The Great Gatsby - Theatrical Production

The Great Gatsby - Theatrical Production at Fisher Theatre - MI

The glamour is only the surface of Gatsby's dream. The Great Gatsby brings the romantic longing beneath F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel to Fisher Theatre in Detroit on Sunday, November 22, 2026, at 1:00 PM. In this Tony-winning musical, love and wealth sit alongside ambition, giving a familiar Roaring Twenties world a personal conflict to follow.

Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen's original score draws on jazz and pop, offering a different way to engage with the story. Kait Kerrigan supplies the book, with direction by Marc Bruni and choreography by Dominique Kelley. For musical-theatre fans, that creative combination is a reason to discover the adaptation in its own right, alongside an attachment to the novel.

Choose the matinee with someone who enjoys a romance with consequences. You might share an affection for Fitzgerald or come with different interests, one drawn to the score and the other to the characters. The performance gives those interests a specific occasion, with room to compare what you make of the hopes beneath the glamour afterward.

The Sunday 1:00 PM performance gives you room to enjoy Gatsby's world without turning the whole evening over to it. But the story won't necessarily leave you when the curtain falls: its romance is tangled up with money, memory and the cost of refusing to move on. At Fisher Theatre, the score brings that tension into the open. Take someone who loves a complicated love story and discover tickets for The Great Gatsby's matinee.