“I’ve seen white performers show up late for call or call out at the last minute for reasons they’re not being honest about. I’ve seen white performers throw fits in rehearsal studios, dressing rooms, and recording booths. Yet their employment is never threatened. Producing teams don’t shun them, they try to appease them.

But for the black performer? We’re the ones who have to behave, stay in line, don’t act out. We’re the toxic element that needs to be removed for the production to go on as a cohesive unit.”

During the opening night red carpet of MJ: The Musical, a reporter from Variety was kicked out of the press line because he was asking questions about the allegations of sexual abuse that followed Michael Jackson the last twenty years of his life and beyond.

“The “secrets” of dance training are now open to the public, and it’s exciting to imagine how this will change dance in the years to come.”

“Often called “The Greatest Dance Teacher There Ever Was,” the musical theater and dance world was forever changed for the better because of Joan.”

“No system will be perfect, and art will never be objective, but I absolutely find value in participating in the recognition and celebration of theatrical productions in my community.”

“Actor James Snyder, who was playing the title character in Broadway’s “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” has been fired from the play following an investigation of the actor’s conduct after a co-star filed a complaint.”

“That theatre people don’t seem to know that Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman were fellow theatre people first seems to me like a failing of theatre. But it also confirms the ways that theatre’s exclusivity and protectiveness of Broadway as a “brand” limited the types of stories that could be told onstage.”

“It's daunting for the theater industry to have to reinvent itself. But at this point, it seems an inevitability.”

“In my BA program, I am not just learning what theatre is and how to create it, but also what art is and how it pertains to the world around us.”

“No one is talking about what’s really going on behind the lobby doors on Broadway. In an effort to get to the “new normal” and for life to “move on” post Covid there’s a lot that’s been swept under the rug in a seeming attempt to prove the adage “ignorance is bliss.”"

“Beneath the obvious concern of getting sick and infecting loved ones, shows with deep pockets have still only allotted to pay for a fraction of the necessary time to quarantine, shouldering the cost of getting infected on the worker.’

“Producing theatre in a pandemic has completely changed the narrative around performing while sick. The caution around illness has forced us to take a step back before deciding to perform or rehearse with symptoms.”