Arts & Entertainment

'Palmer Park' at Baldwin Theatre

Just as the Trayvon Martin case in Florida has raised a range of issues -from racial profiling to definitions of self-defense - the drama, Palmer Park, paints a complex portrait of a Detroit neighborhood, and revisits the issues of that were forefront in 1968. The show runs May 11-20, at the  on the 2nd Stage, 415 S. Lafayette in downtown Royal Oak. 

The play’s namesake, Detroit’s stately neighborhood, in the aftermath of the 1967 riots that devastated the city is the setting for this provocative exploration of social class, community and race. The author, Joanna McClelland Glass says, “Palmer Park isn't so much about race as it is about the educational gulf between the haves and the have-nots.” Told with sensitive artistry and keen insight, this moving story still reverberates throughout the neighborhoods of Detroit and its suburbs today. 


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