Diversity News

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Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced the line-up for its nineteenth Winter Words Festival, featuring an exciting line up of well-known, and well-loved authors, playwrights, poets, adventurers, broadcasters, and TV personalities from around Scotland and further afield for a celebration of all things artistic and literary.

Two of the hottest comedians on the Australian circuit will be performing full, massive seasons at Perth's 2023 FRINGE WORLD Festival.

The Exponential Festival and The Brick will present The Ben Shapiro Project by Ella Lee Davidson, January 16 - 21 at 8 pm at the Brick Theater in Brooklyn.

The Creating Change Network, a program hosted by New Jersey Theatre Alliance and ArtPride New Jersey that aims to build a more equitable, just, accessible and anti-racist arts community in New Jersey, has curated a line-up of 11 public arts events in celebration of the National Day of Racial Healing, which takes place January 17, 2023.

Vangeline Theater/ New York Butoh Institute will present a public showing of The Slowest Wave, the culmination of Founder and Artistic Director Vangeline's 2022/23 Gibney Dance in Process (DiP) Residency.

Diversionary Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for its production of The High Table, by Temi Wilkey, directed by Niyi Coker Jr.  The High Table will run February 9 – March 5 (press opening on February 18) at Diversionary Theatre in University Heights. 

Ameena Hamid and Grace Dickson have teamed up to create HD General Management, a new company dedicated to delivering better wellbeing, access, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and Human Resource services in the arts.

​​​​​​​Seattle Center Festál kicks off the 2023 festival series with the 27th Tết in Seattle – Vietnamese Lunar New Year on Jan. 14 and 15, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Seattle Center Armory Food & Event Hall and Fisher Pavilion. The festival is free, family-friendly, and open to the public.

Chance Theater will present the California Premiere of “Ride the Cyclone.” This musical will preview from January 27 through February 3, and regular performances will begin February 4th and continue through February 26.

The Creating Change Network and ArtPride New Jersey has curated a line-up of 11 public arts events in celebration of the National Day of Racial Healing, which takes place January 17, 2023.

The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich has announced the full cast and creative team for their upcoming new production of Dennis Kelly’s acclaimed play DNA, which will run at the venue from 2-9 February 2023.

Shankar Jalota has released his new children's book, The Adventures of The Vitiligo Man.

Grammy and Tony Award Winner Heather Headley will perform with The New York Pops, in an all-new program on Friday, February 10, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. at Carnegie Hall as part of The New York Pops’ 40th anniversary season.

ASM Global successfully completed its first worldwide 'Global Month of Giving' initiative by raising $750,000 highlighted by programs anchored by international volunteer team members engaging in local community initiatives demonstrating the company's commitment to the people and places where it operates.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth has announced that its production, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, by Bette Bao Lord, adapted for the stage by Mark Branner, returns to Tenney Theater for two weekends. The show is currently on a 20+ city U.S. tour that continues through the spring. 

Trinity Repertory Company has announced the four Rhode Island residents who will be honored at its 24th Pell Awards Gala on Monday, June 5, 2023 at WaterFire Arts Center.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation announced that the 2022 Joe A. Callaway Awards will be awarded to Saheem Ali for excellence in directing for Fat Ham (The Public Theater) and Josh Prince for excellence in choreography for Trevor: the Musical (Stage 42).

BOYS IN BLUE and its first episode’s early, unrestricted release continues the company’s mission to create a more equitable and accessible media industry through inclusive storytelling. The complex relationship between the young, predominately Black high school athletes and their police officer football coaches and mentors. Watch the video now!

The Fountain Theatre and Grand Performances will present two free performances of the Fountain’s critically acclaimed, award-winning stage adaptation of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric.