“Our art was to bring everything in, to include everything until we finally admitted that the world was our work.” -Charles Ludlam, from Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly, as qu…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:09AM“Fabulousness can come in many forms, and Taylor Mac seems intent on assuming each and every one of them.”- New York Times We are thrilled to announce that Taylor Mac will be joining the…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:42AMFrom April 12-15 of this year, TCG will facilitate a delegation to the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá. Staff of TCG Member Theatres who are interested in presenting or develo…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:44AM(Photo: Tim Stanford, Playwrights Horizons; Heather Randall, New York Theatre Workshop; Senator Booker; Teresa Eyring, TCG; Marshall Jones, Crossroads Theatre Company; and Alissa Moore, …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:58AM“Do we want more diversity in the very small amount of available jobs? Or do we want to talk about radically democratizing the field…? -Michael John Garcés, quoted in Seema Sueko’s …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:21AM“But I realized I couldn’t do anything without the support of the insurance people. Many were helpful but I couldn’t get anywhere with Aetna and its head Olcott Smith. So I…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:38PM(Photo by Sean Harris of Maverick Sean Photography. Pictured: Teresa Eyring at the 2013 TCG Fall Forum on Governance: Investing in Vitality) We’ve covered a lot of ground in our three d…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:26PMLeadership, and the lack thereof, has been much on our cultural radar as our country finally voted to end our perilous government shutdown (Laurie Baskin has more here). We’ve been thinkin…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:06PMOn October 3, TCG held our first ever Diversity & Inclusion Institute webinar. We were all deeply inspired by the concrete steps our participating theatres had already taken: developing …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:14AM“I do really celebrate New York. I love what it has meant to this little theatre company. I don’t think we could have done what we’ve done anywhere but here.” -Ruth Maleczech…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:43PMThe critical importance of data is fresh in the news with the release of the NEA’s 2012 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. You may have noticed in particular these dismaying findi…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:10PMOur six-point Diversity & Inclusion Initiative took a big step forward this week with the launch of our Leading the Charge Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship. This two-year Fellowship …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 06:00PMAs I walked into the lobby of TCG’s office building last week, I was greeted by the wonderful surprise of a three-piece jazz band playing. This pop-up event was part of The September Conce…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:44AMThe theatre field is currently celebrating more major birthdays than a TGI Fridays on the weekend. TCG celebrated our own 50th two years back, and many major theatres founded in the 1960s ar…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:40AMWhere can you go from staying “over there” past a “burn” to see “R&G” “up the hill”? That lingo belongs to the American Players Theatre of Wisconsin, where I’m currentl…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:36AMIn my July/August column of American Theatre, I imagined a to-do list for our theatre field with a couple of long-standing challenges that we may never fully check-off. One more topic to a…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:59AMLast week we launched Round 3 Cycle A of Global Connections (GC), and I encourage you to look over the guidelines and apply. Read about past recipients’ projects to learn the many differen…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:04PMThis week, I’d like to focus your attention on important developments on Capitol Hill affecting the arts. We need your help, and I hope you’ll take action and spread the word. La…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:57PMLast week, the news of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the trial for killing Trayvon Martin resulted in widespread shock and confusion about how our system could fail to deliver justic…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:30PMToday, as we sat in our weekly TCG leadership team meeting, Managing Director Kevin E. Moore announced that history was in the making. His phone had just buzzed with news of the Supreme Cour…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:55PMWe ended last week with the celebration of the summer solstice, which serves as both the gateway to summer’s growing season and the launch of daylight’s march toward fall. It reminds u…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:28AM“I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I’m taking away something from them [designers]. I’m taking away their creativity and their ability to have in…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:07PMLast week, I was powerfully reminded of theatre’s ability to heal. We gathered at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, D.C. for a press event celebrating …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:38AM“As we experience the enormous pain and loss that is felt by so many victims of violence in our city’s neighborhoods and around our world every day, we renew our commitment to cr…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:12PM“’Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little hap…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:06PMTCG’s vision statement and strategic realignment point us towards harnessing the power of partnerships, and so I am particularly pleased to share that I have joined the board of The Actors…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:27AMA few years ago, my friend Gordon Davidson (founder of the Mark Taper Forum, former artistic director of Center Theatre Group and an original champion of the regional theatre movement) told …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:32PMLast week concluded TCG’s Cuba Exploratorium trip, which brought nearly 20 TCG Member Theatre staffers and artists to Cuba as pasrt of our World Theatre Day programming. Arts offici…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:57PM“And I love Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories, man. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet…You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, a…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 07:46PMLast week, we returned from our Audience (R)Evolution Learning Convening in Philadelphia, and our minds and hearts are still revving from all the ideas, connections and (not one but two) ban…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:30AMLast week, TCG held our winter board meeting here in New York City. We were joined by the National Council for the American Theatre, our advisory council of theatre trustees. While the board…
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