“At what point does satire stop being thoughtful commentary and start becoming cruel exploitation?”

“The theatre’s President and CEO suggested that it was the industry’s fault for not training BIPOC performers enough to meet their audition standards.”

“A community theatre in California is asking for help after a fire destroyed their storage facility containing more than 40 years-worth of their props, costumes, sets, and historical records, just four days before their next performance.”

“Police arrested theatre teacher, Aaron Kanak, for allegedly texting inappropriate things to a student.”

“According to a lawsuit, a former theatre teacher at a Catholic school in San Francisco has been accused of sexually abusing one of his former students.”

A drama teacher at Temecula Valley High School in CA has been put on leave following a complaint from a parent over an assignment involving the play "Angels in America".

‘A former high school theatre technical specialist is headed to jail after pleading guilty to texting illicit images to his students.”

“A critic is under fire for racist comments he wrote in a review of the Broadway-bound revival of ‘The Secret Garden’. The comments included criticizing the casting of black actors, stating that one of them ‘looks and acts like he should be rafting with Huck and Jim down the Mississippi.’”

Rogers: The Musical is coming to Broadway….sort of. Starting this summer for a limited-time engagement, a short one-act version of Rogers: The Musical will debut on the Hyperion Stage inside Disney’s California Adventure Park.”

“While Joseph Brian Houg will certainly be spending a substantial amount of his remaining life in jail, it doesn’t necessarily repair the damage he inflicted on the youth theatre community in Los Gatos for decades. Because Joseph Brian Houg regularly used his positions in the school and theatre to abuse children.”

“We want them to know that they have value, that their stories have value, that their voices have value, that their own way of speaking or writing has value, and that we deeply care about that,” Chavez said. “We care so much that we will bring in all these mentors and actors and a sound designer. We will bring this bevy of adults who care about their expression and that gives them the confidence to take what they’ve learned from our program and apply it to another class.”