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The Marlene Boll Theatre is the home of The Detroit Mercy Theatre Company.

Address: 1401 Broadway Street, Detroit, Michigan 48226

Located inside the Boll Family YMCA, the Marlene Boll Theatre is an intimate theatre space in the heart of downtown Detroit.  Fantastic restaurants, energetic bars, and historic architecture surrounds this thrust style performance space.  You're invited to make an evening of dining, entertainment, and night caps in beautiful downtown Detroit.  Awaken your imagination at with a Detroit Mercy Theatre Company performance! 

Seating: Seating is general admission and is limited by show.

Accessibility: The Boll Family YMCA is accessible to people using wheelchairs or with restricted mobility. Wheelchair accessible seats are available at The Marlene Boll Theatre.  Please contact the Detroit Mercy Theatre Company Ticket Office at 313-993-3270 or theatre@udmercy.edu prior to performance to make arrangements.

Social Narrative: Visiting the Marlene Boll Theatre

Inside The Marlene Boll Theatre.  The above picture is a view from stage right/house left.

Inside The Marlene Boll Theatre.  The above picture is a view from the main section.

Ticket Office Hours 

Location: DMTC's Ticket Office is located in Briggs 121 on Detroit Mercy's McNichols Campus.

Hours (September - April): Tuesday-Thursday, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

The ticket office is closed during the summer holiday. Tickets can be purchased anytime online at

On performance days, the Ticket Office will open at The Marlene Boll Theatre 45 minutes prior to curtain and will stay open through intermission of each performance.

Ticket Prices 

Individual Ticket Packages

Individual ticket packages

• Adult Ticket - Play: $25; Musical: $30
• Senior Tickets - Play: $18; Musical: $22
• Faculty/Staff and Alumni Tickets - Play: $18; Musical: $22
• Student (ages 6-college) and Veteran Tickets (with valid ID) - Play: $10; Musical: $15

*Please note that a $3 service fee is included in each ticket to cover ticket and processing costs.

Have a group? 

Discounts are available for groups larger than 10. Contact the Detroit Mercy Theatre Company Ticket Office at 313-993-3270 or theatre@udmercy.edu prior to performance to make arrangements.

High School Students

High school students and guests receive free tickets to Detroit Mercy Theatre Company shows!  Contact the Detroit Mercy Theatre Company Ticket Office at 313-993-3270 or theatre@udmercy.edu prior to performance to make arrangements.

Street Parking

Street parking is available around The Marlene Boll Theatre at the Boll Family YMCA. Please follow all street parking signs.  Free Parking on Sundays. Consider paying for your street parking with .

Best Option

$7 flat parking at the : Entrances on Grand River Ave. and Gratiot Ave.
Patrons parking at The Z Lot will enter the structure and park. The Z Lot uses license plate technology to capture your license plate. While at the Theatre Company performance, visit the ticket office to receive a QR code to scan on your mobile device to validate your parking and receive the $7 parking rate. Please note that the Z Lot does not accept cash, nor are there attendants on site. 

Please note: a $0.99 service fee is applied for each visit.

Other Options

Greektown Casino – Free parking most days. Walk 6 blocks to the Boll Theatre or take the to the Broadway stop. Check ahead on .

MGM Grand Casino  – Free parking. Then Uber or Lyft, $6-$10 each way

Motor City Casino – Free parking. Then Uber or Lyft, $6-$10 each way

Mario’s Italian Restaurant – Free Shuttle if you dine before the show. 4222 Second St. 313.832.1616 call for reservations and details.

Validated parking

Validated parking is available by dining at these establishments:

Wright & Co.  - 1500 Woodward Ave (The Z Lot)

Standby - 225 Gratiot Avenue (The Z Lot)

Joe Muir Seafood – GM Ren Cen (People Mover to the Broadway stop)

Andiamo Detroit Riverfront - GM Ren Cen (People Mover to the Broadway stop)

Granite City Food & Brewery - GM Ren Cen (People Mover to the Broadway stop)

Policies

• Vaccines and Testing: The DMTC will no longer require audiences to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to attend performances.
• Masks: Masks are optional although recommended at all performances. Masks may be required if Wayne County and surrounding communities are in the high or “red” category as defined by the CDC. 六九色堂 masking guidelines: udmercy.edu/health/advisories

Ticket sales pay for only 60% of our production costs. With the help of devoted theatre supporters and the generosity of grant makers we are able to close the gap and continue to excel in ways only our theatre can. Help us continue our tradition of outstanding theatre at an affordable price by pledging a contribution today.

Tax-deductible contributions provide better productions for our students and audience. Scholarship contributions are needed as well and go directly to the students to help with educational costs.

Your gift to the Detroit Mercy Theatre Company qualifies as an itemized tax deduction under federal law and as a tax credit under Michigan law. Your generous support truly makes a difference in the quality of programs we are able to offer. To make a donation or for more information please contact Anna Dietrich at 313-993-1429 or dietriam@udmercy.edu.

To donate to the Black Box Theatre Project, visit here.

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For more information about our past shows, including photos, visit our

PRODUCTION HISTORY (1971– 2024)

Award Winning Productions & World, Midwest or Michigan Premieres

The Tempest – Child’s Play – Lysistrata – You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown – All That Fall – A View From the Bridge – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Comedy of Errors – Of Mice and Men – Abelard & Heloise – The Horse – Luv – Rashomon – Othello – Wizard of Oz – Dylan – Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Little Me – A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream – Blood Wedding – The Trial – Godspell – Arsenic and Old Lace – The Me Nobody Knows – Macbeth – Charley’s Aunt – Inquest – Trojan Women – Two Gentlemen of Verona – House of Blue Leaves – U.S.A – A Cry of Players – A Streetcar Named Desire – Taming of the Shrew – Boys in the Band – Brig – Vanities – The Runner Stumbles – Christmas Carol – Lower Depths – Little Mary Sunshine – Irma La Douce – Benito Cereno – Caucasian Chalk Circle – Imaginary Invalid – Moonchildren – As You  Like It – Fantasticks – Medal of Honor Rag  – Great White Hope – Private Lives – Once Upon a Mattress – Medea et la Force de Voodoo – American Buffalo – Captain Cook – Light Up the Sky – La Ronde – Devour the Snow – Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds – Apple Tree – Butley – Terra Nova – Arms and the Man – Home – Man of La Mancha – Lady From Dubuque – Waltz of the Toreadors – Heat – Amahl and the Night Visitors – Waiting for the Parade – Kismet – Wise Child – Philemon – Paul Robeson – Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean – Mass Appeal – Tartuffe – Glass Menagerie – Concerning Poor B. B. – What I Did Last Summer – Lion in Winter – Boesman and Lena – Mister Roberts – Talking With – Accidental Death of an Anarchist – Wizard Oz – Holy Ghosts – Creeps – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – On the Verge – Bury the Dead – Loot – A Taste of Honey – Grandma Duck is Dead – Orphans – Malice Aforethought: The Sweet Trials – Cradle Song – Wild Honey – Foreigner – Lily Dale – Total Abandon – Servant of Two Masters – Two – Enter Laughing – Strange Snow – Shooting Stars – A Different Moon – Talk Radio – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – T-Bone ‘N Weasel – Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille – Two by Two – Vital Signs – Boys Life – In the Belly of the Beast – Museum – Speed of Darkness – Lloyd’s Prayer – Rimers of Eldritch – Criminal Hearts – Women in Bars – White Rose – Dresser – A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich – Jugger’s Rain – Pick Up Ax – Woyzeck – Tent Meeting – Six Women With Brain Death – Steel Magnolias – Gravity of Honey – Roomers – Day Room – 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress – Love Letters – All in the Timing  - My Sister in this House – Time of Your Life – Drinking in America – On the Open Road – Sly Fox – Below the Belt – Home Fires – Greensboro: a Requiem – Zara Spook and Other Lures – Little Joe Monaghan – Blue Window – A Lie of the Mind – Steward of Christendom – Chekhov – Wayside Motor Inn – Biloxi Blues – Death of a Salesman – Skylarks – Dumb Winter  - King Korn Trio – The Lark – Stop Kiss – Brutality of Fact – Between Daylight and Boonville – Race – Last Train to Nibroc – Sand Mountain – Member of the Wedding – The Children’s of Fact – Grandma Duck is Dead – Frannie’s Way – Runner Stumbles – Diviners – Lobby Hero – Glory of Living – Robber Bridegroom – Moonlight Room – Cycling Past the Matterhorn – A Patch of Earth – Godspell – Our Town – Sez She – Of Mice and Men – Polish Joke – Malice Aforethought: The Sweet Trials – Urinetown – Glass Menagerie – Back of the Throat – And Neither Have I Wings to Fly – The Play About the Baby – The Sunshine Boys – How I Learned to Drive – Speech and Debate – The Threepenny Opera – The Winning Streak – The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Recent Tragic Events – Unheard Voices - Trying – Keely and Du – Cabaret – A Life in the Theatre – The Tempest – Eleemosynary – Anatomy of Gray – Dogman’s Last Stand – Autobahn – None of the Above – The Empire Builders – Wings – A Cabaret Showcase – Jordan Anderson Writes A Letter – Pvt. Wars – This Is How It Goes – Somebody/Nobody – Memory House – The Best of Enemies – It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play – Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – The Whale – It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play – Low Hanging Fruit – An Evening With David L. Regal – Alabama Story – 100 Saints You Should Know – Bus Stop – Avenue Q – Preview 47 – A Bright Room Called Day – A Bright New Boise – The Complete History of America (abridged) – Preview 48 - Wittenberg - War of the Worlds The Panic Broadcast – American Privilege – Young Frankenstein – Silent Sky – Ebenezer – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Project TikTok – Mock Theatre Production – Hitchcocked! An Audio Serial – One Act Play Festival - Antigone - The Norwegians - The Addams Family Musical - Airness - Pride and Prejudice - Unheard Voices: Afro-Brazilian Diaspora - A Year with Frog and Toad - Photograph 51 - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)[revised][again]

Detroit Mercy Theatre Company Land Acknowledgment can be found here: 六九色堂's Land Acknowledgment

Detroit Mercy Theatre Company Antiracist Theatre Statement

RECOGNITION STATEMENT 

In the Department of Performing Arts at the 六九色堂 and Detroit Mercy Theatre Company (DMTC), we strive to be inclusive, equitable, and open.  

Detroit is one of the largest majority Black cities in the United States, with approximately 77.9% of residents who participated in the most recent Census identifying as Black.1  The Detroit metropolitan area includes communities and peoples of various ethnicities, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and religions, which in turn is reflected in our student body, alumni, faculty and staff, and audiences. 

Despite this diversity, we acknowledge that the Department of Performing Arts and DMTC has historically prioritized whiteness at the disservice of the students and communities of color it serves. We acknowledge that systemic racism is pervasive, and that academic and theatrical communities require transformative measures in order to sustain student artists. 

We stand with diverse communities in the pursuit of equity and justice.  In order to create a more just and equitable theatre, and to provide the best learning environment for all students, we acknowledge there must be active change. Through concrete policy and structural changes outlined below that promote accountability, transparency, and trust, we pledge to work towards an anti-racist theatre. This policy will be reviewed annually and updated in both our Student Handbook and online. Additionally, our progress will be tracked through our yearly End of the Year report in May. 

1 U.S. Census Bureau. U.S. Department of Commerce.

COMMITMENT STATEMENT 

In addition to ongoing work and discussion, we commit ourselves to the following actions. 

We commit to creating a safe and inviting academic experience for all students.  This includes: 

• Expanding syllabi and learning tools to include important figures, authors, and artists from diverse and under-represented communities; 
• Engaging faculty and staff in yearly antiracist professional development workshops; 
• Revisiting our mentorship guidelines to remove barriers that might impede diverse voices;  
• Re-examining our hiring process and support system for our adjunct professors to create space for diverse applicants and faculty; 
• Supporting the 六九色堂’s ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts; 

• Partnering with the 六九色堂’s office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the effort to make our campus an inclusive and equitable place for all. 

We commit to restructuring our production process to include diverse and under-represented voices.  This includes: 

• Hiring diverse professional guest artists; 
• Providing equitable pay for professional guest artists; 
• Creating systems of support for professional guest artists; 

• Revising our season selection process to include diverse voices; 
• Choosing theatrical works that are relevant to under-represented communities; 
• Employing race transcendent casting practices when race is not a factor in the play as dictated by the script, and color conscious casting practices when race is a factor as dictated by the script.   

We commit to continued evaluation of both this statement and our practices as an academic department and theatrical company as we grow and learn in our pursuit of anti-racism. 

We understand that antiracism is ever evolving and requires continued actionable and transformative change.

Updated 7.31.2023