MILLAN THEATRE COMPANY

Description

The Detroit Repertory Theatre is the oldest alternative professional theatre in Michigan. The theatre produces four major productions each year. Each production runs approximately eight weeks and is performed six times per week. The Repertory gives 180 or more performances a year. Last two seasons the Repertory totaled more than 60,000 admissions.

The Repertory seats 194 and operates under an Actors' Equity Association Small Professional Theatre contract. The Repertory owns its theatre and two other buildings. The two auxiliary buildings house backup facilities which include a scene shop, costume shop, design and photographic studios, print shop, and necessary rehearsal and instructional space.

History in Brief
The Detroit Repertory Theatre is one of a handful of neighborhood-based professional theatres in this country that still survives. It has become a model of grassroots artistic development and remains in the forefront of race transcendent casting, casting without regard to ethnicity (unless germane to the play) and when possible, gender.