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.
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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.
Though no dates are set, the D.C. company’s season is planning to end with the pre-Broadway run of ‘A Strange Loop.’
The season will feature six productions and the launch of a new streaming platform.
Six students will receive $2,000 to support studies in the performing arts and arts management.
Nicholas will replace interim executive and artistic director Thom Seymour Jr.
American Shakespeare Center and Berkshire Theatre Group will soon open full-scale productions, but only one has Actors’ Equity’s approval.
The season will open in January of 2021 will ‘Celia and Fidel,’ which was cut short this spring.
The series of 10-minute plays by women and non-binary writers explores the passage of the amendment and its impact 100 years later.
Theatres in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina focus on how they can best serve their communities when they can’t do it from their stages.
Studies, including one from Shugoll Research on D.C.-area theatregoers, see a decline from already low numbers, with the comfort zone stretching to spring 2021.