Diversity News

On Saturday, June 10 at 4 p.m. CT, Chicago’s Collaboraction Theatre Company will go “on the air” with the premiere episode of Collaboraction Radio on WCPT 820 AM, Chicago’s Progressive Talk. 

CThe production, directed by Federico Mallet, will be presented at The Kraine Theater July 21-30 with performances on Friday, July 21 at 7pm, Saturday, July, 22 at 7pm, Sunday, July 23 at 3pm, Friday, July 28 at 7pm, Saturday, July 29 at 7pm, and Sunday, July 30 at 3pm.

Red Bull Theater has announced the eight world premieres selected for the company’s 13th annual Short New Play Festival.

While the writers continue to strike, and the actors have until this evening to vote on a strike authorization, at least one of the major Hollywood unions appears poised to avoid a strike - the Directors Guild, who shared many of the same concerns as the WGA membership, have secured an agreement with the producers pending a vote of its membership.

Presenters for the 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards have been announced! Learn more about who will be giving out awards on the big night!

PlayFight, an unflinching look at the adultification of young Black males, will transfer to the West End’s Seven Dials Playhouse from The Pleasance this summer. This poignant and vital production explores how racism within education systems and wider communities has a dangerous effect on young Black people’s lives, sometimes resulting in pushing them towards crime.

BroadwayWorld UK caught up with Dan Partridge about his own return as Danny Zuko. We discussed what it's been like to have been a part of the show for over four years, how this production is different than the classic movie, and how being half deaf has affected his performance.

Lite 100.5 WRCH announced their 25th Annual 'NITE OF LITE LAUGHTER' will feature 'As Long As You're Asking: A Conversation with JASON ALEXANDER', an evening of comedy, music and conversation with the award-winning star of stage and screen.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre has announced the world premiere season of Tae Tae in the Land of Yaaas! as part of the Brisbane Festival in the Cremorne Theatre from 25 August 2023.

Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood is presenting the world premiere of Behind the Six by Dan Perry. Directed by April Littlejohn, the cast will feature Antwan Alexander II, Lemon Baardsen, Lara Blanco, Nathan Bock, Cassandra Carmona, Abram Connor, Travyz Santos Gatz, John Goodwin, Robert Jolly, Xavier LeFlore, Sean Alan Mazur, Alejandro Mungaray, Mitch Rosander, Matthew Scheel, and Kyle Wallen. Check out photos here!

In 2022, Starlight Theatre and the City of Kansas City, Missouri, One Percent for Art Program worked with Cambridge, Massachusetts, artist Douglas Kornfeld to place a new work of public art on the Starlight Theatre grounds.

The Curiosity Cabinet in partnership with Fresh Squeezed Opera will premiere a jazz opera Fizz & Ginger. This production reunites composer/conductor Whitney George and librettist/stage director Bea Goodwin after their critically acclaimed opera Princess Maleine and radio drama tryptic In the Throes of Death.

Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles will present Banda Las Angelinas and Los Rock Angels on June 25, 2023.

Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles & Latin Alt Hd3 will present Ramona, Mexican Dubwiser and El Bad Buky on June 16, 2023 from 7-10pm.

Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles & Dublab will present Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and DJ Mark Maxwell on June 17, 2023 from 7-10pm.

Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles & Utopia Tribe will present KG Superstar, DJ Ade and Katalyst Collective on June 18, 2023 from 5-8pm.

Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles & Animo Production will present Julian Torres, Marco Antonio Godoy and Trio Casablanca on June 23, 2023.

By removing the barriers created by selection committees and censorship, the Fringe Festival is able to be radically inclusive—to reflect the demographic makeup of the area in all of its diversity. The Harrisburg Fringe Festival seeks to bring people together in the spirit of creative adventure.

Chocolate Ballerina Company, a service organization which supports the hidden talents in youth and adult artists of color in the Philadelphia region, is making history this June, presenting the first ever all Black and Brown production of the classic ballet Swan Lake. See photos from the production!

The Ritz Theatre Company gets set to go big in the months ahead, officially announcing a bold, new season beginning in September that reinforces the organization's ongoing commitment to 'embracing diversity in our stories and those who share them.'