“4. Walk through the entire program through the lens of those you are inviting into your theatre or organization. What would you see? What would you experience? What does it feel like to be as a person of color and walk into your institution? An easy way to feel tokenized is when you are the only one at an institution.”
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Manhattan Theatre Club Attacked For Lack Of Diversity
The season, announced piecemeal since December, includes Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love,” David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Ripcord,” Richard Greenberg’s “Our Mother’s Brief Affair,” John Patrick Shanley’s “Prodigal Son,” Nick Payne’s “Incognito,” Nick Jones’s “Important Hats of the Twentieth Century” and Florian Zeller’s “The Father.” But anger about the choices didn’t bubble up until this week, after American Theatre magazine noted the roster in a straightforward post on its website.
Bill Rauch: What It Takes To Be A Leader In The Theatre
“I think leadership is lonely and leadership is frightening, and just the nature of the nonprofit structure is hard, so there is going to be a lot of struggle. And I think that does make it difficult for leaders to be open and be generous. But I do think all art is rooted in love and if you’re not leading from a place of love and generosity than you’re not actually modeling in your process, and what we all need to model in the art.”
How ‘Hamilton’ Recasts Thomas Jefferson As A Villain
Which a show with Alexander Hamilton as its hero would do, of course. “If Hamilton is the 99 percent, Jefferson is, in the show at least, the one percent. If Hamilton is Barack Obama (who told Jon Stewart he thought the show was ‘phenomenal’), Jefferson is Mitt Romney.”
Cirque Du Soleil Plans $25 Million Broadway Show
“The company, which has been acquired by a group of private equity investors, said that the production, to be called Paramour, represented one step in a broader effort to expand its presence in New York and in the world of theater. … [They also] said it would run indefinitely after opening next spring.”
Former National Theatre Bosses Nicholas Hytner And Nick Starr To Open London’s First New Theatre In 20 Years
“While there are 17 other theatres of comparable size (800-1,099 seats) in greater London, with 15 of those in inner London, the new building would be the first large-scale theatre in the heart of the capital since the erection of Shakespeare’s Globe in 1997, and the first large-scale commercial playhouse to be built since the New London was created in Drury Lane in 1973.”
America’s Theatres Are Looking At Leadership Changes
“Leadership turnover is coming to America’s regional theaters. When Theater Communications Group — a service organization for the country’s nonprofit theaters — recently surveyed its members, 30 percent of the respondents indicated that their artistic leaders had been in place for two decades or more. About the same number said they anticipated a change in artistic leadership within the next five years.”
Two Drunken Audience Members Come Backstage During Show, Asking For Ladies’ Room
And one of them walked onstage to get there. Said one cast member, “As soon as I got back offstage, I asked my crew member, ‘Did that really happen? Did someone really come back here and ask me where the bathroom was?'”
An All-White Cast For Shakespeare? What Is Trevor Nunn Thinking?
“Perhaps an all-white cast will one day seem as absurd as Donald Sinden blacking up to play Othello in 1979, but fidelity to 16th-century staging has long served as an excuse for a lack of diversity in theatre.”
Actors Union Condemns Major Production Of Shakespeare In London For Its All-White Cast
“To present this benchmark of British heritage in a way that effectively locks minorities out of the cultural picture [literally] flies in the face of the huge conversation taking place in British media at present, of the very real progress made in recent years to increase diversity in our industry.”