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Professor Kirk Lynn, head of the playwriting program at The University of Texas at Austin, often tells fellow faculty members that if they want to know what performance art will look like in the next decade, they should check out the Cohen New Works Festival. The student-run biennial event is a production of the College […] ....
Deborah Wicks La Puma and directed by Anna Skidis Vargas, Producing Artistic Director for Theatre Nuevo in St. Louis. This Amplify production explores the question: what happens when the substitute gym teacher is kicked out of the Zoom Room of a virtual gym class and the students take over? Performed in English with some Spanish lyrics, audiences will want to unmute their streaming devices to enjoy this fun and timely virtual play, to which we all can relate. Recommended for families with young people ages 10+. Approximate running time is 15 minutes. First Stage developed this new series to offer virtual short plays created by Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) playwrights that center on the young person’s point or view, amplifying the voices of these artists and young people throughout the Milwaukee community. The organization has had a long history of age-appropriate casting and of centering its work on the young person’s point of view. Understan ....
Lewis Center names Fellows for 2021-23 2 / 3 3 / 3 ❮ 2 / 3 3 / 3 ❮ ❯ Interdisciplinary tap dance artist Michael J. Love; filmmaker and visual artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden; and comedian, actress and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid have been named Princeton University Arts Fellows for 2021-23 by the Lewis Center for the Arts, and as such will begin two years of teaching and community collaboration in September. The Arts Fellows program of the Lewis Center provides support for early-career artists who have demonstrated both extraordinary promise and a record of achievement in their fields with the opportunity to further their work while teaching within a liberal arts context, according to information provided by the Lewis Center. ....