Twin Cities theatres team up to bring more diversity to the stage
(FOX 9) - Five theatres from across the country are teaming up to bring culturally diverse productions to the stage. We feel this is a major initiative that could have incredible national implications, said Peter Brosius, artistic director at Children’s Theatre Company.
Twin Cities theatres team up to bring more diversity to the stage
Two Twin Cities theatres are teaming up to bring more diversity to the stage as part of national effort.
The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis and the Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul are part of Generation Now.
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Eric Ting remembers the chill that passed through the room when someone coughed during the California Shakespeare Theater gala in March of last year. The annual fundraising event essential to the theater’s $5 million budget was celebrating a turning point for the 47-year-old company, where Ting became artistic director in 2015: He would announce that Cal Shakes was planning to move its offices and shop from Berkeley to downtown Oakland, showing that “where we make our home reflects our priorities,” and he would describe ways the company would be collaborating with community partners. “It was kind of a seminal moment,” Ting says.1
New nonprofit runs fund for survivors of Children s Theatre abuse The Children s Theatre Company agreed to start the fund with $500,000. January 6, 2021 4:01pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Survivors of sex abuse at the Children s Theatre Company have formed a new nonprofit to administer a fund seeded with money from the south Minneapolis theater, doling out grants starting this spring.
It comes more than a year after the theater reached final settlements in sex abuse cases involving the then-child actors in the 1970s and 1980s. Children s Theatre Company (CTC) Managing Director Kimberly Motes issued a public apology in November 2019 and vowed to make changes, including establishing the survivors fund.