Ruben Santiago-Hudson directs the NYC premiere of 'Paradise Blue,' a new drama by acclaimed playwright Dominique Morisseau, author of 'Skeleton Crew' and 'Pipeline. By Frank Scheck There’s a ...

With its smoky, seductive, immersive staging of Dominique Morisseau’s Paradise Blue, Studio Theatre turns up the heat and the suspense. Part of the playwright’s acclaimed Detroit Trilogy — which ...

It’s hard to escape the comparisons to August Wilson in Dominique Morisseau’s jazz-inflected period drama “Paradise Blue,” part of a trilogy of plays set in different time periods in Morisseau’s ...

Left to right: Netty McKenzie as Pumpkin, Cycerli Ash as Silver in Paradise Blue at Portland Playhouse. Credit: photo by Shawte Sims In Dominique Morisseau’s Paradise Blue, the year is 1949, Detroit’s ...

Alexandria Danielle King, Durrell Lyons, Darian Michael Garey and Dereks Thomas in "Paradise Blue" at Gloucester Stage Company. (Courtesy Jason Grow) The power of poetry is undeniable. The best poets ...

Back in the 1930s and 1940s, a prosperous, predominantly Black community thrived just east of downtown Detroit. By the 1960s, that neighborhood, known as Black Bottom, and its commercial district ...

This post was updated Nov. 28 at 10:33 p.m. Paradise isn’t always what it seems, especially in this Detroit jazz club. Running until Dec. 12, the Geffen Playhouse’s production of “Paradise Blue” ...

“Paradise Blue,” one of the three plays in Dominique Morisseau’s “Detroit Project” series chronicling the generational struggles of the Black community in her native city, takes place in a jazz joint ...

The group ZEROBASEONE will unveil its first physical album in the United States. ZEROBASEONE (Seong Han-bin, Kim Ji-woong, Zhang Hao, Seok Matthew, Kim Tae-rae, Ricky, Kim Kyu-bin, Park Geon-wook, Han ...

The Signature Theatre production of this Dominique Morisseau play completes the playwright’s three-play cycle of “The Detroit Project.” The scene of “Paradise Blue,” Dominique Morisseau’s ...