the Shaheen Performing Arts Center, hosting touring concerts, symphony nights and comedy.

2,300 seats

Broadway & big houses / Kalamazoo

Miller Auditorium

Western Michigan University's performing arts hall in Kalamazoo, with roughly 3,500 seats.

Broadway & big houses / Cheboygan

Cheboygan Opera House

A historic opera house in downtown Cheboygan, nicknamed the 'Jewel of the North', presenting concerts, cabaret, musicals and films year-round.

582 seats

Broadway & big houses / Traverse City

City Opera House

An 1891 Victorian opera house in downtown Traverse City with about 680 seats, presenting singer-songwriter, roots, bluegrass and jazz concerts.

680 seats

Broadway & big houses / Ironwood

Historic Ironwood Theatre

A restored downtown movie palace in Ironwood marking its centennial in 2026 and the western Upper Peninsula's main stage for touring concerts.

732 seats

03 / Legends

Where the applause used to be

Closed, demolished or converted theaters. We keep their stories and their old contact details, because they’re Detroit too.

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Each bar is one building’s life, from opening night to the last show. Click one for its story.

1911–1975

National Theatre

Detroit

The last survivor of Detroit's first theatre district on Monroe Street and Albert Kahn's last known theatre, with twin domed towers and a great arched window. It went from vaudeville to movies to the city's last live burlesque house.

1859–1950

Avenue Theatre

Detroit

It opened in 1859 as a lecture hall, hosted an 1886 art show that helped lead to the DIA, then spent most of the 20th century as one of downtown's best-known burlesque houses. It came down in 1950.

1926–1975

Cass Theatre

Detroit

A Shubert-era playhouse on Lafayette Boulevard, across from the Free Press Building, that opened with an operetta in 1926 and later helped bring Cinerama to Detroit. It was torn down in 1977–78 for a parking lot.

1869–1966

Detroit Opera House (Campus Martius)

Detroit

A 19th-century theater on Campus Martius, not the same building as today's Detroit Opera House, that hosted touring stars until its 1966 demolition.

1914–1998

Fine Arts Theatre

Detroit

C. Howard Crane's little house on Woodward opened as a playhouse in 1914, spent decades as a movie theatre and in the 1990s ran on and off as a jazz, rap and comedy club. The building has stood largely empty since.

1887–1928

Garrick Theatre

Detroit

Downtown theater where Budapest-born Harry Houdini gave his last performance on October 24, 1926; closed in 1928 and razed in 1929.

1912–1958

Gayety Theatre

Detroit

Forty-six years of nothing but burlesque: the 1,362-seat Gayety on Cadillac Square ran from 1912 to 1958 and became the Detroit home of the Mutual Burlesque circuit in 1929.

1910–1927

Miles Theatre

Detroit

Griswold Street's 2,000-seat vaudeville house from 1910 to 1927, a rival of the Temple and the Garrick. The Griswold Building that replaced it still stands as The Albert.

1914–1931

Palace Theatre (Monroe Avenue)

Detroit

The last and largest vaudeville house built on Monroe Avenue, opened in 1914: C. Howard Crane called it the acme of his work so far, and with 23 exits it was billed as the safest theater in the world.

1914–1964

Shubert-Lafayette Theatre

Detroit

A vaudeville-turned-Broadway house on West Lafayette that Joseph Z. Nederlander helped run in its final decades, demolished in 1964 for a parking structure.

1901–1930

Temple Theatre

Detroit

Vaudeville house on Monroe Street opened in 1901 as part of the Wonderland entertainment complex, Harry Houdini's most frequent Detroit stage, later demolished for downtown redevelopment.

1905–1928

Theatre Comique

Detroit

One of C. Howard Crane's earliest theatres, near the Gratiot triangle: it opened in 1905 as a ten-cent vaudeville house and became the Theatre Comique in 1908, with an electric sign billed as the largest on any building in America.

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