Virginia Stage Company is dedicated to creating an inclusive space where all feel welcomed at the Wells Theatre. Since 2014, a performance of A Christmas Carol has been designated as Theater for Everyone, a performance specially designed as a theater experience for patrons of all abilities (with and without special needs).
For five days in 1967, Detroit was embroiled in dissension. Rebellion was in the air and city streets resembled war zones. Considered part of the national riots known as the โlong, hot summer of 1967,โ unrest in Detroit began when the police department raided an unlicensed, after-hours bar on the cityโs West Side. This week, the Virginia Stage Company begins to bring that chaos and conflict to the stage in its production of โDetroit โฒ67.โ
Thereโs been just a few days for the Atlanta-based director and playwright, Thomas W. Jones II, to get his bearings here in Norfolk, as rehearsals for the play that heโs here to direct, Detroit โ67, begin in earnest. The Dominique Morisseau penned drama is being produced by Virginia Stage Company at the Wells Theatre, and follows the companyโs excellent production of Guys and Dolls, which just launched VSCโs 41st season last month.
โThere were new manufacturing jobs in Detroit, and with that came people moving out of apartment-like and project-like homes into two-story and one-story homes. With a home came a space called โa basementโ, which for Black middle-class life (and for my life growing up) was a repository of dreams. It was a place where you went to imagine โฆโ
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