Peta calls for pork-free menus as Peppa Pig show rolls into Grimsby

Children's theatre | The Guardian: Campaigners are calling on theatre bosses to stop serving bacon, sausages and ham in their cafes – at least while Peppa Pig and her family are performing in the same building. Grimsby Auditorium in Lincolnshire said this week it would remove pork from the menu when Peppa Pig’s Big Family Show opens next month, after a request from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta UK). The campaign group is sending the venue vegan ham as an alternative.

Jamey Lundblad named chief marketing officer for Americans for the Arts

www.broadwaynews.com: National arts advocacy nonprofit Americans for the Arts (AFTA) has announced the appointment of Jamey Lundblad as its chief marketing officer. Lundbland will step into this position beginning on Nov. 12. As chief marketing officer, Lundblad will lead the organization’s marketing and communications strategy with goals of strengthening AFTA’s brand, driving growth and championing the arts as essential to communities nationwide.

From V to You: It’s Time to Fight for Mother Earth

AMERICAN THEATRE: “We want you to panic; we want you to act. You stole our future and we want it back.” With headbanging passion, the youth-driven cast of the new musical Dear Everything rocked it out at New York City’s Terminal 5, in a one-night concert in January, with a message for adults: Do something.

Instigating Institutional Change Towards Decolonization

HowlRound Theatre Commons: The Global First Nations Performance Network (GFNPN) is thinking about how to be acute and responsible while acknowledging that the systemic inequities revealed by this pandemic are reflective of the deliberate settler-colonialist project and paradigm.

GFNPN will continue to grow alongside our accomplices. The work and efforts of our cultural organizations in these times of urgency and emergency must consider, center, and continue toward decolonization and indigenization rather than forsake these shifts in consciousness, awareness, and action for the sake of a “return to normalcy.”

"I’m Not Interested in More Allies. I Need Advocates." A conversation with Michael J. Bobbitt and Raymond O. Caldwell

DC Theatre Scene: What is it like for leaders of Color to work in White theatres? This Howlround Theatre Commons interview is between two well-known Washington area leaders: Michael J. Bobbitt, former Artistic Director of Adventure Theatre MTC, now Artistic Director of New Repertory Theatre in Boston, and director Raymond O. Caldwell, Artistic Director of Theater Alliance.

A Manifesto for Staging Gendered Violence

HowlRound Theatre Commons: The performance and staging of gendered violence is a political issue, and not a recent one. Gendered violence can be understood as a spectrum of acts, ranging from physical, sexual, and emotional abuses against marginalized women, to acts that nullify and demean women’s resistance to patriarchy. Women’s resistance takes on a variety of forms, such as anger, joy, care, self-preservation, and protest.

Q&A: Should we keep producing 'Miss Saigon'?

Datebook: If theater were to excise from its canon every problematic work of art — every play espousing racism, sexism, nationalism or some other nefarious belief — we’d not only have a paltry repertoire, we’d also rob ourselves of the chance to learn from our classics’ failures.

House to Consider Proposal to Cut NEA Funding By 15%

Variety: The House of Representatives may vote on Wednesday on an effort to cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities by 15%.