Barrio Stories Project: Preserving a neighborhood’s identity and heritage
(Plaza Theatre in the 1950s, Tucson AZ, Photo Credit: Tucson Historical Society) This post is part of the MetLife/TCG A-Ha! Program How do we get more Latinos to come to the theatre? That is the...
View ArticleThe Launch of Youth Speaks’ New Model for Multidisciplinary Performance Work
At Youth Speaks, we have just begun a new and dynamic initiative to reignite our performance program and form a new performance company. Our goal is to create a new company led by younger artists...
View ArticleWows, Wonders and Lessons From The 524 Project
About a year ago, YPT teamed up with Detroit-based arts educator InsideOut Literary Arts Project (iO) and DC documentary film company Meridian Hill Pictures (MHP) to create The 524 Project, a...
View ArticleStaying Mindful Through the Practice
At Youth Speaks, we are continuing to move forward and make new discoveries around our dynamic initiative to reignite our Performance program and form a new performance company. The beginning of this...
View ArticlePost-launch thoughts on the new Playwrights’ Center website
Image caption: pwcenter.org Through funding from the MetLife/TCG A-ha! Program, the Playwrights’ Center developed and launched a re-imagined online and mobile resource hub for playwrights. The project...
View ArticleMixed Blood Theatre’s DISABILITY VISIBILITY project
(Disability Visibility is made possible by the MetLife/TCG A-Ha! Program.) The Mixed Blood Theatre seeks an improvement in the relationship between the American theatre and disability. There is a...
View ArticlePlanting Seeds and Learning Patience
Manhattan Theatre Club’s Education Department has been working to remedy a lack of diversity within our internship program for several years. At the onset of the A-Ha! grant, the department assessed...
View ArticleBecoming Strangers to Ourselves (or Activating the Staff)
One of the major steps The Old Globe has undertaken in its AHA process so far is to engage and activate the staff of the theatre as important participants in the Think-It process. For many years, the...
View ArticleBarrio Monologues
(Photo by Marc Pinate. The Barrio Stories project is supported by the MetLife/TCG A-Ha! Program.) The Barrio Stories project consists of three phases: Research, Development, and Production. As...
View ArticleLooking Inward and Looking Outward
(MTC Intern Supervisors hold a small group discussion during the Diversity and Inclusion Workshop led by Gwen Cochran Hadden. Photo: Amy Harris) I began by reflecting on the rewarding recruitment...
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