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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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Professional companies / Detroit

Plowshares Theatre Company

Plowshares calls itself Michigan's only professional African American theatre, out to preserve, present and produce African American experiences. It has no house of its own; in 2026 it staged a world premiere at the Marlene Boll Theatre.

Professional companies / St. Clair

Boardwalk Theatre (Thumbcoast Live Theaters)

Thumbcoast Live Theaters' biggest venue: 370 seats in riverfront downtown St. Clair, built for big musicals. Fall 2026 brings Chicago and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

370 seats

Professional companies / Rochester

Meadow Brook Theatre

A professional nonprofit theatre on Oakland University's Rochester campus since 1966, billing itself as Michigan's largest producing professional theatre. 2026–27 is Season 60, and the 44th A Christmas Carol opens November 20.

Since 1966

Professional companies / Trenton

Open Book Theatre Company

A professional theatre in Trenton that bills itself as Downriver Detroit's premier professional stage: contemporary plays and new work in an intimate, reconfigurable room where you're never far from the action.

Since 2014

Professional companies / Ferndale

The Ringwald Theatre

Metro Detroit's queer-identified theater company, staging campy LGBTQ-forward shows alongside classic plays and musicals inside Affirmations.

Since 2007

Professional companies / Marine City

Riverbank Theatre (Thumbcoast Live Theaters)

A 180-seat theatre in downtown Marine City, inside the old Marine Savings Bank building with the bank vaults still in place. Tiered and box seating, right on the St. Clair River.

Since 2014180 seats

Professional companies / Northville

Tipping Point Theatre

A professional theatre in downtown Northville: 143 seats, a room rearranged for every show and five plays and musicals a year. It all started with an idea sketched on a napkin.

143 seats

Professional companies / Flint

Flint Repertory Theatre

Flint's professional not-for-profit theatre in the Flint Cultural Center: world premieres, new musicals and fresh takes on classics, opening 2026-27 with August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

Since 2018

Professional companies / Ann Arbor

The Penny Seats Theatre Company

A professional nonprofit theater in downtown Ann Arbor staging dramas, comedies, musicals and new plays year-round, with a mission to keep tickets affordable.

Professional companies / Ann Arbor

Theatre Nova

Ann Arbor's professional theater that only does new plays, including world premieres, in a building called the Yellow Barn. Every show has pay-what-you-can tickets.

Since 2015

Professional companies / Williamston

Williamston Theatre

A fully professional Equity theater in downtown Williamston, about 20 miles east of Lansing. New plays, Michigan artists, intimate storytelling, and 2026-27 is its 20th season.

Since 2006

Professional companies / Detroit

Detroit Repertory Theatre

Michigan's longest-running professional nonprofit theatre: on the road since 1957, in its own 194-seat house on Woodrow Wilson Street since 1963. Four plays a year, race-transcendent casting and a 50-foot cocktail bar in the lobby.

Since 1963194 seats

Professional companies / Brighton

A Wilde Theatre

Livingston County's newest professional theatre, by its own description: five years in downtown Brighton and now raising money for a home of its own. Come watch a young company grow up right in front of you.

Professional companies / Pinckney

The Dio - Dining & Entertainment

A dinner theatre on Pinckney's main street, inside a 19th-century building that started as a town hall hosting vaudeville and opera. Dinner and the show come on one ticket.

Since 2013

Professional companies / Dexter

The Encore Musical Theatre Company

A professional Actors' Equity musical theater in Dexter, housed in the town's original 1800s school, now the Maas Theatre. Season 18 brings five musicals, from Sister Act to A Chorus Line, plus tribute concerts.

Since 2008

Professional companies / Lansing

Peppermint Creek Theatre Company

A Lansing company staging classic and contemporary plays about social issues since 1995. The 2026-27 season plays at the new Stage One Performing Arts Center.

Since 1995

Professional companies / Chelsea

The Purple Rose Theatre Company

Jeff Daniels' theater in Chelsea: new American plays, mostly world premieres, in a 168-seat house where no seat is more than 20 feet from the stage.

Since 1991168 seats

Professional companies / Kalamazoo

Farmers Alley Theatre

Kalamazoo's professional theatre since 2008: musicals, dramas and new comedies. Season 19 plays temporarily at Kalamazoo College's Festival Playhouse, with Come From Away in November.

Since 2008

Professional companies / Alpena

Thunder Bay Theatre

Downtown Alpena's theater, which calls itself Northeast Michigan's only year-round professional theater. After two fires and a six-year hiatus, it's wrapping up a roughly $2 million renovation.

Since 1983Being checked

Professional companies / Detroit

Black and Brown Theatre

A Detroit nonprofit theatre founded in 2016 to put the voices of people of color onstage, backstage and beyond. There's no home stage: it plays schools and community spaces in Northwest Detroit and Hamtramck.

Since 2016Being checked

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.

1900192019401960198020002020 Avenue Theatre · 1880–1950Avenue TheatreDetroit Opera House (Campus Martius) · 1880–1966Detroit Opera House (Campus Martius)Garrick Theatre · 1887–1928Garrick TheatreTemple Theatre · 1901–1930Temple TheatreBonstelle Theatre · 1902–2020Bonstelle TheatreTheatre Comique · 1905–1928Theatre ComiqueMiles Theatre · 1910–1927Miles TheatreNational Theatre · 1911–1975National TheatreCircle Theatre · 1912–1936Circle TheatreGayety Theatre · 1912–1958Gayety TheatreFine Arts Theatre · 1914–1998Fine Arts TheatrePalace Theatre (Monroe Avenue) · 1914–1931Palace Theatre (M…Shubert-Lafayette Theatre · 1914–1964Shubert-Lafayette TheatreCass Theatre · 1926–1975Cass TheatreCherry County Playhouse · 1955–2003Cherry County PlayhouseHilberry Theatre · 1964–2022Hilberry TheatreBoarsHead Theater · 1966–2009BoarsHead TheaterPerformance Network Theatre · 1981–2015Performance Network TheatreJewish Ensemble Theatre (JET) · 1989–2022Jewish Ensemble Theatre (JET)The Second City Detroit (Novi) · 1993–2009The Second City …Kickshaw Theatre · 2015–2020
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1981–2015

Performance Network Theatre

Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor's professional Equity theater started in 1981 as an arts collective, played the 139-seat Shure Theater near Kerrytown from 2000 with plenty of premieres, and closed at the end of 2015.

1962

Concept East Theatre

Detroit

Detroit's first Black theater company, founded in 1960 and based from 1962 at 401 East Adams Avenue, which launched Ernie Hudson and others to fame.

1989–2022

Jewish Ensemble Theatre (JET)

Walled Lake

It called itself the longest continuously running Jewish professional theater in North America: from 1989 to 2022 it staged four or five plays a year from a Jewish perspective, in its last years in downtown Walled Lake.

1966–2009

BoarsHead Theater

Lansing

Mid-Michigan's oldest professional resident theatre: a 250-seat Actors' Equity house in downtown Lansing from 1966 to 2009. It started in a barn and bowed out with a play written by two of its interns.

2015–2020

Kickshaw Theatre

Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor's nonprofit professional theater from 2015 to 2020: five seasons of contemporary plays in borrowed spaces around town, under an agreement with Actors' Equity.

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