Celebrating 60 Years of the Meadow Brook Theatre

Celebrating 60 Years of the Meadow Brook Theatre

For 60 years, Meadow Brook Theatre has stood as a local landmark for arts and culture. The sprawling late midcentury modern building is tucked into Oakland University’s campus in Rochester Hills. Billed as “Michigan’s Answer to Broadway,” the theater has weathered decades of change. Its story begins in 1966 with John Fernald, the former head of London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Fernald relocated to Michigan to establish a professional resi…