Tuesday, November 02, 2021
Series of Social Justice Initiatives Announced In Conjunction with Broadway Production of CLYDE'S
www.broadwayworld.com: Second Stage Theater has announced a series of social justice initiatives centered around the upcoming Broadway production of Lynn Nottage's play, Clyde's, directed by Kate Whoriskey. A funny, moving, and inspiring new play, Clyde's centers around the lives of four formerly incarcerated kitchen staff working at a sandwich shop and looking to reclaim their lives.
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The upcoming Broadway production of Clyde’s, a show centered around the lives of four formerly incarcerated kitchen staff working at a sandwich shop and looking to reclaim their lives, has led Second Stage Theatre to implement a series of initiatives centered around social justice. This includes a paid apprenticeship for justice system-impacted youth, weekly talkbacks and discussions with people in the social justice field, hosting a job fair connecting individuals impacted by the justice system with job opportunities and training, subsidized tickets for formerly incarcerated individuals and their families, and more. Theatres moving towards initiatives like this is how theatres can act upon their mission statements that often are empty words about accessibility. Second Stage Theatre’s initiatives show that accessibility comes in many forms and can have different emphasis--so why have many theatres failed their ‘commitments’ to accessibility? I’m very interested in how long Second Stage Theatre commits to these initiatives and whether they expand these programs, but regardless, this is a meaningful and executable start to making theatre more accessible and equitable.
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