Diversity News

​​​​​​​American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the greatest dance companies in the world, returns to the Auditorium Theatre (Chicago's landmark stage at 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive) with a diverse mixed rep program featuring both classics and contemporary works, for three performances only Friday-Sunday, April 14-16, 2023. 

Axelrod Contemporary Ballet Theater (AXCBT) will present ARCHITECTS OF DANCE, a one-night-only concert featuring four world premieres on April 1 at 8:00 p.m. at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center.

Tickets are now available for Dallas Theater Center's annual fundraising Gala, Renaissance Centerstage, to take place at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre on Saturday, May 13, 2023.

The Oak Park Festival Theatre, Oak Park’s premiere Equity theatre and the oldest professional classical theatre in the Midwest, has announced its summer show, William Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, opening July 15 and running through August 19 at Austin Gardens (167 Forest Ave., Oak Park), with previews July 13 and 14.

McLean Community Players to present The 39 Steps, April 14, 15, and 16 at The Vault in the Capital One Hall.

Legendary Chicago comedy institution The Second City has announced the cast and crew of The Second City Mainstage's 111th Revue.

Legendary Chicago comedy institution The Second City has announced the cast and crew of The Second City Mainstage’s 111th Revue.

RED BULL THEATER has announced the complete cast for the next offering of a new season of OBIE Award-winning Revelation Readings: Kit Marlowe by David Grimm, directed by Emma Rosa Went.

Emmy, Grammy, SAG, and Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis, and Grammy Award winners Melissa Manchester, Billy Stritch and Dionne Warwick will now join The New York Pops, led by Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke, for its 40th Birthday Gala, This One’s For You: The Music of Barry Manilow.

JESUS PIECE’s highly anticipated album …So Unknown drops in just one month. Now, they’ve shared its atmospheric centerpiece “Silver Lining” which was inspired by vocalist, Aaron Heard’s son. It kicks off with a deceptively clean, eerie minor scale riff, followed by another mid-tempo steamroller just before opening back up into calmness.

“Every story needs a teller – that's me – and a listener – that's you.” The Wind God Zephyr says as he welcomes the audience into the fantastical world of Judith Walsh White's new play Cupid & Psyche, premiering this summer at Traveling Players in Tysons Corner Center.

Seattle's French Fest: A Celebration of French-Speaking Cultures, part of the Seattle Center Festál series, celebrates the diversity of traditions, ideas, dialects and more that comprise French-speaking cultures around the world.

Join The Elisabeth Morrow School community at their upcoming Cultural Fair, held on Saturday, March 18, 2023, from 10:00 am-1:00 pm, as they celebrate the diverse cultures that make our community unique!

Earth’s Materials: Perennial Perspectives in the Arts comes to the Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, Vermont. The exhibit runs March 27 – April 15, 2023.

What did our critic think of GLORIA: A LIFE at Theater J?

From the creator of “Superstore” comes a new workplace comedy that takes the wheels off the automobile industry. BroadwayWorld sat down with Ana Gasteyer to discuss what to expect from the upcoming season of American Auto, the differences between Saturday Night Live and Broadway, and what her character, Kat Hastings, would have thought of Wicked.

A 2023 Fresh Fruit Festival Featured Theatre & Fine Art New York Premiere Event: Ricardo Melendez' Angel on Eros asks 'what price are they willing to pay to satisfy their yearnings?'

Arts Center Theatre will present Hollywood Arms written by Carol Burnett and her daughter Carrie Hamilton playing March 15 through April 2. Performances are Wednesday through Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sunday matinees at 3pm.

Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced the company’s 2023/24 Season, which takes audiences on a global tour of opera featuring a richly curated slate of musical events in six different languages.

Mary-Mitchell Campbell takes over as the  Music Director of Encores! this season. While her energies are currently focused on the first show of the new season (Dear World, led by Donna Murphy), she revealed in a recent interview with the New York Times that plans are already underway for future productions of City of Angels and Love Life.