Awards
A New Cohort of Tomorrow’s Leaders Joins the TBA Arts Leadership Residency
By Edward Guthman Four Bay Area theatre artists have been chosen in the second round of Theatre Bay Area’s Arts Leadership Residency. Virginia Blanco, Devin Cunningham, Daniel Duque-Estrada, and Julius Rea will each receive $12,000 for a 480- to 640-hour residency. The initiative was generated to redress the racial imbalance in theatre management. “We want…
Read MoreWith New Residency Program, TBA Aims To Close the Theatre Leadership Gap
by Edward Guthmann A 2020 report from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition studied the 18 largest non-profit theatres in New York as well as Broadway companies during the 2017-18 season, and showed that 80 percent of playwrights, 85.5 percent of directors and 60 percent of actors were white. That racial imbalance exists nationwide and for too long,…
Read MoreGlickman Award Winner Finds Humor and Depth in Discord
by Edward Guthmann In his scathingly funny Eureka Day, Oakland playwright Jonathan Spector satirized the anti-vaxxing debate—and set his comedy in a fictitious Berkeley private school where the platitudes of political correctness frequently intercept any semblance of reasonable discourse. “Jonathan Spector’s play is so crisply defined that you might have to periodically remind yourself that you haven’t…
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