Pride Month 2023

Pivot Arts During Pride Month, Pivot Arts will be presenting The Memory Place, a unique multi-arts experience amplifying untold stories and hidden histories. As part of the performance, trans and non-binary writer and director, Lucky Stiff, performs their original work, and choreographer/dancer, Davon Suttles, presents a work about LGBTQ+ relations with religious organizations told through tap dance, gospel music, and mixed media. For more information and to reserve tickets, visit https://pivotarts.org/. The performance runs Thursdays thru Sundays June 1-11 only https://chicagoplays.com/event/the-memory-place/ PrideArts PrideArts will be hosting 2 events for this year’s Pride …

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Juneteenth 2023

Steppenwolf Theatre Company Date: Thursday, June 29 at 7pm  Chicago drag artist Bambi Banks-Couleé hosts a theatre based drag show! Get ready to goop, gag, wig and be shook as hilarity ensues and legs are split. https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets–events/lookout/summer-22/jush-hour/ Court Theatre Soulful and stirring, this one-of-a-kind theatrical event breathes new life into the Oedipus myth with a score of powerful gospel music. A bold collaboration from an extraordinary team led by Mark J.P. Hood and Charles Newell, The Gospel at Colonus builds upon the strengths and experiences of its artists to bring this redemptive …

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Ideas for A Season of Concern Event?

See Flyer Season of Concern welcomes ideas for events that are conceived, organized and managed by our Friends and Supporters. Do you have a great idea for an event that would benefit Season of Concern? LET’S TALK! Send your ideas to: Managing Director Michael Ryczek Michael@SeasonofConcern.org or call 312-332-0518 Founded in 1987, Season of Concern Chicago is dedicated to providing financial assistance to Chicagoland theater practitioners, both Equity and Non-Equity, impacted by illness, injury or circumstance that prevents them from working. We provide short-term emergency financial assistance to theater practitioners through our …

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Jeff Impact Fellowship

The Jeff Awards is proud to present the Jeff Impact Fellowship designed to inspire early to mid-career artists of color in the greater Chicagoland area to pursue artistic excellence.  This fellowship was made possible by a generous donation gifted to the Jeff Awards and will support the selected artists in their professional, academic and/or personal development.  This year, the Fellowship will provide two (2) artists with a gift of $10,000 each to support their work. Further, our donor has guaranteed these monies for a minimum of five years, and outside donors may …

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The League of Chicago Theatres awards the 2023 Samuel G. Roberson Jr. Resident Fellowship to Tonika Lewis Johnson and Rivendell Theatre Ensemble

Chicago (March 23, 2023) – The League of Chicago Theatres has awarded the 2023 Samuel G. Roberson Jr. Resident Fellowship to artist/activist Tonika Lewis Johnson and Rivendell Theatre Ensemble to collaborate on The Folded Map Project. The fellowship is funded by the McMullen & Kime Charitable Trust and administered by the League of Chicago Theatres. The 2023 Samuel G. Roberson Jr. Resident Fellowship is an annual grant awarded to a Black Theatre Artist to fund a residency or collaboration with a Chicago area non-profit organization. Johnson and Rivendell Theatre Ensemble will collaborate …

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Women’s History Month Programming

Radial Gradient at Shattered Globe Theatre  Runs Jan 27 – Mar 11, 2023 Three women enter a research study hoping to create positive change after a hate crime takes place at a liberal university in America. Post-show event on Sunday, March 5. This performance features a short spoken word and dance performance by Global Girls following our 3:00pm matinee performance. https://chicagoplays.com/event/radial-gradient/ Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill at Mercury Theater Runs Jan 27 – Mar 26, 2023 Turn back the clock to 1956 for an intimate cabaret performance with the greatest …

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Moonshot Report

Making theatre repertoire decisions is complex, high-risk, and difficult work. These decisions set the trajectory for all that follows, and the process of making them deserves far more attention. After decades of audience erosion, the future of theatre clearly depends on more people choosing to attend. But that will require far more than continuing to invest in improving marketing and fundraising functions. It will require holistic new strategies to produce work compelling enough to artists and audiences to overcome the significant underlying social, cultural, and economic changes that have driven the erosion. …

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