Diversity News

Opera soprano Angela Brown is the first musician to be named a Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding at the University of Georgia.

Licensing rights are now available for Bully No More!, a new musical with a book and lyrics by Elaine Davida Sklar, music by Jon Gailmor and Elaine Davida Sklar, and additional material by Danielle Peveril.

The political, societal, and familial issues that currently dominate our national conversation will be at the heart and center of Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 2023-24 season. See details about the season, and how to purchase tickets!

The National Women’s Theatre Festival is now accepting applications for their 2023 festival which will be presented in-person at the North Carolina State University’s Frank Thompson Hall and virtually all over the world, June 21-July 1, 2023. 

Kids’ Night on Broadway will return to New York City on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Learn about Kids' Night on Broadway, how to get young audiences involved, and more.

The season of Tampere Työväen Teatter's restaurant stage has started off lively. During February, you can feel the atmosphere of 17 performances in the intimate hall of TTT-Klub. The whole includes theatre, music, stand up - according to the viewer's choice.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) partners with Cate Cammarata of CreateTheater to present the 2023 TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series, with the generous support of RK Greene and The StoryLine Project on Sundays, February 12 & 19, 2023 at 3pm.

In order to highlight the mental health issues affecting society and specifically the music community, PROTESTRA will hold “Take a Stand: A Concert for Mental Health” on Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 3:00 PM at the Manhattan School of Music's Ades Performance Space.

Vangeline Theater/ New York Butoh Institute will present a free public showing of The Slowest Wave/Butoh and The Brain, the culmination of an art-science performance-research study, on February 10, 2023 at 6pm at University of Houston, Student Center South Theater.

Firehouse Theatre will be the site for the 2023 installment of Blood From a Turnip puppet salon on Sunday, January 29 at 7:30pm. General admission tickets are $10. The salon is appropriate for ages 12 and older.

Valerie Green/Dance Entropy will present their 25th Anniversary Gala on March 2, 2023 from 6pm-9pm. The event will be a night of live music, performance, food, refreshments and paddle raise in support of Dance Entropy's multitude of performance, educational and outreach programs.

Berkeley Playhouse will continue its 22/23 Season with Fun Home, performing February 24 to April 2, 2023. Fun Home's book and lyrics are by Lisa Kron, with music by Jeanine Tesori, and is based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel. Fun Home is directed by William Thomas Hodgson, assistant directed by Sam Jackson, and music directed by Michael Patrick Wiles.

Jez Butterworth's masterful international Tony Award winning Best Play (2019) “The Ferryman” will run January 27-March 5, 2023 (opening February 4) – in the first United States production after Broadway – and the first in the newly renovated and renamed Conrad Prebys Theatre at the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has announced an exhibition of street photography by students of Pierson High School, Our Town, is on view in the lobby at Bay Street Theater from now through February.

The Los Angeles LGBT Center has announced the four plays that will comprise its first-ever theatre season, celebrating the depth and diversity of LGBTQ+ narratives and bringing them center stage. The line-up spans 88 performances, including world premieres, an award-winning comedy, and a radically reimagined musical-each presented in partnership with local theatre companies.

Vangeline Theater/ New York Butoh Institute announces a free public showing of The Slowest Wave/Butoh and The Brain, the culmination of an art-science performance-research study, on February 10, 2023 at 6pm at University of Houston, Student Center South Theater.

Chef Jose Garces has announced Chef Juan Lopez as the next Chef in Residency at Volvér on Kimmel Cultural Campus. Chef Lopez’s residency will run from January 11, 2023 to February 12, 2023.

Their new single, “Gates of Horn” infuses industrial ambiance juxtaposed against start-stop rhythms that recall classic Ministry, breathing and blasting before merging towards a terrifying, swinging groove. Its accompanying video, directed by Eric Richter takes viewers through a series of recurring nightmares. Plus, check out tour dates!

Multi-award winning director with plays like Barnum and 4000 Miles, Gustavo Barchilon (30) exclusively announces for BroadwayWorld his new works for 2023.

Carclew has announced that the Project and Development grant applications for young emerging artists are now open. This program is designed to support and encourage the growth and development of young talent in the South Australian arts community.