This April, southwest Detroit’s Matrix Theatre Company will celebrate a remarkable milestone: a quarter century of bringing unique performances to Detroit audiences. But before its formal birthday party, which will take place at a ticketed gala at the Gem Theatre on June 16, there is an even more appropriate way to celebrate Matrix’s legacy of theatre, community, and social justice in Detroit—by checking out the company’s latest production, “agua de luna (psalms for the rouge),” a play comissioned especially for the theater’s silver anniversary debuting later this month.

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