2026/2027

The Healing Pulse: Mental Health in Black Homes

This season, Pulse turns inward.

The 2026/2027 season centers mental health within Black communities and households : the silences, the survival, the strength, and the stigma. We are interrogating the reverence of American theatre by refusing to sanitize pain or romanticize resilience. Instead, we ask: What does healing look like when the door is closed? Who gets to rest? Who gets to unravel? Who gets to be held?

For generations, Black families have carried grief, brilliance, faith, rage, humor, and endurance; often without space to name the weight. This season creates that space.

We are exploring:

• Generational trauma and inherited silence

• Masculinity and emotional suppression

• Black joy as resistance

• Faith, therapy, and cultural stigma

• Caretaking, survival, and softness

• The cost of being “strong”

True to our values, this work will be visceral and honest, but guided by love. Our trauma-informed practice ensures that the container is strong enough for the stories we tell and the conversations they spark.

Pulse remains both platform and sanctuary. This season is not about spectacle. It is about recognition. It is about truth-telling. It is about breaking archetypes of the “strong Black family” and expanding what vulnerability can look like onstage and off.

We believe theatre is a living pulse. |
This season, the pulse is healing.

2026 PROGRAMMING:

RITUAL & RHYTHM an immersive reading series

JULY 10- JULY 19, 2026

• CITY OF WATER | JULY 10-12 ‍ ‍‍ ‍by Isis Elizabeth | Directed by Lo Williams

• RHYME DEFERRED | JULY 17-19 ‍by Kamilah Forbes‍ with Chadwick Boseman Lyrics by Chadwick Boseman

  Additional Lyrics by

  Oberon K.A. Adjepong & Jabari Exum

  Directed by Aaron Reese Boseman

FALL MAINSTAGE : 2026

DETROIT ‘67

September 11- November 1, 2026

Written by Dominique Morisseau

Directed by Aaron Reese Boseman