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'Artists On Creative Administration: A Workbook From The National Center For Choreography' Will Be Published This September

The National Center for Choreography-Akron (NCCAkron) has announced Artists on Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center for Choreography, a new book edited by artist/cultural strategist Tonya Lockyer.
PEAK Performances to Present Netta Yerushalmy's MOVEMENT

PEAK Performances at Montclair State University continues to introduce audiences to new work from today’s most exciting dance artists with the world premiere of Movement, in which celebrated choreographer Netta Yerushalmy intricately quilts together quotations from a vast array of sources.
Live Arts Producers Form Alliance To Collaborate On COVID-19 Crisis Management and Long-Term Programs

More than 50 independent producers of live artsa?"representatives of a critical, oft-overlooked cross-section of the field­a?"have joined forces as the Creative & Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA) to address the urgent need for rebuilding and sustainability, advance cultural representation and resist historically oppressive institutional structures, and create systems of support necessary to ensure a future for artist-driven contemporary performance in a post-pandemic world.
Center Theatre Group Accepting Submissions For 2021 Dorothy And Richard E. Sherwood Award

Center Theatre Group is now accepting submissions for the 2021 Dorothy and Richard E. Sherwood Award. The deadline to submit an application is June 17, 2020, at noon.
Photo Flash: A Look Inside The 28th Annual L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards

The 28th Annual LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement throughout Los Angeles, were presented on Monday, January 29, at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in downtown LA.
Winners Announced for 28th Annual LA STAGE ALLIANCE OVATION AWARDS

The 28th Annual LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement throughout Los Angeles, were presented on Monday, January 29, at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in downtown LA.
Finalists Announced for CTG's 2018 Richard E. Sherwood Award

Three finalists have been selected for Center Theatre Group's 2018 Richard E. Sherwood Award: Gina Young, Marsian De Lellis and Hana Kim. Center Theatre Group recognizes and celebrates this year's finalists for their exceptional contributions to the Los Angeles theatre landscape and their work as innovative and adventurous artists.
New Dance that Abandons Boundaries Comes to Grand Performances

Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP) curates No Side Now, an evening of new experimental dance, presented by Grand Performances as part of its free summer concert series in Downtown Los Angeles. Four L.A. based choreographers celebrate dance's capacity to deflect, refract and repurpose a viewer's presumptions in works that abandon boundaries and blur binaries. Featuring Milka Djordjevich, d. Sabela grimes, Amy O'Neal and Micaela Taylor, the performance takes place at 8p on Friday, August 4, 2017. Like all Grand Performances events, the program is free to all.
Center Theatre Group Seeks Applications for 2018 Sherwood Award

Center Theatre Group is now accepting submissions for the 2018 Richard E. Sherwood Award. The deadline to submit an application is June 5, 2017, at 11:59 p.m.
Pablo Santiago Named Sherwood Award Winner at 2017 Ovation Awards

Center Theatre Group recognizes and celebrates the recipient of the 2017 Richard E. Sherwood Award, Pablo Santiago, for his exceptional contribution to the Los Angeles theatre landscape and his work as innovative and adventurous artist.
Center Theatre Group Announces Three 2017 Sherwood Award Finalists

Three finalists have been selected for Center Theatre Group's 2017 Richard E. Sherwood Award: Jenny Foldenauer, Pablo Santiago and Keith Skretch. Center Theatre Group recognizes and celebrates this year's finalists for their exceptional contributions to the Los Angeles theatre landscape and their work as innovative and adventurous artists.
WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT and More Set for L.A.P.P. & Bootleg Theater's Performance Exchange Series

Los Angeles Performance Practice (L.A.P.P.) and Bootleg Theater partner to host Performance Exchange, a series of curated performances highlighting L.A. productions to be presented during the 2016 Western Arts Alliance (WAA) Conference. 
Update: THE DAY SHALL DECLARE IT Extended Through 7/31

After the sold-out and award-winning success of The Day Shall Declare It in 2015, Wilderness returns to the Los Angeles Arts District to remount its immersive, site-specific theatre experience, opening Tuesday, May 10, 2016 and running through Sunday, June 19, 2016. [UPDATE: The show has been extended thru July 31st by popular demand!] The internationally acclaimed physical theatre piece weaves together dynamic movement with a collage of American labor literature from Tennessee Williams and Studs Terkel, exploring the concept of work in America: what it does for us - and what it does to us. 
Immersive THE DAY SHALL DECLARE IT Returns to LA in May

After the sold-out and award-winning success of The Day Shall Declare It in 2015, Wilderness returns to the Los Angeles Arts District to remount its immersive, site-specific theatre experience, opening Tuesday, May 10, 2016 and running through Sunday, June 19, 2016. The internationally acclaimed physical theatre piece weaves together dynamic movement with a collage of American labor literature from Tennessee Williams and Studs Terkel, exploring the concept of work in America: what it does for us - and what it does to us. Developed and co-directed by Annie Saunders and Sophie Bortolussi (Punchdrunk's Sleep No More), The Day Shall Declare It will run for a limited time, to audiences of only thirty people per show. The intimate performances will run six nights a week, Tuesday through Sunday, with doors opening at 8:00pm and performances beginning at 8:30pm. The 2016 version sees the addition of  "The Paradise," an exclusive pop-up bar with live music curated by Vagrant Bartenders. Wilderness, an experimental performance company that brings temporary theatrical experiences to vacant buildings awaiting redevelopment, presents this work in partnership with Ad Age Standout 2015 production company HeLo, and in association with Los Angeles Performance Practice and Imperial Art Studios. For more information, please visit http://thisisthewilderness.com.
CTG Announces Three Finalists for 2016 Sherwood Award

Three finalists have been selected for Center Theatre Group's 2016 Richard E. Sherwood Award: Miwa Matreyek, Dr. Chantal Rodriguez and Kevin Williamson. Center Theatre Group recognizes and celebrates this year's finalists for their exceptional contributions to the Los Angeles theatre landscape and their potential as innovative and adventurous artists.
Apply for CTG's $10,000 Sherwood Award Through June 15

Center Theatre Group's annual Richard E. Sherwood Award, a $10,000 award designed to nurture innovative and adventurous emerging Los Angeles theatre artists, is open for application now through June 15, 2015.
THE BIG QUIZ THING, THE MOTH, FIFTY SHADES OF BEY and More Set for OBERON's April-May 2015 Lineup

OBERON, the American Repertory Theater's (A.R.T.) second stage and club theater venue on the fringe of Harvard Square, announces all the offerings to be presented at OBERON during the months of April and May, in addition to the previously announced productions, including Visiting Artists, Artists in Residence, and Usual Suspects.
Finalists Announced for USA Exhibit to the 2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design & Space

The USITT-USA curatorial team chose two shows from Ripe Time Theatre in New York, a multimedia production from Paul Abacus, a “wandering opera” staged at LA's Union Station, and performance pieces from faculty at Auburn University in Alabama and Colorado College as the best overall productions for the exhibit.
CTG Reveals 2015 Sherwood Award Finalists

Three finalists have been selected for Center Theatre Group's 2015 Richard E. Sherwood Award.
CTG Seeks Submissions for 2015 Richard E. Sherwood Award; Application Deadline 6/30/14

Center Theatre Group (CTG) is now accepting submissions for the 2015 Richard E. Sherwood Award. The Sherwood Award is an annual $10,000 fund to support Los Angeles theatre artists. The award is presented each year at the Ovation Awards ceremony produced by LA Stage Alliance.

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