Diversity News

 Louisville Ballet has appointed Leslie B. Smart, CFRE to executive director of the organization, effective April 1.

On Thursday, May 25, '23 at 7pm (rescheduled from March 23, '23), at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, renowned Gambian kora master Malang Jobarteh and acclaimed, NY-native pianist Chelsea Randall will join forces to present Crossings.

Joanna McClelland Glass’ Trying, a huge hit for Palm Beach Dramaworks in 2007, has been added to the company’s 2023-24 schedule, replacing Lynn Nottage’s Crumbs from the Table of Joy as the final play of the season.

Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre has revealed their 55th season featuring the world premiere of Tituss Burgess' The Preacher's Wife. See the full programming, and learn how to purchase tickets!

What did our critic think of BALLET: FLIGHT/BOLERO/ELSA CANASTA at Wroclaw Opera? Flight, Bolero, and Elsa Canasta are full of emotion, big moves, and a diversity that would move you deeply.

Actors’ Equity Association has approved the launch of a political action committee, an independent organization dedicated to advancing the political interests of Equity’s members. 

Acclaimed Tenor Lawrence Brownlee treated his audience, at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, with an afternoon of engaging, sensitive vocal interpretations of some of the world’s most talented African American composers.  This invigorating program, entitled Rising, increased in vocal nuance, and beautifully intonated clarity as it ran the gamut of spiritual, romantic, jazzy, contemplative, and socially conscious original compositions by this illustrious and very talented roster of creative composers.

Kentucky Performing Arts announced that Dr. Tamekka L. Cornelius has been named Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the organization. She will be responsible for developing and implementing a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program that promotes internal and external initiatives for staff and volunteers, programs, community partners, and more.

At its Annual Meeting, President and CEO Fred Dixon debuted the new name and brand identity of the City's official destination marketing organization and convention and visitors bureau for the five boroughs of New York City: New York City Tourism + Conventions.

Hackney Empire Creative Futures alumna, and now West End producer, Jasmyn Fisher-Ryner will join the Board, alongside Josette Bushell-Mingo OBE, award-winning actor and director and current Principal of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Soheb Panja, the founder and editor of Field7, a new media business aimed at people working on climate solutions.  

Beginning this Sunday, April 2, Renaissance Theatre Company debuts the first indoor-outdoor “Renaissance Fair” showcasing shows, shops and shade.  The market continues weekly on Sundays from 11am-4pm at the Ren. 

A musical celebration of the groovy women of the 1960s! BEEHIVE: THE ‘60s MUSICAL is created by Larry Gallagher and directed/choreographed by Ilyse Robbins. Musical direction by J. Kathleen Catellanos and Jim Rice.

Creative Cauldron was awarded an ArtsFairfax Ticket/Transportation Subsidy Grant to further support “Artes Para Todos,” an initiative that provides young people attending Fairfax County Title One schools year-round after school drama and arts workshops.  Creative Cauldron was awarded an Arts Fairfax Project grant earlier this year. 

Downtown Brooklyn Partnership has announced the spring lineup of its annual events series, “Downtown Brooklyn Presents,” which celebrates the people and the places of one of the nation's fastest growing downtowns. The spring launch is only the start of a jam-packed season that will bring Downtown Brooklyn residents and New Yorkers together as a community.

The Slow Wine World Tour 2023 recently had their New York City event at Eataly Downtown. The press and trade gatherings have toured the U.S. in cities that included San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, and Miami.

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced that Emmy, Peabody, NAACP Image and Edward R. Murrow Award winning television journalist and sportscaster Bryant Gumbel will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement at the 44th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards ceremony.

Shakespeare & Company is seeking two young actors to alternate in the role of Raynell: a bright, hopeful, seven-year-old Black girl who appears in the final scene of August Wilson's Fences.

The 2022 Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical, BACK TO THE FUTURE: The Musical will launch a North American Tour in the summer of 2024. See tour stops, and learn how to purchase tickets!

12×12 is a place-based project. We begin by acknowledging that we live and gather on the unceded land of the Dakota People.

Newly formed production company, Joy Productions, led by producer Julie Clare and co-producer Chuchu Nwagu have entered into a five-year partnership with the newly refurbished Grade II listed Broadway in Catford to programme their annual pantomime for the coming five years.