Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group, announced today that Matthew Broderick, Tyne Daly, Louis Gossett Jr., Thomas Sadoski, Jimmy Smits, Rene Auberjonois, Jon Robin Baitz, Bill Cain, Anthony Crivello, Culture Clash, Merle Dandridge, Tim Dang, Keith David, Shaila Essley, Davis Gaines, Harry Groener, Clint Holmes, David Henry Hwang, Gregory Itzin, Dale Kristien, Doug Labrecque, Tzi Ma, Alan Mandell, Dakin Matthews, Christina Saffran, Benjamin Schrader, Shoshannah Stern, Lisa Vroman, Ed Waterstreet and Aryana Williams are set to take the stage at Center Theatre Group's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
- 5/8/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tim Dang, Producing Artistic Director of East West Players in Los Angeles, CA, is the 2015 recipient of the Zelda Fichandler Award, an award to recognize an outstanding director or choreographer who is transforming the regional arts landscape through imaginative, brave work in theatre. The 5,000 award, given by Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, heralds both accomplishment to date and promise for the future, and lauds deep commitment to a community.
- 9/24/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Producing Artistic Director of East West Players Tim Dang just announced a 'call to action' addressing the SoCal theatre community and companies across the United States 'demanding equity, diversity and inclusion' with a '51 Preparedness Plan for the American Theatre.' The plan asks theaters to make sure, over the course of the next five years, that both their organization's artists and production personnel will be at least 51 percent people of color, women, or under 35 years of age. According to the Los Angeles Times, the announcement has received some pushback from those arguing that the plan 'would institute quotas and violate state and federal employment laws.'...
- 1/20/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
East West Players on Wednesday will open a playwriting competition with a $5,000 grand prize. The contest, dubbed “2042: See Change,” is part of an initiative to promote diversity in American theater. While Ewp considers itself to be “the nation’s premier Asian American theatre organization,” playwrights don’t need to be Asian to submit. “All the scripts are read blind—there’s no title and no author. We don’t know if they’re Asian or not, or male or female,” Tim Dang, Ewp’s producing artistic director, told Backstage. He noted a previous Ewp playwriting competition picked Les Thomas' "Cave Quest" as the winner. Moreover, all three winners of Ewp’s 2011 playwriting competition, which was called Face of the Future, have gone on to world premiere productions with two produced in house at Ewp and Lauren Yee’s “Samsara” set to open February 2015 at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago.
- 9/30/2014
- backstage.com
The sequestration budget cuts that clicked in automatically after Congress failed to reach a deal before March 1 could lead to fewer roles for actors. Small and mid-sized theaters from New York to Los Angeles are bracing for the across-the-board cuts to federal funding mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011. Those cuts will include the National Endowment for the Arts, which helps theaters fund production costs through grants. The Nea is set to take a $7.3 million cut—5 percent of the agency's overall current budget—divided between its grants and administrative costs. Grants that have already been awarded won't be reduced, the Nea says, but rather it is future funding that will be scaled back to meet the new fiscal reality. Theater executives who have been through government budget tightening before say it’s likely most organizations will see a percentage reduction rather than an outright elimination of their funding. Still,...
- 3/12/2013
- backstage.com
Los Angeles theater executives are mulling whether a director’s artistic vision is compromised by a push for diversity. Critics have said Asian-American, African-American, and Latino actors have limited opportunities on American stages despite the country’s growing diversity. On Oct. 22, East West Players (Ewp), an Asian-American theater organization based in Los Angeles, held a forum on race politics which brought out some of the top artistic directors in Southern California. Tim Dang, Ewp’s producing artistic director, said those who attended, which included Christopher Ashley, Ad of the La Jolla Playhouse, Michael Ritchie, the Center Theatre Group’s Ad, South Coast Repertory Ad Marc Masterson, and Sheldon Epps, the Ad of Pasadena Playhouse, couldn’t reach a consensus about expanding opportunities for minority actors. “The artistic directors want to support whatever the vision is of the director,” Dang told Backstage. “We couldn’t find anyone to say, ‘Yes, I’m committed to diversity,...
- 10/24/2012
- backstage.com
Asian American actors need more opportunities on Los Angeles-area stages. That's the message that Tim Dang, producing artistic director at East West Players, hopes four artistic directors from major Southern California theaters take away from an upcoming forum. East West Players (Ewp), an Asian-American theatre organization, has organized “Why Not Asian? Why Asian?,” a forum on race politics in the American theatre for Oct. 22 at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood. Christopher Ashley, of the La Jolla Playhouse, Sheldon Epps, of the Pasadena Playhouse, Marc Masterson of South Coast Repertory, and Center Theatre Group’s Michael Ritchie are all slated to attend. Dang said he hopes the four will take away a desire to create programs that develop diversity within the casts of their productions. "If we look at television and film, they're getting a lot better at their diversity than theater is," Dang told Backstage.
- 10/10/2012
- backstage.com
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