Dominique Morisseau: 4 books

Three provocative dramas, Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew, make up Dominique Morisseau’s The Detroit Project, a play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit. Each play sits at a cross-section—of race and policing, of labor and recession, of property ownership and gentrification—and...

Pipeline had its premiere at Lincoln Center Theater (Off-Broadway) in the summer of 2017. Dominique Morisseau won the 2015 Steinberg Playwright Award for promising dramatists. Morriseau is an actor and playwright. She has been Award the NAACP Image Award twice for outstanding achievements...

It's 1967 in Detroit. Motown music is getting the party started, and Chelle and her brother Lank are making ends meet by turning their basement into an after-hours joint. But when a mysterious woman finds her way into their lives, the siblings clash over more much more than the family business. As...

Kenyatta Shakur is alone. His wife has died, andnow, this one time Black Revolutionary and politicalprisoner, is desperate to reconnect with his estrangeddaughter Nina. If Kenyatta truly wants to reconcilehis past, he must first conquer his most challengingrevolution of all – fatherhood.