Station Theatre Presents
Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau
Black Out Performance - February 9, 2025

AMERICAN THEATRE | Black Out: An Ongoing National Movement of Audience Curation
Why Black Out Nights Matter - Washington City Paper

What is a BLACK OUT?

A BLACK OUT is the purposeful creation of an environment in which an all-Black-identifying audience can experience and discuss an event in the performing arts, film, athletic, and cultural spaces – free from the white gaze.

A concept birthed by Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris, the inaugural BLACK OUT night took place on September 18, 2019. For the first time in history, all 804 seats of Broadway’s Golden Theatre were occupied by Black-identifying audience members in communion, celebration, and recognition of Broadway’s rich, diverse, and fraught history of Black work. Based on the success of the first BLACK OUT, Slave Play hosted a second BLACK OUT on January 8, 2020, to bookend its Broadway run. Since then, other BLACK OUT events have organically taken hold […] It is the hope of Harris, that “this outreach will snowball into more representation of Black bodies, both onstage and off.”

SKELETON CREW by Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Lisa Gaye Dixon

At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each of the workers have to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under. Shanita has to decide how she'll support herself and her unborn child, Faye has to decide how and where she'll live, and Dez has to figure out how to make his ambitious dreams a reality. Power dynamics shift as their manager Reggie is torn between doing right by his work family, and by the red tape in his office. Powerful and tense, Skeleton Crew is the third of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit cycle trilogy. 

Faye - Misty Martin
Dez - Marshawn Bingham
Shanita - Chyann Thomas
Reggie - Davion Williams
Ensemble & Understudy - Tyren Ollie
Ensemble & Understudy - Brooke Foreman