Opera Australia has partnered with The Bourne Foundation to offer year 11 and 12 students $20 tickets to see Puccini’s Turandot and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro during its summer season at the Sydney Opera House. School students with an interest in music, drama, fashion, art and design are invited to experience the joy of live opera, with subsidised tickets […]
Great Britain’s favourite night of the year for music is soon to be upon us, as the Brit Awards 2022 creep ever closer.
On Sunday, September 26, the long-awaited 74th Annual Tony Awards aired, promising a new theatre industry that is equitable and accountable. Showing a triumphant return to Broadway, the two-part ceremony was to celebrate an industry gone from a year and a half. In that year and a half, however, social change begun. The insurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement made its way to the Great White Way, which has been telling its many workers that big change is coming to the industry, and that it will come out as a better Broadway. But was that reflected at the awards ceremony?
Zebedee is a specialist talent agency created to increase the representation of people who have until now been excluded in the media, including people with disabilities or alternative appearances and trans/non binary. They are a small workforce but work extremely hard across the world. Zebedee currently operate in the UK, US, parts of mainland Europe and are now expanding to Australia in 2021. They have recently launched our Influencer division also.
Peter Royston, he/him/his is an equity stage manager based in New York and originally from the Bay Area. His credits include Blue Man Group, The Public Theater, The Lark, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Repertory Theatre, and TheatreWorks among many others since 2017. Peter has become a vocal advocate and ally to the disabled community, specifically through his lived experiences as a white gay man with cerebral palsy.
Lisa Carling is the Director of Accessibility Programs at TDF, and helps design and implement services that make theatre performances more accessible to people with disabilities on Broadway, Off Broadway and nationwide. She runs a department that provides autism-friendly, open captioned, audio described and sign language interpreted performances, as well as seating for theatregoers with mobility disabilities. The department assists regional theatres across the country in starting their own captioning and sensory-friendly programming, and provides grants through a partnership with New York State Council on the Arts to state cultural organisation for captioning events that are open to the public.
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