Industry Theatre Newsroom Page 56

In partnership with Broadway Stage Managers, Narda E. Alcorn, Lisa Dawn Cave, Beverly Jenkins, Kenneth J. McGee, & Cody Renard Richard, the Broadway Stage Management Symposium awards five scholarships for stage managers of color to attend the annual professional development and networking conference for stage managers, the Broadway Stage Management Symposium. 

Fresh off a 2-week return as Glinda in Broadway's hit musical Wicked, Amanda Jane Cooper will lead a cast of rising stars in the upcoming presentation of TRUE NORTH: A MAGICAL NEW HOLIDAY MUSICAL at the Institute of American Musical Theatre in NYC. The invite-only performances are set for March 14, 2022.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents the next in their TRU Beginnings series of workshops for the early development of new work: How to Write a Musical that Works, Part Three: Reckoning and Resolution on Sunday, February 27, 2022, noon to 7pm ET, on Zoom.

Gary McAvay, former President of Columbia Artists Theatricals has passed away at age 68. 

Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for theatre, has announced they have been approved to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic.

Across the industry last week, two trends have begun to emerge more fully: the first being we continue to have more data on just how bleak things were for the industry over the past two years. The second is that more companies are ready to emerge from that darkness stronger than ever - with new spaces ready to open and new seasons being announced.

Today, Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) launched two funding opportunities aimed at providing transformational support for individual artists across New York State. The $125 million initiative provides either guaranteed income or employment opportunities to artists.

Lively McCabe Entertainment has announced that it has acquired Broadway Theater Workshops (BTW). 

The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional annual investment in individual talent. The grant is awarded to musical theatre composers, lyricists, and librettists, or writing teams, early in their career, to support artistic endeavors and safeguard long-term music writing careers.

Pillsbury House Theatre is proud to announce the 2022 recipients of the McKnight Fellowships for Community-Engaged Artists: Douglas R. Ewart and Olivia Levins Holden.

New Dramatists, an artistic home and developmental laboratory for professional playwrights, has announced the addition of new Board member, Laura Politi.

American Lyric Theater (ALT) today announced the Aria Access Project (AAP), a free hub of downloadable contemporary aria sheet music written by alumni of ALT’s Composer Librettist Development Program.

New Perspectives Theatre Company (NPTC) has announced the March 4, 2022 launch of ON HER SHOULDERS: Celebrating 1,000 Years of Women Writing Plays, the first-of-its-kind database of women from the around the world who have used the dramatic form of expression for the whole, or for part, of their literary careers.

Actors’ Equity Association has announced that a team of doctors led by Dr. Mark Cunningham-Hill are the new public health consultants for the union, effective immediately. This team also advises the American Guild of Music Artists and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society on COVID-19 safety. 

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) have announced the creation of the Judith Champion Playwriting Fellowship, which will be awarded by MTC annually. 

While the data from the early winter show that Broadway’s reopening didn’t go as planned, and the January closing announcements were an emotional blow after the Omicron surge, the slate of opening dates announced on Broadway for early to mid-April, have many in the industry starting to feel optimistic that this time a corner has truly been turned.

There's one week left until the virtual streaming premiere of REFLEX, the new show from visual and sound artist and juggler Jay Gilligan. Beginning February 14, all thirteen performances of REFLEX through February 19 will offer digital livestream tickets for $20.

JoAnna Garcia Swisher is the guest on today's special episode of The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul. Swisher discusses making Netflix's Sweet Magnolias season 2, acts of kindness that changed the course of her career and much more in this empowering conversation.

Tonight, HOLA starts a new cycle of their HOLA Spotlight, in which the organization will be talking with artists and personalities who, in one way or another, actively participate to represent their community. They invite all to join them as they celebrate actor and filmmaker Loren Escandon, who will share about how, through her characters and productions, she has been able to represent Afro-Latin women and exploit their realities as a result of her context, socioeconomic status, and cultural background. 

Through improvisation and good old-fashioned fun, TADA! school break camps are the perfect blend of musical theater training, storytelling, and fun theater games to keep young minds engaged, active, and having a blast over their break!

The Artist Rights Alliance (ARA), an artist-run, non-profit organization fighting for songwriters and musicians in the modern music economy, announced that former longtime Viacom vice president Stacey Dansky has been named Executive Director.

The NYC Musicians' Union Local 802 has announced its endorsement of Senator Chuck Schumer in his bid for re-election.

The Shubert Organization announced today it has acquired the GalaPro App, the software that allows for real-time translations and captioning in theaters. After incubating GalaPro in 2016, The Shubert Organization implemented an organization wide rollout of the software in all of its theatres.

Co-founders T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, and Reginald “Reggie” Van Lee, along with Executive Director Olivia Jones and Program Director Lico Whitfield, announced today the members of their inaugural cohort of Fellows in conjunction with partners of current Broadway Productions.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary season in 2022, Inside Broadway announces the return of its professional touring production this year – the first time since COVID-19, bringing classic Broadway musicals directly into New York City school's auditorium to give the students, teachers, and staff a fun, educational, and safe live theatre experience.