BOLD Announces 2020 Short-Play Festival
The 10-minute plays are written and directed by Black women.
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Congo Square Theatre Names Charlique C. Rolle Managing Director
The Chicago company has also announced a new online Industry Training Institute.
Profile Theatre Announces ‘On Air’ Season
The company’s two-year exploration of Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins will be presented as audio plays and podcasts.
2020 National Directors Fellowships Announced
Adam M. Kassim, Kholoud Sawaf, Blayze Teicher, and Sharifa Yasmin are this year’s virtual fellows.
Baltimore Center Stage Announces Anti-Racist Artistic Practices
In response to demands for change, the company will pay playwrights during rehearsal, eliminate punishing ’10 out of 12′ tech weeks, and strive for greater pay equity.
ACT Announces Live and Virtual Programming Through 2022
The San Francisco company will produce a radio version of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ a film of a Heather Christian musical, plus five in-person productions.
Bess Wohl Receives Inaugural Georgia Engel Comedy Playwriting Award
In a virtual ceremony hosted by the Dramatists Guild Foundation and the Lillys, Wohl was among a number of awards recipients.
Study Shows Decline in Contributed Gifts to Arts Organizations
New data from TRG Arts and Purple Seven reveal that philanthropic giving in 2020 is down by 2 percent in North America.
William Carden to Step Down From Ensemble Studio Theatre Helm
Carden, who joined the company in 1978 and has served as AD since 2007, steps aside to make room for the predominantly white company to make substantive changes.
Describing How Art Feels and Checking Bias: My Week at Virtual Critics Camp
If the work of criticism is engaging empathetically with the world, the work is never done, as this year’s Zoom-only National Critics Institute affirmed.
