Diversity News

Denver Arts & Venues is now accepting qualifications for three new Denver Public Art projects for the Denver Central 70 Cover Park.

Resonance Works' tenth anniversary season continues with an inspiring program this December, including holiday classics and a world premiere. Amahl and the Night Visitors returns after a two-year hiatus, and Resonance Works will present Margaret Bonds' The Ballad of the Brown King for the first time.

The UIS Performing Arts Center is now accepting applications for the 2023 Our Stage / Our Voices Artist-in-Residence.

Rubicon Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder Karyl Lynn Burns retired from the company on Sunday, November 13, following the acclaimed sold-out run of In the Heights.

After the tragic loss of the Doris Duke Theatre to a fire in November 2020, Jacob’s Pillow has announced that the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has awarded a $10 million grant —the largest received in Jacob’s Pillow’s 90-year history—toward the building of a new, reimagined Doris Duke Theatre, slated to open in 2025.

Other than a handful of playwrights 30 and under, all the playwrights spoken to for this piece believe their sex has impacted their careers in the theater. Women feel that they have trouble getting in the room and being taken seriously once there. But there is something more, a sense that when things get really bad -- beyond mansplaining bad -- there aren't many people to turn to in the theater.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 11/17/2022 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

On Monday November 7, Quintessence Theatre, Philadelphia's professional classic repertory theatre, was the recipient of the only award given out at Theatre Philadelphia’s annual industry celebration.

​​​​​​​Equity, the cast of Oldham Coliseum's pantomime Robin Hood and local MP Debbie Abrahams have today (Wednesday) met onstage at the theatre, as they called for Arts Council England to 'Save Oldham Coliseum.'

Equity starts with arts and culture workers being able to support themselves and their families. Passion is not a substitute for livable wages. But it is a common tale told by nonprofit employers, and employees too, as they try to make ends meet doing what they love.

The French Institute Alliance Française announces the opening of the FIAF Preschool: Montclair for fall 2023.

Hitz Foundation, a private non-operating family foundation supporting numerous projects in science, the arts, and the environment throughout the world, has awarded the Oregon Shakespeare Festival a $10 million unrestricted grant, to be paid over the next five years.

The new musical film BEAU will make its world premiere as the opening night feature of Dances With Films New York at the Regal Union Square from December 1-4, 2022. The defiantly independent film festival and Los Angeles favorite, celebrates 26 years by expanding to New York City in 2022.

Renaissance Theatre Company presents the return of a new holiday tradition: “The Office Party Musical Extravaganza Show' playing December 1-23, 2022 at the Ren in Orlando. 

McCarter Theatre Center has announced the return of the beloved holiday tradition, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.  Returning to the McCarter stage for the first time since 2019, the spectacular classic production is adapted and directed by Lauren Keating.

Merry Measures, the annual cabaret holiday fundraiser series hosted by Chicago Cabaret Professionals, will be held on Monday, December 5th and Tuesday December 6th at Davenport's Piano Bar and Cabaret in Chicago. This year, 28 cabaret artists will take the stage, showcasing the diversity and unique talents within the local cabaret community.

​​​​​​​Coppell Arts Center invites audiences to celebrate the holiday season and enjoy an enchanted evening of entertainment with A Merry Cirque: A Family Holiday Spectacular! Back by popular demand, this festive variety show features seasonal music, slapstick comedy, and new legendary circus acts that the whole family will love. 

Studio For Performing Arts LA presented a diversity scholarship production of 'Check Please: Take 2,' written by Jonathan Rand and directed by Walid Chaya, at the Zephyr Theatre in West Hollywood on Saturday, November 5th, to a sold out audience. See photos from the production.

The Kennedy Center’s Social Impact program announced partnerships and programming for the 2022–2023 season, including Community Partnerships, Culture Caucus, the Conflux, Social Practice Residents, and Millennium Stage.

ArtsBridge Foundation has announced the statewide list of high schools that will participate in the 15th Annual Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards for the 2022-23 school year.