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The beleaguered New York City theatre unveils a new board of directors, diversity initiatives, and a residency for the cohort that called for change.

Jacob’s Pillow announces performers for 2021 summer dance festival Updated 11:22 AM; Facebook Share World-renowned dancers will return to the stage for live performances this summer at Jacob’s Pillow, which recently announced its full list of performers for the 2021 summer festival. Due to the on-going worldwide pandemic, all of the performances will take place outside with reduced audience capacity. All of the performances will also be available for viewing online. This is the first summe...

The 2021 summer Festival will be the first to feature on-site and online programming.  On-site events will run June 30-Aug. 29, with online streaming through Sept. 23. The newly imagined Festival — with the safety of artists, staff and audiences at the forefront of all planning — will feature commissioned works and world premieres and engage hundreds of artists who have had incredibly limited performance opportunities for the past year because of the global coronavirus pandemic. (Jac...

Simone Leigh selected longtime collaborator and friend Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich to talk about experimenting with new media, the importance of failure in one’s career, and what it means to be a “race woman.” Simone Leigh is an artist working with sculpture, installation, video, and social practice. In 2018, Leigh was awarded the Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Prize. Her sixteen-foot-tall sculpture, Brick House, is currently installed on New York City’s High Line. A solo exhibition of new...