Teresa Coleman

Dallas Black Dance Theatre's Fundraising Event to Pay Tribute to Late Country Music Icon

Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s  (DBDT) annual fundraising event, The BIG Dance, features a Boot Scootin’ Boogie: Hometown Salute to Charley Pride, the late country music icon honored with the 2020 CMA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Listen: Season 3 of THE DRAMATISTS GUILD PRESENTS: TALKBACK Launches With Christine Toy Johnson & More

The Dramatists Guild of America is presenting the third season of their podcast, The Dramatists Guild Presents: TALKBACK, now available on all your favorite podcast platforms. The Dramatists Guild Presents: TALKBACK entertains frank conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Bishop Arts Theatre Center Opens Its 28th Anniversary Season With A New Play from Franky Gonzalez

The Bishop Arts Theatre Center will open its 28th anniversary season with a world premiere production of Franky Gonzalez's new play, Before You Get Married, running October 14 - 30, 2021.

Bishop Arts Theatre Center Opens Its 28th Anniversary Season With Franky Gonzalez' New Play

The Bishop Arts Theatre Center will open its 28th anniversary season with a world premiere production of Franky Gonzalez's new play, Before You Get Married. Gonzalez was recently named BATC's Playwright-in-Residence and will be primarily responsible for curating the season and developing workshops for local writers.

Franky Gonzalez Joins Bishop Arts Theatre as Playwright-in-Residence

Bishop Arts Theatre Center was among the first arts and cultural institutions in the country to receive a Shuttered Venues Operating Grant (SVOG) administered by Small Business Association’s Office of Disaster Assistance.

Theaters Join Forces For First Annual National BLACK MOTHERHOOD AND PARENTING NEW PLAY FESTIVAL

In October 2020, Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL) and Blackboard Plays announced an open call for submissions to The Black Motherhood* and Parenting New Play Festival.

Bishop Arts Theatre Presents MILMA'S TALE by Pulitzer Prize-Winner Lynn Nottage

Bishop Arts Theatre Center (BATC) is partnering with Portland, Oregon’s Profile Theatre to bring the audio version of Lynn Nottage’s Mlima’s Tale to Dallas audiences. Ms. Nottage is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, one for her script Ruined in 2009, the other for Sweat in 2017. Production dates for the audio play will run April 12 – May 8, 2021, and can be accessed on the BATC website.

Bishop Arts Theatre Presents THE MONOLOGUE PROJECT Workshop and Performance Series

Bishop Arts Theatre Center (BATC) partners with Pittsburgh artist Gab Cody to offer four online monologue-writing workshops led by nationally recognized writers France-Luce Benson, Pia Wilson, Stacey Rose and Amy Evans culminating in a public performance on Zoom.

Bishop Arts Theatre Center Presents Labor Day ME & MY MASKS Festival of Monologues

Roland Tec has partnered with Bishop Arts Center in Dallas and their Executive Producing Director Teresa Coleman Wash and by late June the call was going out to screenwriters, playwrights and solo performers all across the country to write and submit a monologue for their Zoom festival.