‘I Want To Be Part of That’: The Urgent Work of Diversifying White Theatre Staffs
Most theatres recognize that all-white seasons and casts are wrong. So why are administration, management, and staff still so homogeneous?
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When the Students Have Notes for the Teachers
Theatre students and alumni join the anti-racist groundswell in the U.S. theatre to pen statements speaking up about their experiences and demanding change.
Not a Moment but a Movement: Toward an Anti-Racist American Theatre
The collective that started by saying ‘We See You, White American Theater’ makes its own demands to be seen, and fully included, at last.
Great Lakes: Business as Unusual, and Some Urgent Questions
Midwestern orgs are hunkering down but not defeated in their plans to stay relevant as they restructure.
Mid-Atlantic: Adaptation and Engagement
At theatres in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, flexibility is the watchword.
Artists of the World, Unite!
As we face another Depression, can we dream of a new Federal Theatre Project? Any such hope begins with political organizing onstage and off.
New England: Inward and Outward
Theatres in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Connecticut are variously going local and virtual, and reflecting deeply on their role in a changed future.
Plains: ‘Too Stubborn to Go Away’
Theatres in Nebraska, Minnesota, and Missouri work to adapt to the new reality and plan for the next chapter.
Rocky Mountain: Short-Term Vs. Long-Term Thinking
Theatres in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho keep the theatre faith, and many or most employees, in hopes of a full return.
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.