Detroit, 1949. Welcome to Paradise, a jazz club that’s seen better days. Blue, the club’s trumpet-playing owner is ready to leave this town and his family demons behind. But his house band and his best girl have dreams of their own, so when hardboiled widow Silver enters the picture looking for some business and some pleasure, love, lust, and legacy collide in the fight for Paradise. Studio transforms the Victor Shargai Theatre into a jazz club for Dominique Morisseau’s (Pipeline, Skeleton Crew) music-filled drama about resilience, self-preservation, and community.
Runtime: TBD.
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Paradise Blue is generously underwritten by Bobbi and Ralph Terkowitz, with Josh O’Harra and Paul Massey & Albert G. Lauber and Craig Hoffman.
Dominique Morisseau is the author of The Detroit Project: Three Plays, including: Skeleton Crew (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), Paradise Blue, and Detroit ’67. Additional plays include Confederates, Pipeline, Sunset Baby, Blood at the Root, and Follow Me To Nellie’s. She is the Tony Award-nominated bookwriter on the Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations and is currently working on her latest, Hippest Trip - The Soul Train Musical. Television/Film credits include Shameless (co-producer and writer), the film adaptation of the documentary STEP (co-producer), and consultant on the Netflix animated feature, Tunga. Awards include Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Fellowship, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, two OBIE Awards, Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, and a MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow. In 2022, Dominique was awarded the key to the city by the Mayor of Detroit.
