In 1949, Detroit’s Blackbottom neighborhood is gentrifying. Blue, a troubled trumpeter and the owner of Paradise Club, is torn between remaining in Blackbottom with his loyal lover Pumpkin and leaving behind a traumatic past. But when the arrival of a mysterious woman stirs up tensions, the fate of Paradise Club hangs in the balance.
Paradise Blue is the first production of Obie Award-winning playwright Dominique Morisseau’s Signature Residency
2012 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award Winner







