"The Associations Advancing Equitable Evaluation Practices (AAEEP)* came together earlier this year to support and advance the equitable evaluation field of study and practice. As a part of …
"The lack of widespread acknowledgement or recognition for Harriet E. Wilson, the first African American novelist and author of Our Nig (1859), comes as a surprise. A New Englander, Wilson r…
David Dower: "[Foundry co-founder Melanie Joseph has] been so far out in front of the field for thirty years, in a place the American theatre " with its templated, collectively bargained lan…
Brooke Mosay Ammann: "In 2018, First Nations Development Institute and Frontline Solutions released We Need to Change How We Think, a report that served as an introductory communication brid…
"Opening Tuesday at the Geffen Playhouse, The Thanksgiving Play centers on a group of 'woke' white thespians who struggle to devise a historically accurate and culturally sensitive elementar…
"Godfrey L. Simmons Jr. has built a career making room for others. In 2012 he co-founded the community-minded Civic Ensemble in Ithaca, N.Y., and he will next take the reins as artistic dire…
"The expectation of unpaid internships is a barrier for young people from distressed communities to gain work experience and subsequent entry into the performing arts administration workforc…
"In the 1910s and 1920s, a number of African American women poets and authors turned to drama to address racial violence. Writers such as: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mary Bu…
David Giles: "As one of the designers of Culture Pass, I could not be more pleased with the results so far. After launching in summer 2018 with twenty-nine participating organizations and se…
"[POWER Lunch host Ntokozo Mazibuko] speaks to entrepreneur Ofentse Pitse, the first young black woman to own and conduct an all-black orchestra [in South Africa]." (audio) " POWER Lunch (So…
"The Open Society Foundations has announced the launch of a four-year, $15 million initiative aimed at returning cultural objects looted from the African continent. The initiative will suppo…
"While the foundation will continue to support nonprofit arts organizations that are creating, producing, and presenting performances across the region and will continue to fund organization…
"The trauma of her assault is the subject of [soprano Lucy] Dhegrae's four-concert Processing Series, which opens on Saturday at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. The series attempts to shed lig…
"As a conductor, Kim Diehnelt has to do a lot of schmoozing and interacting with people. She was so uncomfortable with that, she considered hanging up her baton. Then four years ago, she was…
Only 16 artists still practice the art of Cheriyal " but they're working hard to expand (re-expand) their ranks. To grow the popularity, one artist says, "We began making tissue boxes, penci…
Christian settlers and missionaries feared and banned throat singing, so the choice to make a Christmas album wasn't exactly obvious, they say. "At the same time, they say some of their m…
Sir Stephen Cleobury conducted the King's College Choir for nearly 40 years and instituted the annual commissioning of a new Christmas carol. He retired two months ago. "He was influential i…
And it's bigger than mountain folds, valley folds, and damp-paper shaping: "A few years ago, NASA engineers were able to create foldable telescopes and a flower-shaped shade to block o…
Lauren E. Turner, founder of the New Orleans theatre company No Dream Deferred, says that she was deeply lucky as a kid. "I was taught creating space was my duty. The idea of what was out th…
The metal detectorists found a hoard, didn't report it, and sold most of it " and now they're jailed for a very long time. "The hoard " much of which is still missing " could shed new light …
Nottage: "Yes, I have to go sometimes to where my audience is, rather than being confined by the proscenium"which forces us to have a certain level of engagement, which means I have to sit v…
Instead, it's about the dark abyss of the adult soul. "Adulthood, for most of us, is about acquiring the skills to feel no feelings at all. Feelings are distracting, inefficient, unoptimi…
And, obviously, blockbusters are killing them. (The cheap little awards-bait movies, the under-$20-million movies, might be OK.) " The New York Times
And that's true in weapons and swordfighting theatre classes as well. Ask one student-turned-devotee: "In theatrical swordfighting, you're following choreography and working with your partne…
Here's the deal: "Each section has a reputation based loosely on the personality types drawn to certain instruments and the parts they play on the field. Trumpets generally own the melody, s…