The Perpetual Foreigner of American Theatre

by Diep Tran

in Activism,Diversity

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(Christine Toy Johnson, Pun Bandhu and Angel Desai at the roundtable. Photo: Bruce Alan Johnson) Where are all the Asians? That seemed to be the question at hand last Monday, Feb. 13, during the Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC) roundtable, with a pun-filled title: “RepresenAsian: The Changing Face of Theatre,” at Fordham University. The [...]

Artist, Immigrant: Jojo Gonzalez

by Marcy Arlin

in Artistry,Global Citizenship,Interviews

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The United States is a multicultural nation, and nowhere is that truer than in the arts. However, the full range of the diverse cultures working in the arts often occurs out of the spotlight. As Artistic Director of Immigrants’ Theatre Project I have worked with immigrant theatre artists from over ninety nations, including the Native [...]

World Theatre Day Message To Be Delivered By John Malkovich

by TCG News February 21, 2012 Events
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Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre and home of the U.S. Centerof the International Theatre Institute (ITI-US), invites all theatres, individual artists, institutions and audiences to celebrate the 50th annual World Theatre Day on March 27, 2012. Each year, a renowned theatre artist of world stature is invited by ITI Worldwide in [...]

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Teresa’s Weekly Update: Creative Frontiers Edition

by Teresa Eyring February 21, 2012 Weekly Update
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I recently traveled to Anchorage to visit TCG’s three member theatres in Alaska: Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Cyrano’s Theatre Company in Anchorage and “the world’s northernmost company,” Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre (FST). Perseverance opened a production of The Blue Bear, Cyrano’s held an open house with a variety of speakers (including yours truly), and the FST [...]

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Three Calls for Words on Arts Education

by Laurie Baskin February 14, 2012 Education

In addition to last week’s announcement of the NEA Roundtable, I wanted to share three newsworthy items concerning arts education: 1) NYU Forum on Theatre for Young Audiences, Future Directions in Theatre for Young Audiences, April 27-29, 2012 First up, NYU is holding a forum on theatre for young audiences and has issued a call [...]

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Teresa’s Weekly Update: Yes in a World of No

by Teresa Eyring February 13, 2012 Uncategorized
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“So we went around asking people, ‘If I started a company next year which would do live theatre and it has to be profitable, does it make sense?’ And unfortunately, or fortunately, the answer which everybody gave us in the world was ‘no’.”  So shares Sunil Vishnu K, founder and artistic director of EVAM, a [...]

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