Off-broadway Extension

Following huge demand and ecstatic reviews, Atlantic Theater Company's Skeleton Crew settles into a new Off-Broadway home for a month long extension. The third work in playwright Dominique Morisseau's Detroit Trilogy, Skeleton Crew is set in Motor City's "last plant standing", and centers on a group of factory workers coming to terms with the prospect of unemployment.

Naturalistic and astute, Ben Brantley of The New York Times compared it to the work of Arthur Miller and August Wilson in his review. All of the cast reprise their roles in this extension, while Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson directs.

What is Skeleton Crew About?

It's 2008 in Detroit, at the height of the recession, and four employees gather in the break room of their auto-stamping factory. They know full well that their plant faces closure at any moment, and with this spectre of redundancy hanging over them, the group's power dynamic and strongly forged bonds of friendship begin to shift, as each must choose what course their lives will take next.