Elizabeth Alexander News

Music Worcester will present 'I RISE: WOMEN IN SONG' at Trinity Lutheran Church on May 8, featuring the Worcester Chorus Women’s Ensemble & Cantilena.

The Gordon Parks Foundation will host its Annual Awards Dinner & Auction of Gordon Parks’s photographs in May, which will honor John Legend, Chance the Rapper, Elizabeth Alexander, and more.

This week, we look at the record-setting viewership of the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and renewed efforts in New York and abroad to redefine cultural priorities. Across Broadway, we probe shifting economic pressures on creatives through a new interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber. Meanwhile, with the announcement of a new arts and culture transition committee by Zohran Mamdani, incoming leadership may reimagine the city’s cultural agenda. On a regional level, we follow the pioneering costume exhibition by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance at Denver International Airport — a celebration of decades of creative work — and internationally, we cover a new report revealing post-pandemic shifts across UK theatres, as well as the opening night of Paddington: The Musical in London’s West End.

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has named an arts and culture transition committee. The committee features 28 members, including Kamilah Forbes, Executive Producer of the Apollo Theatre and more.

​For Bay Area Theatre Week, Theatre Bay Area will present an encore staged reading of Book of Glass, by Michael Lynch. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!

Produced by Rainbow Zebra Productions LLC and The Magic Theatre, this free reading – directed by Andrea Gordon - will take place on Monday, September 22, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. at The Magic Theatre.

Rainbow Zebra Productions LLC and the Magic Theatre will present a staged reading of Book of Glass by Michael Lynch, launching the inaugural “Rainbow Zebra/Magic Theatre Reading Extravaganza,” a new nine-month series of play readings taking place at Magic Theatre in San Francisco.

Belvoir presents Eamon Flack’s gripping adaptation of Australian literary icon Helen Garner’s award-winning novel The Spare Room, starring Aussie screen legend Judy Davis in her first on-stage role in almost 15 years.

A coalition of major arts organizations and philanthropists in Los Angeles announced the creation of the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, an emergency relief fund for artists and arts workers.

New York Live Arts has announced Fall 2024 programming. Learn more about the lineup here!

New York Live Arts has revealed its Fall 2024 programming. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets.

The Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation announced the 2024 recipients of the Disability Futures Fellowship, an initiative administered by United States Artists that is dedicated to platforming and amplifying disabled creative practitioners across various mediums and geographies.

New York Live Arts has announced Fall 2024 programming. All Live Arts Fall 2024 season presentation tickets are on sale now.

Recently, The Trust for the National Mall honored 5-time Tony Award-winning playwright and director George C. Wolfe with the History, Heroes & Hope Award for his dedication to storytelling. See photos from the ceremony!

Join Claudia Rankine, Anna Deavere Smith, Homi Bhabha, Saidiya Hartman, and others for a series of conversations and performances exploring public and private discourse at the Armory's Antagonisms: A Gathering on June 1.

Today, Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Oregon and SITE Sante Fe (SITE) in New Mexico, the commissioning institutions of the U.S. Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, announced that the Mellon Foundation will serve as the presenting sponsor for Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me thanks to a lead gift of $1 million.  

Park Avenue Armory has announced the latest program in its Making Space Public Programming Series, Hidden Conversations, presented in partnership with National Black Theatre (NBT), Sunday, June 18, 2023 from 3pm to 8pm.

Park Avenue Armory's Making Space Public Programming Series and Harlem Stage will co-present Hapo Na Zamani (Black Arts Movement Past and Present), a 1960s-style happening.

Park Avenue Armory's Making Space public programming series will present the second program it its 2023 season, Juke Joint, Friday, March 31st and Saturday, April 1st.

Park Avenue Armory will begin its 2023 Season with Symposium: Sound & Color - The Future of Race in Design, an interdisciplinary forum exploring how race matters in creative design for live performance, especially in the current moment of creative, technological, and cultural unrest.