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Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director Johanna Pfaelzer today announced an ambitious new work, The Waves in Quarantine, a project consisting of six short films that meditates on friendship, loss, and the making of art in this world-changing year, inspired by Virginia Woolf’s 1931 masterpiece. Produced by the Theatre and based on a musical adaptation of Woolf’s novel, The Waves, the film features a celebrated Broadway cast including Alice Ripley (Tony Award winner, Next to Normal) Raúl Esparza (Tony Award nominee, Company, and star of Law & Order: SVU), and Carmen Cusack (Tony Award nominee, Bright Star), directed by two-time Obie Award winner Lisa Peterson with award-winning cinematographer Zelmira Gainza (Luxor, The Outside Story) serving as director of photography.

The Waves in Quarantine will be available for free beginning, April 29 through May 28 and can be streamed on the Berkeley Rep website.

In kitchens and on couches, at beaches and on rooftops, The Waves in Quarantine invites an audience into the creative process. As Virginia Woolf ingeniously excavated the inner lives of six friends in her groundbreaking novel, Peterson and her collaborators create a film in six movements that meditates on themes from the musical adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece The Waves.

“The musical adaptation of The Waves is a project that Lisa and Raúl and I have been in a long-term conversation about, since we did a developmental production of it at New York Stage and Film in 2018,” said Artistic Director Johanna Pfaelzer. “As the pandemic took hold, they began to imagine a way to make use of this time of isolation, shutdown, and longing—whose themes are so poignantly paralleled in Woolf’s novel itself. An extraordinary group of artists assembled around this effort, coming together remotely from far-flung locations, and this series of six short films is constructed to share their exploration of Woolf’s text (as reimagined by Lisa) and the gorgeous music composed by David Bucknam and Adam Gwon. Making films (and making them remotely!) is certainly new territory for Berkeley Rep, but this time has required that we all learn new ways of supporting artists, engaging with audiences, and sharing stories. I am incredibly proud of the form-breaking work that this team has created, and can’t wait to bring it to an audience.”

The Waves musical adaptation was originally produced by New York Theatre Workshop in 1991 and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Music); it was recently revived and reworked at New York Stage and Film in 2018. This 2021 version, The Waves in Quarantine, was shot at home and outside by the six actors and a team of theatre professionals spanning the United States and Europe, working remotely using DSLR cameras and iPhones.

A virtual opening night is planned for April 29 at 6 p.m. and will include a screening of all six movements and a conversation with Lisa Peterson, Raúl Esparza and Adam Gwon. A second virtual event is scheduled for May 6 and will include a conversation with members of the cast. Both events will be moderated by Artistic Director Johanna Pfaelzer and Berkeley Rep’s Resident Dramaturg Madeleine Oldham live via Zoom.

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RSVP for The Waves in Quarantine.

Beginning April 29, Stanford Live will begin the series Stanford Under the Stars: Movie Nights at Frost. Every week films that have a connection with Stanford University will play at the outdoor Frost Amphitheater, following state social-distancing protocol.

Stanford Under the Stars: Movie Nights curates a selection based on actors that attended Stanford University and films located in Northern California. The movies range from children’s films such as Frozen 2 (connected through Sterling K. Brown who studied economics and then drama at Stanford) to Aliens (Sigourney Weaver class of ’72) to short films from Stanford University MFA students.

This series will be a return to live programming for Stanford Live after canceling all live events last March due to COVID-19. “We are so excited to start bringing people back into our spaces and think this movie series is a fun way to kick things off,” said Chris Lorway, Stanford Live’s executive director. “We know that creating a safe environment for these events is important to our audiences, so we’ve spent months developing our health and safety protocols and following the latest county and state guidelines.”

These safety protocols include limiting audience numbers in the Frost Amphitheater to 400 people, less than 5% of the total capacity. The seating will allow for social distancing from other groups and audiences will be required to wear face coverings during the events.

The full schedule of films can be viewed here.

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Tickets cost $15 and will be available in groups of one, two, four and six. Tickets will go on sale to the public on April 9 and can be purchased here.

Ten esteemed writers take listeners on an aural adventure to meaningful places around Berkeley.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced today that all 10 episodes of the audio series Place/Settings: Berkeley are now available. Place/Settings: Berkeley premiered on January 12 with one episode released each week. Now listeners can enjoy the entire series all in one sitting. Each episode runs approximately 10-20 minutes.

Ten revered writers, each with deep ties to Berkeley, have all crafted a story around a place or a setting within the city of Berkeley that is significant to them. Celebrated New Yorker illustrator Tom Toro has created a physical fold out map that will be mailed to each ticket buyer. Place/Settings: Berkeley is free to 2021 Berkeley Rep 7-Play subscribers and $10 for others.

The Fundamental Kiss, With Overtones

By Eisa Davis

Set at the corner of Oxford and Center

A young oboist kisses a pianist on a street corner. At long last! But the kiss unlocks pressures, expectations, dreams, and fears. Can we learn to live with uncertainty? To ask for what we need?

night fishing

By Philip Kan Gotanda, read by Steven Anthony Jones and BD Wong

Set at an imaginary dried-up lake in Tilden Park

On a chilly autumn night, an old fisherman makes his way to the lake in the dark. He casts a line…and reels in the ghost he’s been seeking.

The Black Mass Sonata

By Daniel Handler, read by Lance Gardner

Set at The Musical Offering Café

Bored, lost, and lonely, a teenager stumbles into a café. While eating a cup of soup, he hears a wondrously inscrutable sonata, and begins to sense that being lost might not be such a lonesome condition after all.

West Berkeley West Indian

By Aya de León

Set at Franklin School 

How do you find your people in middle school – especially when you don’t quite fit the mold? A girl experiments, assimilates, adapts, and journeys towards genuine self-love and community.

20 Weeks

By Adam Mansbach

Set at Alta Bates

Hope, fear, excitement, and a dizzying array of possibilities unspool across an expectant dad’s imagination, as he and his partner navigate medical uncertainties and rediscover each other as almost-parents.

Suicide on Telegraph

by Richard Montoya

Set at Robbie’s Coffee House and Diner on Telegraph Ave.

It’s 1959, and tobacco smoke snakes across the bustling café from its prized corner table, where artists and students debate political treatises, muse on philosophy, and share thrilling new poetry.

The Slide

by Itamar Moses

Set at the slide in Codornices Park

A neighborhood park – its playground, sloping hillside, and basketball court; its tunnel to a rose garden and many paths – bears witness to a boy, growing up and growing old.

The Third Sphere

by Kamala Parks read by Denmo Ibrahim

Set at North Berkeley BART

Straddling the worlds of her divorced parents, Yasmine doesn’t feel fully at home in either. Desperate to see her best friend in San Francisco, she embarks on the voyage across the Bay alone, exhilarated at her newfound independence.

The Character Actor

by Sarah Ruhl directed by Les Waters read by Charles Shaw Robinson

Set at Berkeley Repertory Theatre

From a perch beyond this life, an actor observes as a group of masked people finally return to the courtyard of Berkeley Rep – to the theatre, the place we made to gather, breathe together, and share the stories that remind us of our humanity.

For the Record

by Sean San José

Set at Leopold’s Records on Durant Ave.

Sometimes music becomes indelibly linked to specific memories, invoking the people with whom we shared them. Songs by Isaac Hayes, Peter Tosh, Stevie Wonder, the Doors, the Knight Brothers, and Patti LaBelle conjure a deep friendship, one that began on a hot night in 1986 outside Leopold’s Records.

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Place/Settings: Berkeley is free to 2021 Berkeley Rep 7-Play subscribers and $10 for others. View more information and listen to Place/Settings: Berkeley here.

Has Valentine’s Day caught you by surprise this year? With everything else happening, planning a Valentine’s date may be the last thing on your to-do list. Not to worry—we’ve got three ways you can bring the romance right to your living room. Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet are streaming performances throughout Valentine’s Day weekend so you can share the drama and enchantment of the performing arts with your love at home.

Roméo et Juliette

February 11–15

When you think of iconic romances a few come to mind; Jack and Rose, Wesley and Buttercup, Elizabeth and Mr. Darby, and of course, Romeo and Juliet. Pacific Northwest Ballet presents Jean-Christophe Maillot’s interpretation of the star-crossed lovers’ story. Maillot focuses his ballet on the youthfulness and extreme emotions that the titular characters experience. This beautiful choreography is accompanied by Sergei Prokofiev’s classic score.

We promise you and your partner’s evening will be far from ill-fated.

Purchase tickets here to stream—$29/$39

To Woo: A Shakespeare Valentine

February 12–14

It wouldn’t be a proper Valentine’s Day without the master of love and desire: William Shakespeare. Seattle Shakespeare Company presents a collection of scenes, sonnets and songs from the Bard’s works that will inspire love, joy and romance. Directed by George Mount, Makaela Milburn and Lamar Legend, these selections will be performed by 21 talented artists, many of whom you may recognize from Seattle Shakespeare and other local Seattle performances.    

Register here to stream—free    

The Elixir of Love

February 12–14

Back by popular demand, Seattle Opera presents this romantic comedy for a second time after its resounding success in November 2020. With music by Gaetano Donizetti and a libretto by Felice Romani, The Elixir of Love tells the age-old story of a man going to extreme lengths to win the heart of his love. Naive Nemorino purchases a “love potion” from a shady source to use on Adina, and somehow it works! Enjoy this staging designed specifically for streaming at home, where you can sing along—if you know Italian, that is.

Purchase tickets here to stream—$35

This month enjoy Black history, Black arts, Black artists, and Black heritage through a virtual or drive-in event. We have compiled a few opportunities throughout Black History Month to get involved. Don’t forget to follow these organizations and artists to learn about future events and to stay involved in Black-focused arts year-round; the importance of Black voices is not prescribed to one month.

August Wilson Reading Challenge

February 2021

Celebrate Black History Month with Seattle Rep by joining the August Wilson Reading Challenge. To ramp up for the 11th annual August Wilson Monologue Challenge, Seattle Rep is inviting the community to read all 10 plays in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle during February. Get involved by sharing your inspiration for participation and why Wilson’s works are important to you.

Beginning on February 12, Seattle Rep will host virtual book club meetings to delve deeper into the Century Cycle and discuss the plays with others. 

Learn more about the event and where to find the plays here. 

African Dance Class

Ongoing

Join a class this month with Gansango Music & Dance. Every Monday and Wednesday at 10 a.m. or Fridays at 7 p.m., you can join an online class with Etienne Cakpo where you will learn contemporary African dance and traditional dance from Benin. All levels are welcome!

Register for a class here.

Sites of Power

Ongoing 

“Sites of Power”is the latest Black Imagination exhibition-slash-experience co-created in community to center and amplify the resonance of intersectional Black voices. Viral conceptual artist, Natasha Marin, led the evocative iteration of this on-going project with award-winning director, Jay O’Leary Woods. Including living testimonies, audio files, videos, and visual art, there is plenty here to enjoy.

Listen, watch and imagine with the online exhibit here.

A Night at the Opera: Celebrating Black Voices

February 13 at 6:30 p.m.

Northwest African American Museum and Seattle Opera present a live, drive-in event at the Museum of Flight. The event will present contemporary Black singers, ranging from soprano to baritone, performing pieces that highlight and celebrate Black history. Performers include Frederick Ballentine, Damien Geter, Jasmine Habersham and Jorell Williams.

Purchase tickets for the event here.

Charcoal, Wood, and Metal: Charmaine Lurch’s “Being, Belonging and Grace”

February 16 at 12 p.m.

Wa Na Wari presents a virtual lecture by Katherine McKittrick, Professor of Gender Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s “rethinking aesthetics” and Andrea Fatona’s “undulating depths of fields,” this paper will theorize the charcoal drawings of visual artist Charmaine Lurch as unwieldy and provisional moments of joy. Rather than exalting Black joy, the paper will demonstrate how Lurch’s aesthetic decisions visually gesture blackness as a location of entanglement, one that captures brief moments of happiness—relief, actually—and nests them within the broader context of racial violence, colonialism and extraction.

Learn more about the event and join here.

Black Theatre Beyond the Politics of Representation

February 23 at 5 p.m.

Intiman Theatre presents a Black History Month virtual conversation with Stacie McCormick, PhD and Wind Dell Woods, MFA/PhD, hosted by Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud, PhD. Discussing questions such as, what are the tensions embedded in the politics of representation for Black theatre artists? How can Black theatre become a liberatory space that pierces the veneer of how blackness gets to be represented on stage?

Register for the event here.

When History is Your Story

February 24 at 6:30 p.m.

Co-presented by the Black Heritage Society of Washington State and MOHAI, this virtual event features places, people and legacies shared by community members Eddie Rye, Ryan Donaldson, and Chardonnay Beaver. Hear stories of how moments have impacted their lives as they answer the question: how does history shape who you are?

Register for the free event here. 

Truth & Meaning at Play: The Work of a Contemporary Dramaturg

February 26 at 5:30 p.m.

Cal Shakes Resident Dramaturg Phillipa Kelly speaks with Dr. Martine Kei Green-Rogers in this virtual series. Green-Rogers will describe how she and director Ron OJ Parson have approached the staging of August Wilson’s plays. In the same spirit of Wilson pushing the truths (the good and the bad) of the Black experience into a larger limelight until the day he died, Green-Rogers will discuss how her work on Wilson’s canon at the Court Theatre with Parson resists, complicates, and exposes the patterns of oppression that Black people in the U.S. experience while also celebrating the joy that is being Black in the U.S.

Register for the event here.

Call & Response

February 28 at 4 p.m.

Living Jazz presents a unique series of intimate conversations featuring some of the world’s most iconic jazz musicians. This event focuses on the role of the artist as a catalyst for change with Grammy award-winning bassist Christian McBride.

Moderated by Andre Kimo Stone Guess, McBride will speak candidly about the inspiration behind their music, their struggles and victories, what it means to be an artist during these challenging times, and what the future holds for the music industry. The virtual event will include a question-and-answer segment with audience participation.  

Register for the event here.

In an upcoming virtual event on February 4, artist Anastacia-Renee will lead a discussion that explores how Artist Trust “and other artist-serving organizations interrupt white supremacy”.

As many of us meet the new year with equal measures of renewed hope and lingering trepidation, Artist Trust is welcoming it, and you, with opportunities for improvement and change. On February 4, Artist Trust will hold Community Conversation: Racial Equity, the second in a virtual event series. Anastacia-Renee will be joined by Washington artists Raleigh Hawthrone, Emma Noyes, Elisheba Johnson and Che Sehyun to discuss how organizations that serve the artistic community can combat racism and white supremacy. The conversation will be followed by a question-and-answer session with attendees.   

This community event is part of Artist Trust’s larger undertaking to dismantle racial inequity for people of color in artist-focused organizations, including their own. In July 2020, Artist Trust was urged by the community to confront the institutional racism and white supremacy within their own organization. Other steps include hiring a racial equity consultant to review the organization’s programs, resources, development, communications and operations, and creating a new Racial Equity Committee. All with the goal of igniting a cultural change within Artist Trust and their donors, volunteers, artists and partner organizations.

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Community Conversation: Racial Equity will be held on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 5 to 6:15 p.m. You can RSVP for the free event and learn more about the discussion leaders here.

Museums are the corner stone of culture in our region, ranging from fine art to anthropology to culture. Due to the severe impact of COVID-19 and the extended closure of museums, it is important that we embrace and re-engage with these cultural organizations.

Encore partnered with ArtsFund, 4Culture and local museums to create The Museum Guide to help educate, engage and safely invite patrons back into museums. As a cooperative marketing effort, The Museum Guide was mailed to museum members and patrons across the Puget Sound region promoting upcoming exhibits, event—both in-person and virtual, and new entry processes to keep all visitors safe.

Enjoy reading The Museum Guide to help you plan a visit to a museum in the coming weeks and months. Join us in saying ‘Welcome Back’ to our cultural community!

The Digital Beethoven Fest will take place June 22–26 and will include panel discussions, performances, and family programming to celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday. 

Last year—before any of us had heard of the Corona virus—Seattle Symphony announced that they would be celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday with a festival. Originally planned to take place over three weeks this month, the festival would highlight all nine symphonies performed by the orchestra, as well as music created, inspired and performed by the community. 

The Beethoven Festival performances and events have, of course, been canceled as a result of COVID-19. However, the Seattle Symphony has announced that they will be presenting a Digital Beethoven Fest instead. The Symphony, led by Music Director Thomas Dausgaard, will offer hosted panel discussions with orchestra musicians and local artists and composers; the family program, Tiny Tots; and special Morning Notes performances throughout the week by members of the orchestra and partner artists.

All performances and programs will be available through Seattle Symphony’s  YouTube channel. 

Festival Schedule

Hosted Panel Discussion: Thomas Dausgaard & Paul Chiyokten Wagner

Monday, June 22, at 2 p.m. 

Hosted Panel Discussion: Angelique Poteat, Megan McCormick & Christine Siegert

Wednesday, June 24 at 2 p.m.

Family Programming: Tiny Clips for Tiny Tots Beethoven’s Birthday

Friday, June 26 at 11 a.m.

Hosted Panel Discussion: Charles Corey & Mary Lynch

Friday, June 26 at 2 p.m. 

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More information can be found on Seattle Symphony’s website.

San Francisco Opera has announced they will be canceling their entire 2020 fall season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The cancellations will include their Opening Night Celebration (September 11), Fidelio (September 12–October 1), Rigoletto (September 13–October 4), Così fan tutte (October 6–28), The Handmaid’s Tale (October 29–November 22), and La Bohème (November 15–December 6).

The decision to cancel the five operas in the fall 2020 season comes from the current guidelines and recommendations for preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Matthew Shilvock, San Francisco Opera’s general director, announced the cancellation saying, “It is heartbreaking to have to make this announcement today. It will mean a full year without opera on the War Memorial stage and the loss of projects that would have connected powerfully with our world today.”

San Francisco Opera plans to return with the planned spring 2021 season which will include The Barber of Seville (April 25–May 16) and Der Zwerg (April 27–May 15). The opera company will also continue offering virtual events and digital content through their website as part of their Opera Is ON programming. 

Due to the fall performance cancellations, the renovations of the War Memorial Opera House, which were originally planned to take place May–August, 2021, have been rescheduled for this fall. This will allow for the possibility of offering more performances and other events next summer, when it is safe for the public to return. 

San Francisco Opera has asked ticketholders of the fall 2021 season to consider contributing their ticket purchases as a donation or receiving a gift certificate for the value of the tickets to assist the opera during these financially difficult times. Refund information is also available on their website.  

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Opera is ON programming can be found on San Francisco’s website.

Whether you want to dive deep into a Netflix series, join an August Wilson book club, or learn about writing from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, we’ve got 10 things for you to watch, read and listen to from Black artists and community members. While most of these videos, essays, podcasts and groups focus on Black representation and experience in the arts, some are more general and focus on the political and societal injustices of Black people in America with ways that you can learn more.

Watch

Black Representation in the Arts

Seattle Opera hosts this community conversation that explores questions like: How does the storytelling change when Black creators and artistic leaders are the ones making decisions behind the scenes? How can companies help to undo harm, create a more diverse pipeline of talent, implement more race-affirming performance practices, and ultimately, enable the decolonization of these historically white-dominated art forms?

The conversation is led by Seattle Opera Scholar in Residence Naomi André, professor at the University of Michigan and author of Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement. Speakers include Theresa Ruth Howard, formerly of Dance Theatre of Harlem and founder and curator of the Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet, and Bridgette A. Wimberly, award-winning poet, playwright and librettist of Charlie Parker’s Yardbird.

Watch on YouTube.

Much Ado About Nothing

This interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece features an all-Black cast including Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black, Broadway’s The Color Purple) and Grantham Coleman (Buzzer, The Americans) as the sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick. Tony Award winner Kenny Leon (American Son, A Raisin in the Sun) directs with choreography by Tony Award nominee Camille A. Brown (Choir Boy).

Watch on PBS through June 7.

‘When They See Us’ & Study Guide

When They See Us is a miniseries that tells the true story of New York’s Exonerated Five. In 1989, five teenagers of color were wrongfully arrested, charged and incarcerated with the crime of rape and murder. The miniseries explores the institutional racism, coercion and injustice these boys and their families faced. Watch the miniseries and use the study guide to challenge yourself to think deeply and self-reflectively about systemic injustice and how you can take action.

“My goal when making When They See Us was to create a project that could be a catalyst for conversation and change. Entertainment serves many purposes and the mission was to create something that might move us into action while challenging us to evaluate why we believe what we believe.”

Ava DuVernay, filmmaker

Watch the miniseries on Netflix and download the Study Guide.

Read

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Reading Group

As part of American Conservatory Theater’s Meads Reads book club for plays, Director of Dramaturgy and New Work Joy Meads hosts a lively conversation surrounding a rich dramatic text. After reading the same play, the group will gather on Zoom to explore its layers of meaning. Each play comes with a suggestion for dinner from a local restaurant and/or a drink recipe from a local mixologist, and A.C.T. will partner with small publishers, local booksellers and individual playwrights to make scripts available.

The upcoming play for the reading group is August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. This 1982 play is part of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle and is set in 1920s Chicago (the only one of the 10 plays to take place outside Pittsburgh). The play deals with the racial exploitation of a Black blues singer by her white manager and record company owner.

Register here for the book club meeting on June 25.  

Black Women’s Leadership in the Opera: A Century in the Making

An essay by Whitney French discussing the opera Treemonisha. Before COVID-19 forced a cancellation, Stanford Live was preparing to present the world premiere of Treemonisha, a reimagined version of the 1911 opera by Scott Joplin, which was the first opera written about life post-slavery by a Black person. French’s essay explores the modernizing of the original source material by a predominantly Black, female creative team.

“[My hope is] that they would be inspired by Treemonisha. This idea of self-realization, self-actualization, and courage keeps us inspired and lifted. I feel passionately that this story can capture those common human aspirations.”

Jessie Montgomery, co-arranger

Read on Stanford Live’s website.

I am Wole, I am Heiner: For a Fully Realized Representation of Brown Artists on Stage

In this essay, Sadie Berlin, a theatre and performance artist, questions assumptions projected upon marginalized voices, including the performance of oppression and the obligation to chronicle social disease. This essay is one of five-part series, Beyond the Western Canon, in which writers and theatre artists look beyond the “Western Canon.” Artists image how we can create more inclusive future canons of work and challenge current dominant views and structures in theatre and plays.

 “The margin is where live our fears, disgust, neglect, ignorance, intolerance, our deepest desires. In those hidden parts live the marginalized and we as a society cannot progress without focus on margins.”

-Sadie Berlin, theatre and performance artist 

Read the essay on HowlRound.

Listen

Daughters of Lorraine

This podcast is hosted by two doctoral theatre students, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley. The podcast features reviews of Black theatre productions (mainly in the DC/Baltimore area), current national conversations around, within, and about Black theatre, academic discussions concerning Black theatre, recommendations on Black theatre scripts, and interviews with Black theatre artists. This podcast centers and privileges the narratives of Black theatremakers, scholars and audiences while also underscoring the need for understanding the influence of Black theatre on the American theatre landscape.

Listen to the series on Howlround’s website or on Spotify.

Black Theatre Matters

Black Theatre Matters is a bi-weekly podcast covering the plays, people, and topics of importance to Black Theatre. Every other week they will explore stories that support, celebrate and highlight the achievements and issues of Black Theatre artists in the U.S. and throughout the diaspora. Hosted by Plowshare Theatre Company’s Producing Artistic Director Gary Anderson, Black Theatre Matters is about the intersection of culture, politics, and Blackness. 

The most recent episode, “The New Normal” touches on the effect COVID-19 has and will continue to have on Black theatre artists.

Listen to the series on their website or on Apple Podcasts.

Meet

Know Your Vote: What is Democracy in America?

In partnership with MOHAI (Museum of History & Industry), Northwest African American Museum invites you to join a virtual dialogue on the topic of democracy in the United States. Moderator, Moni Tep and guest, Gennette Cordova—writer and founder of the nonprofit Lorraine House—will explore the topics of voter suppression, demographics that are included and excluded from the voting process, how to sift through information on candidates, and personal reflections on their participation/non-participation, plus the historical significance of those choices. Tune in to the dialogue and participate by submitting your own questions in Zoom.

Register here for the Zoom meeting on June 6.

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

The Public Theater presents Watch Me Work, a masterclass with playwright Suzan-Lori Parks,livestreamed on HowlRound TV along with a Zoom session that the public can register for. The class is one hour, in which the first 20 minutes Parks and Zoom attendants will work on their writing. In the last 40 minutes, Parks will answer questions from attendants about being a writer and her process.

Register here for the Zoom class on June 3.

Register here for the Zoom class on June 4. 

Watch the livestream on HowlRound TV.