Via TodayTix. WHY DID IT TAKE A PANDEMIC FOR BROADWAY TO PAY ATTENTION TO BLACK ARTISTS? June 18, 2020 by Zhailon Levingston It took a pandemic for Broadway to care about Black lives, and even so the jury is out on whether or not they truly care yet or if they have nothing better to do than … Read More

Via American Theatre and Rattlestick Theater.  What It Means to Be a Playwright Right Now This disorienting global moment is not an intermission—it’s the main drama itself. BY IDRIS GOODWIN Lights up on a freshly opened laptop or heavily sanitized smartphone screen The scroll begins, and down the timeline we go In the quick-moving montage, we … Read More

Via American Theatre.  The Ground on Which I Stand by August Wilson African American theatre is distinct, distinguished, and fully deserving of the kind of funding and respect too often reserved for white culture and institutions. BY AUGUST WILSON Some time ago I had an occasion to speak to a group of international playwrights. They had come from … Read More

Via Slave Play:  RESOURCES A LIST OF ARTICLES, FILMS, AND BOOKS TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND SLAVE PLAY FROM A HISTORICAL CONTEXT. ESSAYS “VENUS IN TWO ACTS.” SAIDIYA HARTMAN, SMALL AXE, 2008. Hartman maps out the systemic violence visited upon the bodies and memories of enslaved black women and girls. “WHITE FRAGILITY.” ROBIN DIANGELO, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL PEDAGOGY, 2011. The author examines the … Read More

We stand on this ground as BIPOC theatremakers, multi-generational, at varied stages in our careers, but fiercely in love with the Theatre. Too much to continue it under abuse. We will wrap the least privileged among us in protection, and fearlessly share our many truths. About theatres, executive leaders, critics, casting directors, agents, unions, com- … Read More