The Department of Theatre Arts at Western Connecticut State University is proud to present its Spring Virtual Production Series. The series comprises four unique productions that will be broadcast twice over two weekends spanning Thursday, Apr. 29, through Sunday, May 9. A ticket to each performance date will allow the purchaser to access the show over the course of 24 hours that day. The WCSU Theatre Arts faculty is very proud of what we ve been able to accomplish this year regarding our virtual productions, said Department of Theatre Arts Associate Chair and Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre Justin P. Cowan. Between last fall and this spring, our department will have fully produced and streamed a total of nine productions. Considering that most of our professional industry has been on hold for over a year, we are thrilled to not only be providing theatre to our community and beyond, but also to be providing such meaningful opportunities for our students. These productions
Erika Dickerson-Despenza Wins Blackburn Prize for âcullud wattahâ
The play is about the effect of the Flint, Mich., water crisis on three generations of women.
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April 7, 2021, 4:00 p.m. ET
Erika Dickerson-Despenza quit her last non-theater job in 2019, ready to pursue a full-time career as a playwright in New York. And that career was looking good: she was wrapping up a fellowship at the Lark, starting a residency at the Public Theater, and working on a play inspired by the Flint water crisis.
The Public scheduled a staging of that play â her first professional production â for the summer of 2020.
Erika Dickerson-Despenza wins 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Her play is about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
April 8, 2021
The winner of the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded, honoring the writing of female playwrights. This year’s winner is Erika Dickerson-Despenza with
cullud wattah, a new work exploring three generations of Black women living through the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
“I wrote cullud wattah to explore the politics of disgust, shame and refusal by highlighting the rupture of government intervention at the intersection of capitalism and environmental racism” says Dickerson-Despenza. She continued to say “I wrote this play specifically for black women on the margins of the margins. Poor and working class black women, single mothers, elders and widows, black women in recovery, and queer black girls.”
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Washington Theater Group Asked Job Applicants About Toxic Whiteness
On 4/7/21 at 6:02 AM EDT
A theater in Washington state has attracted attention after it asked job applicants to explain how they would disrupt the toxic whiteness of the musical theater genre.
The job application was for a Youth Education Teaching Artist role at the Village Theatres. The theaters are based in the cities of Everett and Issaquah, and the non-profit is a leading producer of musicals in the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1979, it s one of the region s biggest theatres, attracting around 220,000 people each season.
After being asked by local broadcaster KTTH whether or not the question was appropriate, the theater removed it.