This February, innovative Canadian theatre company Why Not Theatre will launch ThisGen 2021 Fellowship, the second annual national initiative that supports BIPOC Female, Trans, and Non-Binary artists get to the next stage in their careers through training, mentorship, guided self-study, and peer-to-peer connection.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival and artEquity announced today the launch of Talking Back, a six-part digital series available both on O! and artEquity.org, hosted by artEquity founder and executive director, Carmen Morgan. Created and produced in collaboration with OSF's director of equity, Sharifa Johka, this breakthrough web series brings artEquity's practice of facilitating hard and necessary conversations to a broader audience.
Perseverance Theatre will present This Wonderful Life by Steve Murray, conceived by Mark Setlock, adapted from the screenplay It's a Wonderful Life by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra, and Jo Swerling. The production is directed by Leslie Ishii and Josh Lowman.
As part of their holiday offerings, Perseverance Theatre will be delighting audiences with an on demand, streaming version of the heartwarming classic, This Wonderful Life, Starring Wesley Mann. You may recognize him as the “I think he stole his wallet!” guy from Back to the Future, but now he plays forty different roles in this charming Christmas production.
Today (November 19) in live streaming: Luba Mason visits Backstage Live, Andrew Barth Feldman guests on Ten Minute Tidbits, and so much more!
Stars in the House continues tonight (8pm) with a spotlight on NEA & CARES Act in Theatre with NEA Chairman, Mary Anne Carter joined by Matt Gutschick (Rose Theater), Jamil Jude (True Colors), Jonelle Procope Apollo Theater), Emika Abe (Woolly Mammoth), Leslie Ishii (Perseverance Theatre), Stephanie Ybarra (Baltimore Center Stage) and Eric Johnson (Honolulu Theatre).
artEquity, in partnership with Yale School of Drama, has announced the launch of its latest leadership program for fieldwide systemic change. The BIPOC Leadership Circle prioritizes, centers, and addresses the needs of BIPOC leaders in cultural arts institutions and comes at this particular time when values-based leadership is needed even more.
Spokane Theater Arts Council will present a continuation of the discussion begun in Part 1 of its Virtual Panel Series, Seeing Ourselves Onstage.
On September 1, Perseverance Theatre announced its lineup for the Fall 2020 Season, and like most of their offerings will be, the announcement was made via live-stream.
Episode two of the ongoing series on Monday, September 14 will feature BIPOC artist activists from across the country prior to CAATAʻs 7th National Asian American Theater Festival & Conference (ConFest): 'Kuʻu ʻĀina, Kuʻu Piko, Kuʻu Kahua - Return to the Source,' May 21-30, 2021.
Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (CAATA) has announced its roster of speakers and performers for the second episode of its ongoing monthly ConFest Virtual Series featuring the work of Asian American and BIPOC artists and theatres from across the country.
Perseverance Theatre is planning a virtual art exhibit to celebrate Black Alaskan creatives through Black Alaskan Art Matters.
Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (CAATA) announces its new, monthly ConFest Virtual Series featuring the work of Asian American artists and theatres from across the country. The virtual series will explore the theme of the upcoming 7th Annual Asian American Theater Festival & Conference (ConFest) 'Kuʻu ʻĀina, Kuʻu Piko, Kuʻu Kahua - Return to the Source' in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi in May 2021, which centers the voices of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander theater practitioners and will feature the thriving theater community of Hawaiʻi, where Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander faces on stage are the norm, not the exception.
Perseverance Theatre Artistic Director, Leslie Ishii, and Associate Conservatory Director at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), Peter J. Kuo, announced on Wednesday, July 29, via live-stream that the first show of the Fall 2020 Season will be In Love and Warcraft by Madhuri Shekar.
Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (CAATA) announces their participation with a national alliance of theater coalitions that advocate for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latino/x, and Middle Eastern & North African) theater-makers to survey both the immediate and projected long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on theaters and theater practitioners of color. The survey also asks what actions BIPOC theater-makers have taken in response to the pandemic. Information gathered in the surveys will be distributed to participants and beyond.
Southwest Shakespeare Company (SSC) invited Grammy Award winning Native artist, Ty DeFOE to direct their imaginative new broadcast of A Midsummer Night's Dream to benefit COVID-19 RELIEF among Arizona and Southern Utah's Native communities most devastated by the C-19 pandemic.
HowlRound is livestreaming the #ArtistResource panel Look for the Helpers: Learnings and Teachings for Building Resilience (ASL & Captioned) on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv.
This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 4/9/2020 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.
This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 4/2/2020 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.
Perseverance Theatre has been working tirelessly to adjust operations and keep its employees working during the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis has reached a point that unfortunately requires the layoff of the majority of its staff.
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