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Performing Arts in United States
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Skylight Music Theatre
Skylight Music Theatre marks its 65th season in 2024-2025. Skylight is Milwaukee’s professional music theatre company, producing the full range of music theatre ranging from blockbuster Broadway musicals to reimagined operas, and from exciting world premieres to contemporary off-Broadway hits. Skylight’s home is the 350-seat Cabot Theatre, modeled after an 18th century French opera house. It is widely considered to be one of the most beautiful theatres in Milwaukee. With just 350 seats everyone has a great view and feels close to the powerful emotions on stage.
11 to 50 staff
South Orange Performing Arts Center Sopac
South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization presenting world-class artists in an up-close-and-personal intimate setting. SOPAC is an accessible cultural destination located in the heart of downtown South Orange, NJ. Our 439-seat mainstage theatre has superb acoustics and sight lines, and our 2,185 square-foot Loft is used for cabaret-style performances and is available to rent for special events. The Herb & Milly Iris Gallery at SOPAC hosts visual art exhibits year-round, and our Arts Education Program unites students with arts experiences each year.
11 to 50 staff
Stages Theatre Company
Since our founding in 1984 Stages Theatre Company has put the well-being and growth of youth in the center of everything we do—on stage, backstage, in the audience, and in the classroom. When a youth enters any of our spaces, they are the center of not only why we do what we do, but how we do it. Through our Productions, our Education Programming, our Fundraising Initiatives, the Development of New Work for the TYA Stage, and our Mentorship Programs we strive to center youth in the stories we tell, the plays we create, the curriculum we develop, the activities we initiate, and the decisions we make. As a company and a community of artists and teachers, the youth and families we serve drive what we do first, last, and always. OUR MISSION Stages Theatre Company is committed to the enrichment and education of children and youth in a professional theatre environment that stimulates artistic excellence and personal growth. OUR INCLUSION PLEDGE Stages Theatre Company is dedicated to creating a space where diverse opinions, courageous dialogue, and local, national, and international community engagement is not only valued but vital to our shared artistic and educational success. We make this pledge in the hope of curating a welcome home for all. ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT Stages Theatre Company is committed to addressing barriers that can restrict participation to our performances and programming. We believe that every individual should be able to access the joy, wonder, and benefits of participation in the theatre arts. We are working towards a future beyond compliance- toward a fully inclusive environment where all programs and performances are accessible to all.
11 to 50 staff
State Theatre New Jersey
Today, State Theatre New Jersey flourishes as the centerpiece and premier venue for the New Brunswick arts community with a diverse roster of entertainment, including international orchestras, Broadway, comedy, dance, pop, rock, family events, and more. The theater is the state’s second largest not-for-profit presenting hall, which contributes commensurately to New Jersey's $45 million performing-arts tourism industry, annually attracting more than patrons. In addition, some students and teachers annually attend its school performances and participate in its in-school robust education programs, including the Artist-in-Residence program, Family Day, Milk & Cookies Series, Scientists Exploring the Arts, Symphony Scholars, and other outreach activities.
11 to 50 staff
Stern Grove Festival Association
Stern Grove Festival Association is a non-profit cultural organization committed to providing the people of the Bay Area with admission-free access to diverse performing arts. Every year since 1938, the organization presents Stern Grove Festival, an admission-free performing arts series, in Sigmund Stern Grove, a beautiful outdoor amphitheater located at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco.
1 to 10 staff
Symphony In C
Symphony in C is a world class symphony orchestra that provides training for tomorrow's orchestra musicians, music directors, composers, and soloists; well-rounded, artistically excellent performances for a variety of audiences, and access to classical music and education programs for children, particularly those in its home community of Camden, New Jersey.
1 to 10 staff
Tacoma Arts Live
Energizing community through live performance. Tacoma Arts Live is a non-profit arts organization deeply connected to the community and recognized for presenting-world class artists, events, exhibitions, and cultural celebrations. We are leading arts access and education programs that support the development of thoughtful, balanced, and engaged citizens. Located at the historic Tacoma Armory, an innovative cultural hub, Tacoma Arts Live delivers vibrant arts, culture, and community gatherings that are transforming live performing arts and elevating the artistic caliber of the South Sound.
11 to 50 staff
The Center For Arts At The Armory
The Center for Arts at the Armory is a non-profit organization that resides in a historic Armory building, serving Somerville and the Greater Boston community through arts, cultural and community events, exhibitions, markets, classes and more. The mission of Arts at the Armory is to provide an inclusive and accessible venue that creates opportunities for artists and cultural workers, brings diverse audiences together, enriches and transforms lives, and promotes the creative economy. In addition to the many events that CAA hosts that are produced independently of CAA, CAA has five signature programs: The Spotlight Series, The Performance Opportunity Program (POP), The Somerville Winter Farmers Market, and ROOTED Armory Cafe Visual Arts Exhibitions. The repurposed Armory opened its doors as a community arts center in 2008, and Arts at the Armory became the anchor tenant in the building, operating the Performance Hall and Cafe. Arts at the Armory hosts 750+ events each year in disciplines including music, dance, theater, literary arts, visual arts, film, circus, comedy and more. Arts at the Armory provides free and accessibly priced venues to performing arts, cultural and community groups of Greater Boston. The Arts at the Armory Performance Hall and Cafe also provide a vast and inspiring panorama of arts and cultural events to audiences throughout the year. Arts at the Armory hosts dozens of markets each year, which promote the creative economy, local businesses and community economic development. Both the Cafe and the Hall are available for private rentals.
11 to 50 staff
The Chamber Music Society Of Lincoln Center
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is one of eleven constituents of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the largest performing arts complex in the world. Along with other constituents such as the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera, the Chamber Music Society has its home at Lincoln Center, in Alice Tully Hall. Through its performance, education, and recording/broadcast activities, it draws more people to chamber music than any other organization of its kind. CMS presents annual series of concerts and educational events for listeners ranging from connoisseurs to chamber music newcomers of all ages. Performing repertoire from over three centuries, and numerous premieres by living composers, CMS offers programs curated to provide listeners a comprehensive perspective on the art of chamber music. The performing artists of CMS, a multi-generational selection of expert chamber musicians, constitute an evolving repertory company capable of presenting chamber music of every instrumentation, style, and historical period (see Artists of the Society and Guests). Its annual activities include a full season of concerts and events, national and international tours, nationally televised broadcasts on Live From Lincoln Center, a radio show broadcast nationwide, and regular appearances on American Public Media’s Performance Today.
11 to 50 staff
The Metropolitan Opera Guild
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. is a supporting organization of The Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. Since 1936, the Guild has been dedicated to cultivating a wide, public and passionate base of supporters for opera and its allied arts.
1 to 10 staff
The Naples Players
The Naples Players continually seeks to enrich, educate, and entertain our community through a superior theatre experience. We are a premier theatre for the community, seeking to inspire passion for the performing arts through unparalleled access to the process, experience, and conversations surrounding the arts and our community.
11 to 50 staff
The National Theatre For Children
The National Theatre for Children, founded in 1978, delivers award-winning programming to millions of students, parents and communities across the country every year. Our live, interactive programs cover a wide range of K – 12 curricular subjects; everything from science and environmental consciousness, to financial literacy, STEM, health and social responsibility, all sponsored by familiar and trusted clients so there’s never a cost to schools. We help educators inspire and prepare the next generation of scientists, artists, thinkers, pioneers and world citizens by providing free curriculum and performances to schools all over the country.
11 to 50 staff
The New Victory Theater
The New Victory opens new worlds to young people and families through extraordinary performances, education and engagement programs. Bringing kids to the arts and the arts to kids since 1995, this nonprofit theater has become a standard-bearer of quality performing arts for young audiences in the United States. Reflecting and serving the multicultural city it calls home, New Victory is committed to arts access for all communities of New York to experience and engage with the exemplary international shows on its stages. A global leader in arts education, youth development and audience engagement, New Victory has been honored by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, by Americans for the Arts with a national Arts Education Award, and by the Drama Desk for "providing enchanting, sophisticated children's theater that appeals to the child in all of us, and for nurturing a love of theater in young people."
51 to 200 staff
The North Carolina Theatre
North Carolina's premier nonprofit professional AEA theatre production company. NCT produces live theatre, from Broadway and West End revivals, at the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh. NCT offers classes, camps and creates high school level productions at The North Carolina Theatre Conservatory. NCT Conservatory provides education, training, and apprenticeship in musical theatre, dance, acting, and singing for ages five-adult and skill levels beginner to Broadway.
11 to 50 staff
The Rock School For Dance Education
The Rock School is dedicated to enriching the lives of all students and preparing those students who are specially gifted in dance for careers as professional artists. The Rock School remains steadfast in its mission to develop the finest artists for professional companies and making dance more accessible to local communities. Known for encouraging quality academic education as well as for nurturing artistic excellence, The Rock School instills a quality of thought and action that enriches the lives of all the students regardless of their ultimate careers.
11 to 50 staff
The Shakespeare Theatre Of New Jersey
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (formerly called "New Jersey Shakespeare Festival") is one of 25 professional theatres in the state. One of the leading Shakespeare theatres in the nation — serving adults and children annually — it is New Jersey's only professional theatre company dedicated to Shakespeare's canon and other classic masterworks. Through its productions and education programs, the company strives to illuminate the universal and lasting relevance of the classics for contemporary audiences. As the longest-running Shakespeare theatre on the east coast, the Theatre’s dedication to the classics and commitment to excellence sets critical standards for the field. Under the leadership of artistic director Bonnie J. Monte since 1990, the annual Main Stage season, presented in the intimate, state-of-the-art F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre in Madison, runs May through December. An Outdoor Stage production is presented each summer at The Greek Theatre, an open-air amphitheatre located on the College of Saint Elizabeth campus in nearby Morris Township.
11 to 50 staff
The Watermill Center
Founded by avant-garde visionary Robert Wilson in 1992, The Watermill Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts supporting young and emerging artists through its year-round Artist Residency Program and International Summer Program, as well as Education Programs, exhibitions and events open to the public. The Watermill Center offers tours throughout the year of its square-foot building, which houses a library and a significant collection of global art and artifacts both contemporary and ancient, and eight-and-a-half acres of grounds and sculpture gardens. The Watermill Center stands an eight-and-a-half acre arts compound, with verdant lawns and outdoor sculpture gardens. The Center is Wilson’s summer home and home to an ever-burgeoning collection of artifacts, textiles, sculptures, furniture and other art objects that are available for study. Watermill serves as a place for artists to work, learn, create, and grow with each other, integrating performing arts practice with resources from the humanities, research from the sciences, and inspiration from the visual arts. Watermill is unique within the global landscape of experimental theatrical performance, and regularly convenes the brightest minds from all disciplines to do, in Wilson’s words, “what no one else is doing.” In addition to the long-standing International Summer Program, expanded programming in the fall and spring includes an Artist Residency Program, workshops and classes, conferences and lectures, and a variety of local and international educational partnership programs. Watermill has collaborated with institutions such as The Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, Park Avenue Armory, Kampnagel Hamburg, CUNY’s Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, ArteEast, Performa, Taipei Cultural Center, Chez Bushwick, CPR – Center for Performance Research, New York Theater Workshop, MRI – Métamatic Research Initiative and RADIALSYSTEM V in Berlin, among others.
11 to 50 staff
Theatre Aspen
THEATRE ASPEN is an award-winning professional theatre located in the John Denver Sanctuary, in the heart of downtown Aspen. With holiday cabarets, year-round educational programming and summers full of Broadway's best, TA means world-class theatre, dramatically closer. NEW WORKS Solo Flights is Theatre Aspen's premiere solo-play festival, bringing the best of developing works to be seen by industry professionals and the Aspen community. The inaugural 2019 season festival saw four world premiere pieces. The 2020 festival will be incorporated into the ALL FOR ONE season, and feature seven new works. APPRENTICE PROGRAM Theatre Aspen Apprentice Program (TAAP) chooses an elite group of aspiring professionals from over 500 applicants yearly. 2020’s elite class includes nine Production/Design apprentices, one Music Direction apprentice, two Education apprentices, three Arts Administrative apprentices and six Performing apprentices. EDUCATION Theatre Aspen School (TAS) serves both local and visiting students with year-round educational programs including after-school classes, fully-staged productions, and highly-regarded and perennially sold-out summer theatre programs for children and teens. Our approach emphasizes employing highly-qualified teaching artists to provide excellent, age-appropriate training based on national standards, which include all aspects of performance, design and stagecraft. ACCOLADES Theatre Aspen was recognized in 2016 with eight Henry Awards by the Colorado Theatre Guild, including the prestigious Outstanding Season by a Theater Company.
11 to 50 staff
Theatre West
An internationally acclaimed non-profit arts organization in Hollywood, CA. Our mission: Supporting Artists / Impacting Community Established in 1962, Theatre West is the oldest continually running theatre company in Los Angeles. Our productions have toured both sides of the Atlantic, including the Edinburgh and Dublin Festivals, New York City, Atlanta, South Carolina, Seattle, San Francisco, and throughout California. Over the years Theatre West's plays have transferred to Broadway (Spoon River Anthology, Aesop in Central Park) and to feature films (A Bronx Tale, Faithful). Some of Hollywood's brightest lights have made Theatre West their artistic home, including Betty Garrett, Lee Meriwether, Richard Dreyfuss, Jim Beaver, Harold Gould, Beau Bridges, Martin Landau, Bridget Hanley and Philip Abbott.
51 to 200 staff
Theatresquared
TheatreSquared’s locally produced and nationally acclaimed productions reach more than patrons each year. The company is Northwest Arkansas’s year-round professional resident theatre, offering a unique audience experience in an intimate setting. In 2011, TheatreSquared was recognized by the American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards, as one of the nation’s ten most promising emerging theatres. TheatreSquared’s audience includes tens of thousands of students and their teachers. The theatre partners with schools from Northwest Arkansas to the Delta Region, working to give students across Arkansas access to live performances and arts-based learning tools. A professional company, TheatreSquared employs trained artists from across the country to create its 320 annual performances and is contracted with Actors' Equity Association. The theatre is also Arkansas’s home for professional playwrights, developing scripts through the Arkansas New Play Festival and producing new works and world premieres each year. TheatreSquared recently completed a new, architecturally significant, permanent home for professional theatre in Northwest Arkansas. This square-foot cultural landmark unites two intimate theatres, rehearsal space, a three-level commons and café, outdoor gathering spaces, production workshops, offices, and artists’ apartments. Campaign efforts are in their closing phase — learn more at ournextstage.org. Since its founding 2005, TheatreSquared’s work has remained rooted in its founding vision, that “theatre—done well and with passion—can transform lives and communities.”
51 to 200 staff
Urbanity Dance
Urbanity Dance is a nonprofit arts organization that exists to inspire, engage, and empower individuals and communities through the art of dance and movement. Founded by Director Betsi Graves, Urbanity Dance was created in 2011 in the spirit of three goals: 1) to propel contemporary dance to the forefront of Boston’s cultural landscape; 2) to serve an unmet demand for access to affordable and accessible dance training; and 3) to leverage dance as tool to foster bodily autonomy and creativity in local schools and community spaces. Through three interconnected pillars of Company, School, and Community, the organization offers a resilient, powerful community platform that builds synergy, investment, and connection. Together, the Company, School, and Community programs create an interwoven network that provides high-quality art experiences to students of all ages and backgrounds, as well as paid opportunities for all professional dancers, dancemakers, artistic collaborators and teachers, that serve Urbanity’s mission, its South End neighborhood in Boston, and the city at large.
1 to 10 staff
Valley Youth Theatre
Since 1989, Valley Youth Theatre has made an impact on over a million children and their families through performances, workshops, showcases and youth development programs. Our mission is to inspire young people to be the best they can be through a wide variety of performing arts opportunities. Valley Youth Theatre has always been a safe place where ALL Valley young people can learn and grow as individuals, performers and leaders through a transformational performing arts experience. VYT cast members pay no fees to participate in our productions. Families are never charged for costumes and there are no quotas for ticket sales, making VYT one of the most accessible and diverse theatre programs in the Valley. Winner of nearly 100 National Youth Arts awards, voted “Best Star-Making Machine" and “Best Live Theater” on azcentral.com, heralded as “Best Place to Take a Bow” by Phoenix Magazine and rated one of the “Top Ten Places to Become a Future Star” by The Arizona Republic, VYT produces six mainstage shows each season including two at the Herberger Theater Center. For more information, visit VYT.com. Valley Youth Theatre is a 501(c)3 non profit.
11 to 50 staff
Virginia Arts Festival
The mission of the Virginia Arts Festival is to bring world-class performing arts to our citizens and visitors, impact the lives of students through outstanding educational programs, commission new works of national and international significance, and make a tangible difference in Hampton Roads through regional partnerships and positive economic impact through the generation of cultural tourism. The Virginia Arts Festival is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2022. The largest and most prestigious performing arts organization in southeastern Virginia, Virginia Arts Festival has transformed the region's cultural scene, presenting great performers from around the world and making this historic region a cultural destination for visitors from around the world. Over the past 25 years, the Festival has welcomed visitors from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 25 foreign countries. The Festival has presented over 1,438 performances, free community events, student matinees, and workshops with a reach of over 1.2 million attendees. Over 32% of ticket sales come from outside the region, bringing tens of thousands of visitors to local museums and attractions and filling regional hotels and restaurants. The estimated annual economic impact of the Festival exceeds $25 million. Arts education is central to the mission of the Virginia Arts Festival. Since its creation in 1997, the Festival has reached more than half a million students, providing opportunities for students and educators that simply would not otherwise exist. Each year, the Festival reaches over 300K young people through student matinees, in-school performances, workshops, and masterclasses, offering life-changing opportunities to see and study with virtuoso performers.
11 to 50 staff
Washington Performing Arts
One of the most established and honored performing arts institutions in America, Washington Performing Arts has engaged for more than half a century with artists, audiences, students, and civic life. The city is truly our stage: for decades, in venues ranging from concert halls and clubs to public parks, we have presented a tremendous range of artists and art forms, from the most distinguished symphony orchestras to both renowned and emerging artists in classical music, jazz, international genres, and more. We also have an ever-expanding artistic and educational presence on the internet, addressing the programming challenges of this time of pandemic while envisioning ongoing opportunities for online connection and community in a post-COVID world. Washington Performing Arts deeply values its partnerships with local organizations and other arts institutions. Through events online and in myriad performance venues and neighborhoods, we engage international visiting artists in community programs and introduce local artists to wider audiences. We place a premium on establishing artists as a continuing presence in the lives of both young people and adults through residencies and education programs. Our achievements have been recognized with a National Medal of Arts and with three Mayor’s Arts Awards from the DC Government. We have now embarked upon our second half-century, ever inspired by the motto of our founder, Patrick Hayes: “Everybody in, nobody out.”
11 to 50 staff
