Van Lier Fellows, NY Drama Critics Circle, Herb Alpert Awards, and More
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
All Stories About True Colors Theatre Company
Theatre Communications Group Announces THRIVE! Grants
Thirty theatres of color will receive $10,000 grants for general operating support.
Sakura Rosenthal Wins Next Narrative Monologue Competition
The Boston high schooler took first place and a $3,000 scholarship, with Atlanta’s Eryn Regans in second and Greensboro, N.C.’s Laylah Cooper-Hallman third.
If You Rebuild It, Will They Return?
3 years after shutdown, despite some encouraging signs, most U.S. theatres are struggling to get audiences to commit.
The Canon, Reloaded: 3 Playwrights Respond to 20th-Century Classics
In riffing on works by Arthur Miller and Lorraine Hansberry, 3 new plays by Kimberly Belflower, Kelundra Smith, and Eleanor Burgess alternately explore and explode what was missing from the originals.
After Years of Talk, Finally Some Money for Black Artists and Theatres
Efforts like the Black Seed, the Drinking Gourd, Next Wave initiative, and the Sprinkle-Hamlin award are directing funding to develop work by Black artists.
The Drinking Gourd to Fill Up With New Plays by Black Authors
True Colors and the Hansberry Project have created a new commissioning program to address the dearth of Black work on American stages.
South Atlantic: Resetting Expectations
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.
Mean and Green, With a Splash (or More) of Ankara Print
3 costume designers indulge their ’80s nostalgia to varying degrees in 3 separate productions of Jocelyn Bioh’s ‘School Girls.’
‘Find Joy in the Destruction of the Lie’
The complete text of speeches by Jamil Jude, Monique Holt, and Nikkole Salter that opened last week’s TCG 2020 virtual conference.
