Duke Partners With Ford to Fund Performing Arts Tech Innovation
The Doris Duke Foundation has announced new grants to support technological infrastructure in the performing arts.
All Stories About Ford Foundation
What Happened to the U.S. Nonprofit Theatre Movement?
An excerpt from a new book ponders an industry that seems to have lost its way, even as it has grown—and what its future may hold.
The Fall and Rise of Private Funding for Theatre
By many measures, foundation giving to performing arts organizations is in decline—except in all the places it’s not.
Imagining Brighter Futures
With support from the Ford Foundation, Theatre Futures invites thought leaders in the arts and beyond to reflect on our next chapter.
Disability Futures Fellows Announces 2022 Cohort
Among the 20 members of this year’s class of artists and leaders are 8 with links to theatre and/or public performance.
Mellon Announces Grants to Support NY Artists
The Creatives Rebuild initiative provides either guaranteed income or employment funding for artists and arts institutions across New York State.
Disability Futures Unveils Virtual Festival, New Funding
Ford, Mellon, and United States Artists present a free festival featuring 2 days of art and ideas from disabled artists, writers, performers, and designers.
Ford, Mellon Award $1 Million to Disability Futures Fellowships
20 artists, performers, writers, and creators from around the country will receive $50,000 each.
Ford Foundation Awards 25 Art of Change Fellowships
The recipients were recognized for their work in social justice; winners include Mikhail Baryshnikov, P. Carl, and Ping Chong.
Going National: How America’s Regional Theatre Movement Changed the Game
The American theatre as we know it didn’t just evolve organically, inevitably; it was conjured by visionaries who dreamt of a national theatre outside New York, then built it.
