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Celebrated Producer Marie Cisco has launched Cisco & Co. Productions, LLC, a full-service production house that specializes in live theatrical events and filmed content with a focus on uplifting stories of Black and African culture in addition to its intersection with feminism.

Like many of you, I spent a lot of time over the past week reading remembrance articles about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Without venturing into the political, I was deeply struck by how important the arts - particularly the performing arts - were to her throughout her life and time on the Supreme Court.

Page By Page, the popular monthly subscription service for theater artists designed to provide a sense of community, both online and off, announced that its Founder Jacqueline Goldfinger will pass leadership of the organization to award-winning playwright and producer Rachel Lynett on November 1, 2020, the second birthday of Page By Page.

The International Committee of The League of Professional Theatre Women (Mary Hodges and Shellen Lubin, Co-Presidents), an organization which has been championing women in the professional theatre for over three decades, will present a virtual presentation of the 2020 Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award on Tuesday, February 16, 2021.

As theaters across the country remain shuttered for more than six months as a result of COVID-19, The Laurents / Hatcher Foundation announced today a second round of grants to twenty-five theaters to assist in sustaining operations.

The Al Hirschfeld Foundation (a not-for-profit organization) has successfully regained complete control of all of Al Hirschfeld's work and announced today that any and all relationships between it and Margo Feiden/The Margo Feiden Galleries (the Feiden Parties) are 100% terminated.

The Stage Managers' Association (SMA) and Ohio Valley USITT (OVS) have announced the National Collaborators Conference, which will take place virtually on October 9 - 11, 2020 from Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH.

Telsey and Company has issued a statement acknowledging any harm its practices have caused to the BIPOC community, and how it plans to make positive changes.

Beyond the Stage Door, a new education initiative conceived, created and sponsored by the team at Baseline Theatrical (Hamilton, freestyle love supreme, The Cher Show), offers the opportunity to learn Broadway theatre management from working industry professionals in New York City without the financial burden.

SMU DataArts, a national center for arts research at Southern Methodist University, today released its sixth annual Arts Vibrancy Index , which ranks more than 900 communities across the country, examining the level of supply, demand and government support for the arts in each city.

On October 3rd, Master Teacher Richard Lawson will be joined by director/writer/actor Lily Mariye. Ten actors will be given the opportunity to have their self-tape auditions be assessed and redirected by Mr. Lawson and Ms. Mariye.

A lot of what we have this week falls more on the 'bad news' side of the equation, so be sure and check out the fun video involving the cast of the Frozen films that we link to at the end.

Like many of you, I spent a lot of time over the past week reading remembrance articles about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Without venturing into the political, I was deeply struck by how important the arts - particularly the performing arts - were to her throughout her life and time on the Supreme Court.

Theatre Now has announced today that Colleen Harris has joined the organization as Managing Director. Harris comes to the organization after several years as the Theater Manager and later the Director of Human Resources for New World Stages.

Award-winning producer Diana DiMenna is pleased to announce that esteemed colleagues Brian Moreland and Rachel Sussman have joined Plate Spinner Productions, the producing company DiMenna launched in 2018.

Today, the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA) announced the TSDCA Audio Drama/Podcast Summit, a multi-week event designed to give sound designers and composers the tools and methods that they need in order to successfully navigate this new and rapidly growing field.

The 2020 Kesselring Prize for playwriting-a $25,000 award given annually to an outstanding playwright deserving of national recognition-will be given this year to Mona Mansour, it has been announced by The National Arts Club, which has bestowed the award since 1980.

Broadway Veteran, Kevin Massey (A Gentlemana??s Guide to Love and Murder), has announced the launch of Empowering the Artist, a new automated booking solution for teaching artists in the theatre community.

Black Acting Methods Studio and the Helen Weinberger Center for Drama & Playwrighting have announced the upcoming symposium, a?oeTeaching Tarell Alvin McCraneya?? from the 20th to 22nd of October, 2020.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Society announces the digital publication of the Fall 2020 issue of its magazine, SDC Journal. The special issue, running 80 pages, is focused on the devastating impact of COVID-19 on theatre and theatre artists, and the long-overdue racial reckoning and call for equity in all facets of society, including the theatre.

The National Endowment for the Arts with the American Theatre Wing announced today the winners of the 2020 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge.

The Dramatists Guild Legal Defense Fund is partnering with The Dramatists Guild Political Engagement Initiative to present Banned Together 2020. The week-long series of events, which spans from Monday, September 28 to Saturday, October 3, includes two online panel discussions that will highlight BIPOC writers.

The Parent Artist Advocacy League announces the second annual PAAL Summit, a gathering for institutional and individual training, networking, and community for caregivers and the performing arts and media institutions who support them.

From the minds that developed Goldstar into one of the largest live event discovery services of its time comes Stellar, a new premium streaming platform for fans of live performances and the first-ever Total Show Management System for producers of online live events.