Posts by meghan@theatrebayarea.org
Advocacy Update: Arts, Culture, & Creativity Month
It’s Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month in California! If you’ve seen a spike in arts advocacy content on your social media in the past week, there’s a good reason for it. Last week kicked off Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month, an annual, month-long effort to highlight the work of artists in our state. Much of…
Read MoreAngel Adedokun Awarded the 2022 RHE Foundation Artistic Fellowship
Theatre Bay Area and the RHE Charitable Foundation are thrilled to announce Angel Adedokun as the 2022 RHE Foundation Artistic Fellow. Angel is a bilingual vocalist, songwriter, and dancer who will be featured as Hélène in Shotgun Players’ upcoming production, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. Her debut EP, Love Always, Angel, was released in…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2022-23 Arts Leadership Residency Cohort
Theatre Bay Area’s Arts Leadership Residency removes roadblocks to arts leadership for historically marginalized groups by funding theatremakers in residence at professional theatres where they will be mentored by the artistic director or managing director and direct or produce a significant project. Learn more here: Theatre Bay Area Arts Leadership Residency. Tanika Baptiste, in residence at…
Read MoreGlickman Award Winner Finds Humor and Depth in Discord
by Edward Guthmann In his scathingly funny Eureka Day, Oakland playwright Jonathan Spector satirized the anti-vaxxing debate—and set his comedy in a fictitious Berkeley private school where the platitudes of political correctness frequently intercept any semblance of reasonable discourse. “Jonathan Spector’s play is so crisply defined that you might have to periodically remind yourself that you haven’t…
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