Our Beginnings

Just a few short years ago, Theatre Thirty3 was an idea that was fun to kick around over coffee or cigars; a purely mental retreat several of us had for when the daily grind had ground us down just a little too far. But (paperwork and nonprofit statuses aside), what actually makes all of this happen is you. A show without an audience is just an acting exercise, and a theatre company without an audience is just...an idea over coffee.

In January and February of 2020, we were able to stage our first production, The Shape of Things, in association with the Detroit Institute of Arts and Oakland Community College. We were incredibly lucky to finish our run just weeks before Covid shut the world down. But our luck ran out in the summer of 2022, when Silent Sky (our intended second show) became yet another theatrical casualty of Covid.

We are cautiously excited for our upcoming production of CIrcle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker, opening this August at the Boll Family YMCA in downtown Detroit.