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TACA expanding Pop-Up Grant program with Artist Bonus funds Feb 1, 2021 | Kateri Cale, artistic director of Echo Theatre. Echo received a Pop-Up Grant from TACA last fall. The Arts Community Alliance has announced an expansion of its Pop-Up Grant program to include Artist Bonus funds, a new source of funding for individual artists, providing them financial support while the arts continue to feel the impact of the pandemic, while extending the program through 2021. The addition of the artist bonus funding is made possible by a $180,000 gift from the March Family Foundation. The Pop-Up Grant p...

Stage woke Echo Theatre reinvents its mission with “women+” Rich Lopez | Contributing Writer For more than 20 years, Echo Theatre has produced stage and theater with a focus on women playwrights and creatives. But as times, identities and conversations progressed, the theater company realized it needed to progress as well. Thus, as part of its new initiative, Echo Theatre was inspired to adjust its mission “to champion the diverse voices of women+.” With a new board of directors and mission and vision, Echo has a whole new outlook. “We wanted to take a look at ourselves and see if E...

As North Texas theater companies brace for more COVID complications, ‘The Cube’ dares to bring back live audiences Plus, learn how local theater groups are adjusting their 2021 seasons and where to attend live, outdoor performances this spring. A curtained-off square serves as projection screen and audience pod in "The Cube" at the Latino Cultural Center.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) The title character in The Cube, a daring new piece of meta-theater inside the Latino Cultural Center, wonders why human beings need to examine their existence and long for connection to other people, u...