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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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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

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Community theaters / Detroit

The Players Playhouse (The Players)

A gentlemen's amateur theatre club founded in 1911, in its own East Jefferson playhouse since 1925: a Florentine Renaissance facade with Parducci gargoyles, Paul Honore murals, and men playing every role, Shakespeare-style.

Since 1925

Community theaters / Rochester Hills

Avon Players Theatre

A volunteer-run community theatre in Rochester Hills, in a historic A-frame playhouse on Washington Road. Its production history starts with the 1947–48 season, and 2026–27 brings Twelve Angry Men, August: Osage County and Dear Evan Hansen.

Community theaters / Clarkston

Clarkston Village Players

Community theatre in an old train depot: Clarkston Village Players bought the town's former Grand Trunk station for $150 in 1962 and has played there since 1964. 2026–27 is its 65th season.

Since 1961

Community theaters / Wyandotte

Downriver Actors Guild at 2nd Street Performing Arts Center

Downtown Wyandotte's community theatre: the 2nd Street Performing Arts Center is home to Downriver Actors Guild, with a busy year-round season of musicals, plays and youth shows. 2026–27 is its 15th anniversary season.

Community theaters / Farmington Hills

Farmington Players Barn Theater

Community theatre in a real dairy barn on Twelve Mile Road in Farmington Hills. The all-volunteer Farmington Players have been at it since 1953, and 2026–27 is their 73rd season.

Community theaters / Dearborn

Players Guild of Dearborn

Dearborn's community theatre has been at it since 1927 and in its own house on Madison Street since 1949. The 2026-27 season is its 99th, so the centennial is in sight.

Since 1949

Community theaters / Troy

Ridgedale Players

A community theatre on stage since 1931, named by mashing up Pleasant Ridge and Ferndale. Today it plays Long Lake Road in Troy with musicals, plays and kids' shows.

Community theaters / Bloomfield Hills

St. Dunstan's Theatre

An all-volunteer theatre guild on the Cranbrook campus since 1932 that usually wraps its season with a June musical on the stone tiers of the outdoor Greek Theatre, 350 seats under the sky.

Since 1932350 seats

Community theaters / Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor Civic Theatre

Ann Arbor's community theatre since 1929, built on the idea that anyone can join in: intimate shows in its own studio and big musicals at U-M's Arthur Miller Theatre.

Since 1929

Community theaters / Ann Arbor

Burns Park Players

An Ann Arbor neighborhood theatre that puts on one big musical a year with a cast of adult neighbors, Burns Park Elementary kids and featured youth roles. Every adult who auditions gets cast.

Community theaters / Clio

Clio Cast & Crew (Theatre 57)

A volunteer community theatre in Clio, north of Flint, with its own house, Theatre 57, on West Vienna Road. The season opens with The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Since 1978

Community theaters / Adrian

Croswell Opera House

Michigan's oldest theater, in downtown Adrian since 1866, and one of the oldest continuously operating theaters in the country. It turns 160 in 2026: professional-caliber musicals with community casts.

Since 1866640 seats

Community theaters / Flint

Flint Community Players

Genesee County's oldest community theatre and, by its own account, the fourth oldest in Michigan: on stage since 1929, now in its own house on South Ballenger Highway.

Since 1929

Community theaters / Owosso

Lebowsky Center for Performing Arts

Downtown Owosso's 500-seat theatre and home of the Owosso Community Players: opened as the Capitol Theater in 1926, rebuilt after a 2006 fire, and staging four musicals and two plays a season.

Since 1926500 seats

Community theaters / Marshall

Marshall Civic Players

Marshall's community theatre since 1949, which moved into a new home in 2025: the brand-new Marshall High School Auditorium for Performing Arts. Season 78 brings musicals and a kids' show.

Since 1949

Community theaters / Grand Rapids

Dog Story Theater

A small black-box stage on State Street SE in Grand Rapids that local companies, comedians and performers rent for their own shows. The new Dog Star Series adds three bigger productions a year.

Community theaters / Kalamazoo

Face Off Theatre Company

A Kalamazoo company staging plays by and about Black Americans since 2015. It moves between venues, including Kalamazoo College's Festival Playhouse.

Since 2015

Community theaters / Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids Civic Theatre

Michigan's largest community theatre celebrates its centennial in 2026-27 at the restored 1903 Meijer Majestic Theatre. Annie arrives in November, Dear Evan Hansen in February and Les Miserables in June.

Since 1903

Community theaters / Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo Civic Theatre

One of America's leading community theatres since 1929, with three stages near Bronson Park. Season 98 brings a dozen productions, from The Wizard of Oz to Fences.

Since 1931503 seats

Community theaters / Buchanan

Tin Shop Theatre

A small community theatre in downtown Buchanan, in an 1865-66 building that has been a furniture factory, a lumber business, a plant and, in the 1918 flu epidemic, a hospital. In November: Ladies First, about Jackie Kennedy.

Community theaters / Petoskey

Little Traverse Civic Theatre

The volunteer community theater of Petoskey and the Little Traverse Bay area since 1945. Along with its season, it stages an annual Rocky Horror Picture Show shadowcast at local cinemas.

Since 1946

Community theaters / Detroit

Marlene Boll Theatre (Boll Family YMCA)

The performance hall inside the downtown Boll Family YMCA near Grand Circus Park, a rented home stage for Detroit companies without a house of their own. Detroit Dance Collective dances here, and Plowshares staged a 2026 world premiere here.

Community theaters / Detroit

Matrix Theatre Company

A Southwest Detroit community theatre in Mexicantown where Lindy Hop Detroit holds a swing dance on the second Tuesday of every month.

Community theaters / Howell

Community Theatre of Howell

Livingston County's own theatre company in Howell: plays and musicals with adult and youth casts from fall to spring, plus a summer youth camp. The 2025-26 season marked its 40th anniversary.

Community theaters / Port Huron

Enter Stage Right at The Citadel Stage

A nonprofit company in Port Huron's downtown theatre district that opens a new show almost every month in an intimate black-box space. The rows are stepped, so no seat is far from the stage.

Community theaters / Grosse Pointe Park

Grosse Pointe Theatre

Grosse Pointe's community theatre since 1947, with more than 300 volunteer members and over 336 main-stage productions. Since 2025 it plays the new Schaap Center, and the 2026–27 season opens with Les Misérables.

Since 1947

Community theaters / Livonia

Livonia Community Theatre

A volunteer community theatre in Livonia, playing the Fellowship Hall of Rosedale Gardens Presbyterian Church. The 2026–27 season brings Tales from the Scrypt, The Cake and Men on Boats, then Julius Caesar in the park in summer.

Community theaters / Monroe

Monroe Community Players

An all-volunteer nonprofit community theatre that has brought live theatre to the Monroe area for more than 75 years. Casting is open to all, and fall 2026 brings a stage version of Stephen King's Misery.

Community theaters / Pinckney

Pinckney Players (Jane Tasch Performing Arts Center)

Pinckney's community theatre plays a 900-seat school hall named for Jane Tasch, the teacher who got local theatre going. At the end of every show, a single flower is left on the empty stage in her memory.

Since 1980900 seats

Community theaters / Port Huron

Port Huron Civic Theatre

Port Huron's all-volunteer community theatre has been putting on shows since 1956, back on the big stage at McMorran Place since 1983, with several productions a year plus a summer workshop and a gala.

Since 1956

Community theaters / Richmond

Richmond Community Theatre

North Macomb County's community theatre has been on stage since 1965, in a former church turned auditorium. The 2026-27 season is already its 61st.

Since 1965

Community theaters / Warren

Warren Civic Theatre

A Warren community theatre that started in a rec-center gym in 1990 with about a dozen kids, where many shows use open casting: everyone who auditions gets a role.

Since 1990

Community theaters / Bay City

Bay City Players

It calls itself the oldest continuously operating community theatre in Michigan: 2026-27 is its 109th season, in its own house on Columbus Avenue.

Community theaters / Jackson

Center Stage Jackson

Jackson's volunteer-run community theatre, born in 2000 from the merger of two older groups, performing at Jackson College's Potter Center in the Baughman Theater.

Since 2000

Community theaters / Chelsea

Chelsea Area Players

Chelsea's volunteer community theatre since 1972: junior shows, a winter murder-mystery dinner theatre and a summer musical, every year.

Since 1972

Community theaters / Dexter

Dexter Community Players

Dexter's community theatre has been entertaining the town since 1981, with youth and adult casts. Next on their announced lineup is Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky.

Since 1981

Community theaters / Saginaw

Pit & Balcony Community Theatre

Saginaw's community theater since 1932, in a house its own members helped build. The name is a joke: there's no orchestra pit and no balcony, so everyone shares one room.

Since 1949

Community theaters / Lansing

Riverwalk Theatre

Lansing's all-volunteer community theater lives in a converted bus garage on the Grand River. Two stages, improv and radio plays: Season 38 runs from Come From Away to Mean Girls.

Since 1989

Community theaters / Jonesville

The Sauk

Hillsdale County's community theater in Jonesville: comedy classics, three musicals including Frozen, a holiday play and summer shows in the park.

Community theaters / Lansing

Starlight Dinner Theatre

Lansing's community dinner theater: dinner or dessert first, then a comedy, mystery or musical. Season 20 opens in fall 2026 with the comedy murder mystery The Butler Did It.

Since 2006

Community theaters / Grand Rapids

Actors' Theatre Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids' contemporary theatre company since 1980, performing in GRCC's 250-seat Spectrum Theater. If you like your plays fresh, this season is all Michigan premieres.

Since 1980250 seats

Community theaters / Dowagiac

Beckwith Theatre Company

Dowagiac's community theatre since 1990, started by residents who wanted to bring the town's stage heritage back. Every event is $15, and fall brings Wait Until Dark and A Christmas Carol.

Since 1990

Community theaters / Grand Rapids

Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids

Plays and musicals on Jewish themes, for everyone, since 1992. An idea born over coffee has turned into 87 productions; in December it's Jason Robert Brown's Parade.

Since 1992

Community theaters / Grand Rapids

Master Arts Theatre

A Christian community theatre on the south side of Grand Rapids, with its own house and family-friendly scripts. The Time Machine comes in October, It's A Wonderful Life for the holidays.

Community theaters / Muskegon

Muskegon Civic Theatre

Muskegon's community theatre, in residence at the downtown Frauenthal Center. Sondheim's Company opens the season in October, and Matilda closes it in spring.

Community theaters / Kalamazoo

Queer Theatre Kalamazoo

A Kalamazoo theater company devoted to queer plays and queer artists, now in its 13th season.

Community theaters / St. Joseph

Twin City Players

St. Joseph and Benton Harbor's volunteer community theatre has been putting on shows since 1932, now in its own playhouse on West Glenlord Road. Expect six main-stage productions a season, plus youth programs.

Since 1932

Community theaters / Traverse City

Old Town Playhouse

Traverse City's community theater, in a 1903 church that became a playhouse in 1975. A 277-seat MainStage, a Studio Theatre, youth and senior companies, and about 160 volunteer ushers.

Since 1975277 seats

Community theaters / Manistee

Ramsdell Theatre

A 1903 opera house in downtown Manistee, now a regional arts center.

489 seats

Community theaters / Escanaba

Players de Noc

Escanaba's community theatre, performing at the William Bonifas Fine Arts Center. It opens the season with a world premiere: Stag Light, a winner of AACT's national NewPlayFest 2026.

Community theaters / Sault Ste. Marie

Soo Theatre

A historic theater on Ashmun Street in downtown Sault Ste. Marie, now the Eastern Upper Peninsula's public performance space and arts school.

Community theaters / Canton

Spotlight Players

A nonprofit community theatre in Canton that rehearses and performs at The Village Theater at Cherry Hill, with a youth wing, Spotlight Jr. Players.

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Community theaters / St. Clair Shores

The St. Clair Shores Players

A volunteer, not-for-profit civic theatre in St. Clair Shores, putting on community shows since 1959. In summer 2026 their venue said it couldn't host the fall show, so they're hunting for a new stage.

Since 1959Being 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.

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1912–1936

Circle Theatre

Detroit

A Hastings Street house from 1912 to 1936: first the showplace of Detroit's Jewish community, staging Yiddish-language plays from 1921, then, as the Dunbar, a movie house in the heart of Black Bottom.

2014

Broadway OnStage Live Theatre

Eastpointe

A small theater on Kelly Road in Eastpointe and the home of Dennis Wickline Productions, which put on 33 seasons of local professional theater before bowing out in 2014 with the comedy Breaking Legs.

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