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Blue Bird Corp. has named Britton Smith as senior vice president of electrification and chief strategy officer. He is responsible for further

Co-founders T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, and Reginald “Reggie” Van Lee, Board members Aaliytha Stevens and Naila McKenzie, along with Executive Director Olivia Jones, Program Director Nik Whitcomb & more announced today their upcoming virtual gala, BUILDING NEW PATHWAYS, streaming on Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 7pm.

“I feel this incredible sense of pride and accomplishment,” Nottage told The Daily News of her latest achievement. “You know, little did I know when I began this journey, as a playwright that I would be at the spot to have a play on Broadway, a Broadway musical and an opera all happen at the same moment.”

Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and countless other women of color in the Chicago Black Renaissance changed classical music around the world.

The world premiere of JC Lee's new comedy play at Second Stage Theater, To My Girls, has announced its cast. Directed by Stephen Brackett, the show begins performances at the Tony Kiser Theater off Broadway ahead of an April 12 opening night.
 
 The cast includes Mad Men's Bryan Batt, along with Jay Armstrong Johnson, Carman Lacivita, Noah J. Ricketts, and Britton Smith as a group of gay men vacationing in Palm Springs. One cast member has yet to be announced.

The world premiere will take place at Second Stage Theater's Tony Kiser Theater.

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Two high profile shows from the pandemic-shortened season — "Freestyle Love Supreme" and "David Byrnes American Utopia" will also get special Tonys. They did not provide free tickets for Tony voters and werent eligible for competitive awards. "Freestyle Love Supreme" was created by Miranda, Thomas Kail and Anthony Veneziale. It features a comedic improvisational musical structure and a rotating cast of Broadway performers. Byrnes acclaimed stage show incorporates Talking Heads classics and ot...

Frozen (Tour), and The Lion King (Broadway & Tour). These custom workshops are designed to address the ways that racial inequalities pervade the rehearsal rooms and performance spaces of the American Theatre. Many of these issues were identified during the Broadway for Black Lives Matter Again forum, which took place amid a summer of mass street protests for racial justice. BAC has created a process inspired by its Theater of Change course at Columbia Law School. The program leads companies t...

Kinky Boots, and more, Richard has been making waves on Broadway for nearly a decade but 2020 saw Richard’s profile skyrocket, a feat given the COVID-19 theatre shutdown. But much of the newfound national attention was spurred by a viral twitter post on the heels of the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, a post in which Richard detailed his own experiences facing racism on Broadway. He was one of the first to speak out, a trailblazer that helped to ignite a reckoning in the ...