Diversity News

In 1998, in partnership with Smith Music Group, led by Rick Smith, Sr., Billy Bob's Texas began recording live performances from select artists taking the stage of the award-winning nightclub to be part of their Live at Billy Bob's Texas series. The series launched with back to back recordings of Pat Green and Merle Haggard. Now, in 2018, the famed series is celebrating its 20th Anniversary.

SHARK WEEK, television's longest-running event takes a bite out of summer for its 30th anniversary, premiering Sunday July 22 at 7:00PM ET/PT and continuing through Sunday, July 29. After three decades and hundreds of shows, SHARK WEEK 2018 celebrates this milestone with an all-star lineup of athletes and celebrities including Shaquille O'Neal, Ronda Rousey, Aaron Rodgers, Rob Gronkowski, Lindsey Vonn, Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Kevin O'Leary, Daymond John, Guy Fieri and Bear Grylls. In addition, SHARK WEEK's team of renowned scientists deliver all-new groundbreaking shark stories incorporating innovative research technology to reveal compelling insight into the mysterious world of sharks. Finally, SHARK WEEK 2018 will feature the most hours of shark programming ever on Discovery Channel with over twenty hours of celebrity surprises and jaws-dropping shark stories.

Organizers of the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival (Wednesday, September 12 - Saturday, September 22) announced the seventh annual festival's entire lineup and invited Rochester to "Join the PARTY" at their BIG REVEAL press conference this morning. For the first time, Rochester's Fringe will span 11 days, up from 10 for the past five years, and it will open on a Wednesday evening.

Lauded singer-songwriter Goapele kicks off the twenty-second season of the Skirball Cultural Center's Sunset Concerts on Thursday, July 26, at 8:00 p.m, with her deeply personal take on R&B, soul, funk, and hip-hop. The evening begins with DJ Mamabear of dublab, who will spin a set at 6:30 p.m.

After eight years of leadership, Colin Hovde will step down as the artistic director of Theater Alliance in June 2019, at the conclusion of the 18/19 Season. A search for his successor will begin this summer.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (@ArshtCenter) is pleased to announce the lineup for ARTSLAUNCH2018, a FREE annual celebration to kick off Miami's arts season and celebrate the Center's official box office opening on Saturday, September 8*.

The Archives of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art present "Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic," an afternoon of conversations with artists, activists, and historians that will focus on artists' responses to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s on Friday, July 13th from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. at the Whitney Museum of American Art, located at 99 Gansevoort Street (between Washington Street and West Street), Manhattan.

'28+2', a short play by Youlim Nam will be reprised on stage as part of LIC One Act Festival 2018 at the Secret Theatre this summer.

Indie Street Film Festival, Detour Gallery and Two River Theater are proud to announce that they will partner for Red Bank's third annual Community Mural Project, which will take place the weekend of July 13-15.

WILLA OF THE WOOD is amazing. Stunning. Beautiful. It is one of the best books I've read in 2018. I wasn't expecting it. I am so, so enamored.

Advance Gender Equity in the Arts (AGE) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2018 AGE Equity Grants. $15,000 was awarded to Shaking the Tree Theatre, $12,000 to PassinArt: A Theatre Company, $8,000 to Artists Repertory Theatre, and $5,000 to Boom Arts at the 35th Drammy Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018 at Portland Center Stage at The Armory.

Ballet Hispanico, the nation's premier Latino dance organization, brings its bold and eclectic brand of contemporary dance to the Vail Dance Festival for the first time in August 2018.

McDaniel College offers a variety of art, music, theatre, literary, film and other events during the fall of 2018. 

An original devised play, The Tragical Comical Fool's Game (Or, Nun of Your Business) follows Bella (an almost nun) as she grapples with her destiny and a crazy crew of characters all trying to sway her in various directions. Very (very) loosely based on Measure for Measure, The Fool's Game shows on July 10th at 5pm, 11th at 7pm, 18th at 9:15pm, 21st at 6:15pm, and 26th at 5pm. It runs approximately one hour. All performances will be held at the Christ United Methodist Church at 900 4th Street, SW - Orange Venue. Individual tickets go for $17 and can be purchased on the Capital Fringe website. Please note that you will need a Capital Fringe button ($5 through July 6th) to enter the venue!

The 2018 Fresh Fruit Festival 16th Season at The Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street presents All My Love, Kate by Joe Breen performing July 10 @ 8 pm; July 14 @ 8:30 pm; and July 15 @ 3 pm and is a World Premiere.

With summer holiday season in full swing, July and August in Les Jardins Gamelin will present a cornucopia of circus, movies, cabaret and music. There'll be extra fun for kids, with extended hours at La Maison jaune and family mornings with Les Petits bonheurs.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will open the world premiere of Idris Goodwin's The Way the Mountain Moved, directed by May Adrales, on July 14 in the Thomas Theatre. Preview performances are July 10, 12 and 13, and the play runs through Oct. 28, 2018.