Festivals / Midtown / Cass Park (Masonic Temple)
Theatre Bizarre
A Halloween masquerade started by artist John Dunivant that filled eight floors of Detroit's Masonic Temple from 2011; the full masquerade hasn't been held since 2022.
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Founded around 2000, it drew up to about 5,000 guests at its peak, with 20+ musical acts (punk, rock, jazz, funk, marching bands, swing DJs), burlesque, sideshow acts and a strict costume dress code. It was canceled in 2020–2021 because of COVID-19, came back in 2022 and was canceled again in 2023 after a double-booking at the Masonic Temple, and the full masquerade hasn't returned since. For 2026 the team took “Devils in the Details: An Art Retrospectacle” to El Club on October 28–31, an exhibit of Theatre Bizarre art and costumes with burlesque, sideshow acts and bands; its 1,400 tickets sold out within 15 minutes.
- Eight floors of the Masonic Temple
- Strict costume dress code
- 2026 art show at El Club
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- Jack White born 1975 · guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer
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He paid $142,000 of the temple's back taxes in 2013 and its Scottish Rite cathedral became the Jack White Theater. He played the longest show of his career here in 2014 and married onstage here in 2022.
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