Diversity News

Ballet Hispánico will host an NYC Arts in Education Roundtable with Paul Thompson, Executive Director of the NYC DOE's Office of Arts and Special Projects, on December 5, 2022 at 10 a.m.

Redtwist Theatre has named Dusty Brown as its new artistic director, Eileen Dixon as its community director and Michael Dias as development director, effective immediately. Redtwist Theater.

The Consul General of the Republic of Indonesia in New York, Mr. Winanto Adi, hosted the official announcement that Asa Pentas Mahakarya Academy will be presenting Camp Broadway® in their new home in Jakarta, Indonesia, beginning in 2023.

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL), the UK's charity for the advancement of literature, has announced the authors honoured in the second year of the RSL International Writers programme. This annual, life-long award recognises the contribution of writers across the globe to literature in English.

​​​​​​​Vainieri Huttle was recently elected chair of its board of trustees—the first woman to take that top leadership role at Bergen Performing Arts Center known at bergenPAC.

The Visual Arts Center in the Washington Pavilion has partnered with Art Collective Sioux Falls to host one of the largest gatherings of local artists in the Sioux Falls area.

This season, Matt and his team of experts — Jaime Ebanks, Avi Hopkins and Mike Kelleher — cross the country and meet with families whose unique stories reveal the rich diversity of the American experience. From a coalmining family in Pennsylvania to an Atlanta rabbi, from the daughter of a Japanese American space engineer.

CHELSEA TABLE + STAGE – New York’s newest hotspot for intimate dining and extraordinary music – will present the solo concert debut of Andrea Macasaet, one of the original Broadway stars of SIX the Musical, on Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 7:00 PM.

Creative Cauldron was awarded an FY2003 ArtsFairfax Project Support Grant to support “Artes Para Todos,” an initiative that provides young people attending Fairfax County Title One schools year-round after school drama and arts workshops. 

The Whale Theater, in association with Tectonic Theater Project (Moisés Kaufman, Artistic Director; Matt Joslyn, Executive Director) will present Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory at Hudson New York's Park Theater (723 Warren Street) Thursday, December 1 - Sunday, December 18, 2022.

Renaissance Theaterworks (RTW), “theater by women, for everyone,” welcomes back Sarah Kriger Hwang as the company's Marketing Director. 

The holiday season brings with it many familiar sights, sounds, smells, and of course, beloved cinematic and stage treasures like IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Beef & Boards chose a true gem to get every audience member into the right spirit while always recalling what’s truly important and truly worth fighting for: each other.

The American Dance Guild will return to live performance with their yearly ADG PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, their first live production since the Covid pandemic. Return, Renew, Rejoice! will take place over four evenings, Dec 1 - Dec 4 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street, in New York City. The work of 33 contemporary choreographers will be shown.

The Kimmel Cultural Campus, in partnership with The Shubert Organization, will present the Philadelphia premiere of Roundabout Theatre Company's 2020 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of a Play, A Soldier's Play.

Pioneer Theatre Company, Utah’s premiere professional theatre, will present A Christmas Story, The Musical—the Tony-nominated musical adaptation based on the 1983 film. The 2012 work was adapted for the stage by Joseph Robinette, with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

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, will faciliate participation by the state’s arts community in the National Day of Racial Healing, on January 17, 2023.

Grammy-winning and best-selling female recording artist of all time Mariah Carey has signed on as a co-producer of the new musical comedy SOME LIKE IT HOT, now playing at the Shubert Theatre.

Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of some of the world’s most famous musicals, and Michael Harrison, critically-acclaimed, award-winning international producer, announced the creation of a new musical theatre partnership to find and develop new musicals, and create new productions from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s momentous musical catalogue. 

The funding means everything to us, especially with the setbacks we have had along the way. We have always believed in what we do and the young people, artists, and audiences we co-create with, represent and whose stories we tell. At last, we can plan with confidence knowing that our programme can happen because the funding is secured.

BBC Earth Experience is a ground-breaking new attraction offering visitors the chance to experience the extraordinary diversity of our seven unique continents, on the most epic scale featuring bespoke narration from David Attenborough.