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Education News
By Logan Culwell-Block | 05/07/2021Financial gifts from Tonya Pinkins and Stefaniyemiya Ingram paved the way for 13 additional scholarships to be awarded beyond the first-, second-, and third-place winners this year. -
Industry News
By Logan Culwell-Block | 05/06/2021The four-night online event will spotlight Black femme identifying artist-activists and the projects they've worked on over the last six months.
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Theatre Alternatives
By Logan Culwell-Block | 04/30/2021With a cast including Joaquina Kalukango and Rob Demery, the reading launches Roundabout Theatre Company's Refocus Project.
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Black Lives Matter
By Logan Culwell-Block | 03/17/2021Created in collaboration with Black Theatre United, the initiative seeks to elevate and restore marginalized plays to the American canon.
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Special Features
By Dan Meyer | 03/12/2021Industry members need your support as theatres remain dark a full year after the Broadway shutdown.
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Industry News
By Logan Culwell-Block | 03/09/2021The Artistic Circle will provide financial and institutional support to early-to-mid career BIPOC producers currently developing projects.
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Industry News
By Andrew Gans | 02/26/2021Additionally, Zhailon Levingston has been promoted to director of industry initiatives for the arts-based advocacy organization.
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Industry News
By Dan Meyer | 02/17/2021Seven months later, over 100 theatre organizations have responded with action to BIPOC demands.
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Benefits and Galas
By Andrew Gans | 02/16/2021Carin Ford and Lisa Dawn Cave guest host Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley's daily series.
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Cast Recordings & Albums
By Logan Culwell-Block | 02/10/2021Black Writers Amplified will include new work from both established and emerging Black musical theatre writers.
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London News
By Andrew Gans | 02/09/2021Terera penned the work as he observed life over a tumultuous summer in lockdown.
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Black Lives Matter
By Dan Meyer | 01/19/2021Black National Theatre, Negro Ensemble Company, and AUDELCO are just a few of the recipients.
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Education News
By Logan Culwell-Block | 01/19/2021The new scholarship program provides financial support and mentorship to BIPOC aspiring theatre-makers.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 01/18/2021The play by Katori Hall follows Martin Luther King, Jr. over a single night in the Memphis motel.
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Theatre Alternatives
By Dan Meyer | 01/18/2021The virtual event streams at 11 AM ET.
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Black Lives Matter
By Logan Culwell-Block | 01/11/2021Participants will spend a summer in residence at the Festival in a "work and learn" experience.
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Interview
By Dan Meyer | 12/31/2020The non-binary artist talks about LiME, a work that started as a poem and is on its way to becoming a fully-fledged production.
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Theatre Alternatives
By Talaura Harms | 12/28/2020Plus: Native Son has shared profiles of 101 Black gay and queer men—including several in the theatre—who've made an impact in 2020.
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Black Lives Matter
By Dan Meyer | 12/23/2020The Slave Play producer has been busy since the Tony-nominated play by Jeremy O. Harris ended its limited run
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Film & TV Features
By Dan Meyer | 12/14/2020The August Wilson Monologue Competition documentary follows several students as they compete for a spot to perform on Broadway.
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Industry News
By Logan Culwell-Block | 12/10/2020The two-time Pulitzer-winner will be honored with the 44th stamp in the United States Postal Service's Black Heritage series.
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Industry News
Months After Inequity Reckoning, Flea Theater Discontinues The Bats and Other Resident Artist GroupsBy Ryan McPhee | 12/05/2020In June, the Off-Off-Broadway theatre said it would commit to paying its artists for future programming. Now, it’s unclear what that programming might be.
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Industry News
By Dan Meyer | 12/04/2020Two Black womxn, each receiving a $50,000 commission, will be selected in the inaugural year.
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Black Lives Matter
By Dan Meyer | 12/03/2020The Thoughts of a Colored Man producer wants to create a new theatrical landscape where BIPOC narratives are the norm.
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Industry News
By Dan Meyer | 12/03/2020Broadway & Beyond: Access for Stage Managers of Color welcomes Tony-winning director Kenny Leon for its first event in December.
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Education News
By Andrew Gans | 12/01/2020Participants will learn the fundamentals of commercial producing, with experienced BIPOC and white ally leaders as their guides.
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Industry News
By Andrew Gans | 11/23/2020The group of 10 Black womxn will be provided financial support, mentorship, networking opportunities, and education workshops.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 11/19/2020The special digital production is a benefit for Stand Up To Cancer and the Equity in the Arts and Culture Committee of the Brooklyn NAACP.
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Black Lives Matter
By Logan Culwell-Block | 11/17/2020Applications are now open for this paid program that will see artists and law students collaborating on change-making performance pieces.
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Cabaret & Concert News
By Andrew Gans | 11/17/2020Hosted by Amber Iman, the evening benefits the Cody Renard Richard Scholarship Program.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 11/13/2020Kenny Seymour and Stephen Oremus talk MUSE’s founding—plus, information on the November 14 free event.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 11/11/2020An interview with the writer of Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical and the upcoming bio-musical Mandela.
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Industry News
By Ryan McPhee | 11/11/2020Risa Shoup will continue to serve as interim executive director at the Off-Off-Broadway organization.
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Black Lives Matter
By Ruthie Fierberg | 11/10/2020Since its establishment in June, the organization established by Black theatre artists like Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Allyson Tucker, and more, has gotten to work.
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Black Lives Matter
By Dan Meyer | 11/04/2020Teaming up with Questlove, Tony Cornelius, Anthony E. Zuiker, Live Nation’s Shawn Gee, and his co-lead producers Matthew Weaver and Jeffrey Tick, this producer brings Soul Train to Broadway.
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Black Lives Matter
By Dan Meyer | 11/03/2020The producer had four productions as part of the announced 2019–2020 season including the Jake Gyllenhaal-Tom Sturridge Tony nominee Sea Wall/A Life and fellow Tony-nominated play The Sound Inside.
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Black Lives Matter
By Dan Meyer | 11/02/2020How this man combined his law degree, business acumen, and love of theatre to become a Broadway producer.
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Black Lives Matter
By Dan Meyer | 11/01/2020The powerhouse press agent is also a no-nonsense producer. Why she thinks fixing a communication breakdown can lead to major industry change.
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Black Lives Matter
By Dan Meyer | 10/31/2020The four-time Tony-nominated duo behind the all-Black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Eclipsed, and more reveal their path to success.
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Black Lives Matter
By Dan Meyer | 10/30/2020If we want more diverse stories, more representative casting, more inclusive staffs, it begins with producers. We illuminate the names behind the marquee lights working to change theatre from the inside.
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Industry News
By Dan Meyer | 10/29/2020The Industry Standard Group is founded by Rashad V. Chambers, Miranda Gohh, Adam Hyndman, Toni R. Isreal, and more.
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Video
By Ryan McPhee | 10/29/2020The new PSA from Claim Our Space features Hamilton alums Krystal Joy Brown, Ryan Vasquez, Ashley de la Rosa, and more.
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Music Video
By Andrew Gans | 10/20/2020The video, with musicians and performers recording in isolation, supports the Black Lives Matter movement and urges viewers to vote.
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Education News
By Andrew Gans, Dan Meyer | 10/14/2020The program was launched by Douglas Lyons as part of The Directors Company.
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Industry News
By Andrew Gans, Dan Meyer, Ryan McPhee | 10/07/2020Plus: Tidtaya Sinutoke has been named the recipient of the sixth annual Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award.
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Industry News
By Dan Meyer | 10/01/2020The "The Black Seed" initiative is kickstarted by a $5 million gift from the Mellon Foundation.
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Industry News
By Ryan McPhee | 10/01/2020Looking at works on Broadway and at major Off-Broadway companies, 38.5 percent of roles were filled by non-white performers, indicating limited progress.
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Book News
By Andrew Gans | 10/01/2020Abrams Children's Books will publish the new tome next year.
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Special Features
By Ryan McPhee | 09/28/2020The Tony-winning ArtsVote advocate, Black Theatre United co-founder, and Actors Fund chairman is not short on titles—or calls to action.
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Industry News
By Dan Meyer | 09/28/2020Taylor will direct and curate four short works for a live streaming theatre festival.
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