Why Detroit II?

Artistic directors from two Detroit theater companies talk about theater and the city

 

Why DETROIT?

Why THEATER?

What is the FUTURE

of THEATER?

What is the FUTURE

of DETROIT?

Another in a series of thedetroiter.com's 4-question interviews with local personalities. This time out we spotlight the artistic directors of two of Detroit's most compelling theater companies. Both A.D.s had Eminem on the mind, as well as the shifting nature of the city, and their own changing ideas about where their theaters are headed. And both offered a vision of change in Detroit based on individual action. - As told to John Sousanis.

 

 

 

 

Oliver Pookrum - African Renaissance Theater of Detroit

 

 

 

York Griffith - Planet Ant Theatre