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Performing Arts in United States
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New World Symphony
A laboratory for musical education and expression, the New World Symphony is dedicated to the artistic, personal and professional development of outstanding instrumentalists. Its fellowship program provides top graduates of music programs the opportunity to enhance their musical education with the finest professional training.
51 to 200 staff
New York Theatre Workshop
New York Theatre Workshop is a remarkable off-Broadway theatre noted for its acclaimed and innovative productions. a workshop where artists create new work, hone their craft and collaboratively explore theatre. all rooted in our cozy East Village digs located in the heart of New York's downtown arts scene. NYTW is committed to the development of innovative theatre by supporting theatre artists at all stages of their careers, providing an environment where work can be created free from the artistic compromise and forbidding financial demands often associated with commercial ventures. Over the past two decades, NYTW has evolved to become a significant force in New York City's vibrant cultural landscape and is now recognized as one of the leading producing theatres of original work in the United States. The Workshop places the artist at the center of its mission, and, as a result, the work developed and produced here is aesthetically, thematically, and methodologically diverse. During the course of a season, audiences can engage with an eclectic mix of theatre, including full-scale musicals, bare-bones readings, and multimedia productions. NYTW is renowned for producing intelligent and complex plays that expand the boundaries of theatrical form and in some new and compelling way address issues that are critical to our times. The Workshop boasts a long list of acclaimed work that includes Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul, Martha Clarke's KAOS and Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited), Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away and A Number, Jonathan Larson's Rent, Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa, John Guare's Lydie Breeze, Doug Wright's Quills, Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde, and Ivo van Hove's productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Hedda Gabler. Will Power’s hip-hop Greek tragedy The Seven will be seen around the country in upcoming years.
51 to 200 staff
Northern Stage
Northern Stage (northernstage.org) is a regional non-profit LORT-D professional theater company located in White River Junction, VT. Northern Stage actively engages its audiences with world-class productions and extensive educational and outreach programs in its home, the Barrette Center for the Arts. Founded in 1997, the company has offered more than 150 professional productions of new works, classics, and musicals. Northern Stage’s breadth of programming supports the company’s mission to “change lives, one story at a time.”
11 to 50 staff
Odc Dance
ODC is a groundbreaking contemporary arts institution, delivering its mission through a world class dance company, an innovative presenting theater and digital platform, a dance school for movers of all ages and abilities, and ODC/Heath with initiatives including a fee-free diagnostic and educational Healthy Dancers’ Clinic, and a fitness program for all levels and abilities. Guided by Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, ODC is nationally recognized for its entrepreneurial spirit and artistic innovation. Unique for its fully integrated vision, ODC strives to inspire audiences, cultivate artists, engage community, and foster diversity and inclusion through dance performance, training and mentorship. ODC operates a two-building campus consisting of a Dance Commons and the ODC Theater in San Francisco’s Mission District (when in-person activities are allowed), and a robust digital program for classes, performances and engaging dialogue. ODC’s programs and activities have contributed to community development, arts education, and access to creative art-making for 50 years.
11 to 50 staff
Omaha Symphony
Founded in 1921, the Omaha Symphony is a non-profit organization that presents more than 100 live orchestral performances from September through June. In addition to MasterWorks, Symphony Pops, Symphony Rocks, Symphony Joslyn, Movie Music, and Family series concerts, the Omaha Symphony’s nationally recognized education programs touch the lives of nearly schoolchildren each year through community engagement events and mentoring. The Omaha Symphony is the largest performing arts organization in Nebraska.
11 to 50 staff
Opera America
OPERA America leads and serves the entire opera community, supporting the creation, presentation, and enjoyment of opera. Founded in 1970, OPERA America has a membership that includes over 600 opera companies, educational institutions, affiliated businesses, and other entities. More than staff members, artists, and trustees at these organizations join nearly individual members in empowering us as the national champion for opera. Through national convenings, research, advocacy, granting, thought leadership, and a variety of programs for artists, administrators, educators, trustees, and appreciators, we move opera forward as an industry and an art form. The quarterly Opera America Magazine highlights the progress of the sector and the impact of more than $15 million in strategic grants we have awarded to increase new work, audience engagement, civic practice, business innovation, and inclusivity. The National Opera Center, our custom-built rehearsal and performance facility in New York City, serves as the centralized home for the industry, welcoming visitors each year.
11 to 50 staff
Oregon Ballet Theatre
Oregon Ballet Theatre is committed to sharing our passion for the expressive power of ballet, inspiring an enduring appreciation of dance, and connecting in meaningful ways to our community through excellence in performance, training and educational programs. Located in the South Waterfront in Portland, Oregon, OBT is the largest professional ballet company in the state, employing nearly 200 people and attracting artists from around the globe with our reputation for excellence. The company is rooted in the traditions of classical ballet, with a repertoire that ranges from the great classics to premieres from some of the most exciting choreographic voices in the field today. OBT’s mission is dedicated to the vitality of, and access to, world-class ballet performance and training in our region. Oregon Ballet Theatre seeks to inspire beauty and excellence in the hearts and minds of Oregonians through the creation and preservation of the highest quality classical and contemporary ballet performances. In addition to its 5-show main stage season, OBT trains dancers from 4 years old to 80 years old through the professional and recreational classes at the Oregon Ballet Theatre School. Many students go on to successful professional careers at companies including the Joffrey, the Dutch National Ballet, and within the OBT organization.
51 to 200 staff
Orlando Ballet
As a top 20 professional ballet organization, Orlando Ballet’s mission is to entertain, educate, and enrich through the highest quality of dance to audiences, professionals, and students from around the world. Offering an annual season of full-length ballets, new works, and non-traditional programs at our performance home, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Steinmetz Hall, we include a mix of both classical and contemporary ballet. In addition, our community outreach programs impact tens of thousands of children each year while the Orlando Ballet School, continually ranked Youth America Grand Prix Semi-Finals Outstanding School, serves more than 1,200 students at three locations in and around the city.
51 to 200 staff
Orlando Family Stage
Orlando Family Stage is Central Florida's foremost professional family theatre where audiences of all ages experience the adventure and wonder of watching their favorite stories come to life on stage. With a mission to empower young people to be brave and empathetic by creating quality theatrical experiences, Orlando Family Stage recognizes its obligation to connect students to literature and theatre, and find ways to fill the arts void in local schools and communities – particularly those classified as low-income or underserved. The award-winningYouth Academy provides classes and workshops for children, along with professional development opportunities for classroom teachers. Housed in a three-theatre complex in Loch Haven Park, Orlando Family Stage is also home to the University of Central Florida’s MFA in Theatre for Young Audiences graduate program, training the next generation of theatre for young audiences leaders - the only program of its kind in the Southeast.
51 to 200 staff
Paper Mill Playhouse
PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE, recipient of the 2016 Regional Theatre Tony Award, is a nationally renowned, not-for-profit theater under the direction of Mark S. Hoebee (Producing Artistic Director) and Mike Stotts (Managing Director). A beloved NJ arts institution since 1938, Paper Mill creates and produces groundbreaking new musicals and reimagined classics. Several productions have gone on to Broadway and launched national tours, including Disney’s Newsies, Les Misérables, Honeymoon in Vegas, A Bronx Tale, and Bandstand. The theater is also the home of an award-winning center for musical theater education and artist training, with outreach programs that impact tens of thousands of students each year. As one of the nation’s premier musical theaters, Paper Mill fosters a creative environment to advance the art form, educate students, develop future theater lovers, nurture inclusion, and provide access for all. Paper Mill Playhouse programs are made possible, in part, by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Paper Mill Playhouse is a member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, the Council of Stock Theatres, and the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.
51 to 200 staff
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
A leading Shakespeare festival with an emerging national reputation for excellence, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (PSF) is a professional theatre company on the campus of DeSales University. Founded in 1992, PSF is the only fully professional Equity theatre in the Lehigh Valley and the only theatre of its scope within fifty miles. PSF is the Official Shakespeare Festival of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Each summer, PSF produces a season of Shakespeare and other classics, musical theatre, and children’s theatre. About an hour north of Philadelphia and less than two hours from Manhattan, PSF is summer home to over 150 artists from around the country, including winners and nominees of the Tony, Obie, Emmy, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Jefferson, and Barrymore awards. In the fall, the Festival's premiere education program, the Linny Fowler WillPower Tour, tours a Shakespeare play to students in PA, NJ & DE. Every year patrons attend PSF from 30+ states, totaling over patrons from 50 states and many countries since 1992. PSF is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for not-for-profit professional theatre, and PSF is a also member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Discover Lehigh Valley, and the Lehigh Valley Arts Council.
51 to 200 staff
Pioneer Theatre Company
Salt Lake’s only major regional theatre is located at the top of Broadway (300 South) and 1400 East. A fully professional theatre in-residence at the University of Utah, Pioneer Theatre Company produces a seven-show season, running from September through May. Each season includes a mixture of classics, large-scale musicals and contemporary dramas and comedies. Over the past ten years, PTC has developed a reputation for Broadway-quality productions and has mounted numerous Utah premieres and regional theatre premieres. Notably, Pioneer Theatre Company was the first regional theatre in the country to be granted the rights to produce Les Misérables, the closing musical of the 2006-2007 season. Running for a record 82 sold-out performances, Les Misérables cemented PTC’s reputation as a theatre capable of producing large-scale productions. In fall 2022, Pioneer Theatre Company produced the Broadway-bound musical, Shucked. The world premiere was directed by three time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien and written by the Grammy and Tony Award-winning team of Robert Horn, Shane McAnally, and Brandy Clark. Opening in April 2023, Shucked went on to receive nine Tony Award nominations. This marks the first time (ever) that a Utah-based theatre served as an out-of-town tryout for a Broadway musical.
51 to 200 staff
Pittsburgh Public Theater
Welcome to The Public! The mission of Pittsburgh Public Theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. Pittsburgh Public Theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate and entertain while operating in a fiscally responsible manner. The Public shares its resources with the community through education and engagement initiatives intended for a wide range of people with the goal of expanding and diversifying the audience while enriching the community.
51 to 200 staff
Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater committed to the advancement of bold and visionary playwrights, through the development and production of daring new work and the education of future theatermakers. For over 50 years, the organization has distinguished itself by a steadfast commitment to centering the voice of the playwright. Playwrights Horizons aims to be a home for the exploration of playwriting and an anti-racist center of curiosity, dialogue, and artistic risk.
11 to 50 staff
Roundabout Theatre Company
Founded in 1965, New York’s not-for-profit Roundabout Theatre Company produces a mix of revivals and world premieres in its five theatres on and off Broadway, winning nine Best Revival Tony Awards and debuting such new playwrights as Stephen Karam, Lindsey Ferrentino, Steven Levenson, Joshua Harmon, Ming Peiffer, and Mansa Ra. Its educational initiatives impact students and over teachers annually. MISSION Roundabout celebrates the power of theatre by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present and educating minds for the future. OUR WORK WE PRODUCE familiar and lesser-known plays and musicals with the ability to take artistic risk as only a not-for-profit can. WE DISCOVER talented playwrights and provide them long-term artistic support to contribute to the future of the theatrical canon. WE REDUCE the barriers– financial, physical and cultural– that can inhibit theatergoing. WE COLLABORATE with a diverse team of artists to identify programming for consideration. WE BUILD transformational education experiences that enhance teacher practice, deepen student learning, and ignite the future of young people through career training and placement. WE CAPTURE AND ARCHIVE over five decades of production history as an open resource for artists, scholars, and our community.
51 to 200 staff
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Diverse artistry thrives at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the cultural hub of upstate New York, the Hudson Valley, Vermont, the Berkshires, Connecticut, and nearby Canada. SPAC hosts the New York City Ballet, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center each summer, in an acoustically ideal amphitheatre in the heart of Spa State Park; presents superior chamber music, jazz, rock and pop concerts, opera, and Saratoga Wine & Food Festival; and oversees the National Museum of Dance. We welcome loyal friends and families familiar with SPAC's incredible performing arts program, and encourage newcomers to explore this region's premier cultural centerpiece.
51 to 200 staff
School Of American Ballet
The School of American Ballet, the official training academy of the New York City Ballet, was established in 1934 by legendary choreographer George Balanchine and philanthropist Lincoln Kirstein as the first and most essential step in their quest to create an American classical ballet company. SAB, located at New York City's Lincoln Center, is today the premier ballet academy in the United States, training more students who go on to become professional dancers than any other school. SAB's former students fill the ranks of the New York City Ballet and other leading U.S. and international ballet companies. SAB is the official academy of New York City Ballet.
51 to 200 staff
Seattle Men's Chorus & Seattle Women's Chorus
Making music that makes a difference. The renowned Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus comprise one of the largest community choral organizations in North America and stand out as the largest LGBTQ-identified men’s and women’s choruses in the world. We're among the Pacific Northwest’s largest, most vibrant and successful music organizations, performing in Seattle’s most prestigious venues for an annual audience of more than patrons. Flying House Productions is the not-for-profit organization that governs and manages our Choruses. Our Vision A more harmonious world that celebrates the unique identities and talents of all people. Our Mission Our voices transform society through innovative and entertaining programs that build community, illuminate the experiences of LGBTQ people and their allies, expand inclusion, and inspire justice.
1 to 10 staff
Seattle Theatre Group
Seattle Theatre Group® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization. Mission: To create enriching experiences in the arts, engage diverse communities, and steward historic theatres. Vision: STG is the people’s theatre. All are welcomed and represented. Values Statement: We value Art: Art connects us. It allows us to explore all aspects of our humanity, to debate, to celebrate and to grow. We value Community: It is our role to advocate for greater participation in the arts, reduce barriers, and include diverse People, Cultures and Perspectives on our stages, in our audiences and within our staff, volunteers and board. We value Service: We are committed to caring relationships with patrons, partners, artists and staff. We value Learning for All: We deepen connection to art when we inspire the greater community through education, performance opportunities and healing. We value our Team: We believe in the power of passionate people who care for our mission and each other. We value Stewardship: We make the best use of our resources, effectively and sustainably serve our mission, and preserve our assets. STG presents an average of 700 events annually at The Paramount, The Moore, and The Neptune Theatres as well as at venues throughout the region. Broadway productions, concerts, dance, theatre, lectures, education, community, film, and other enrichment programs can be found in our venues. A multitude of artists and performers, partner organizations, donors and foundations, volunteers, and most of all – our patrons, make it possible for STG's mission to be fulfilled.
501 to 1000 staff
Shakespeare & Company
The mission of Shakespeare & Company is to deliver a sustainable and vital program of Performance, Training, and Education, integrated for the deepened experience of the artists, the audience, the Company, and the community. We embrace the core values of Shakespeare’s work: collaboration, commitment to language, visceral experience, and classical ideals, expressed with physical prowess and an embodied contemporary voice.
51 to 200 staff
Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre is a Tony Award®-winning, non-profit professional theater company with a mission to produce contemporary musicals and plays, reinvent classic musicals, develop new work, and reach its community through engaging educational and outreach opportunities.
51 to 200 staff
Step Afrika
Step Afrika! is the first professional company in the world dedicated to the tradition of stepping. Founded in December 1994, the company is critically-acclaimed for its efforts to promote an understanding of and appreciation for stepping and the dance tradition's use as an educational tool for young people worldwide. Step Afrika! reaches tens of thousands of Americans each year and has performed on many stages in North & South America, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.
11 to 50 staff
Studio Theatre
Our Mission Studio Theatre is dedicated to producing the best in contemporary theatre. Our restless, innovative spirit generates an uncommonly rich and diverse body of work, encompassing provocative new writing from around the world, unique special events, and inventive stagings of contemporary classics. Devoted above all to artistic excellence, Studio Theatre strives to present audiences with extraordinary writing, sophisticated design, and stunning performance. Our commitment to connecting actors and audience is built into the very architecture of our building, where none of our four performance spaces seats more than 225 patrons. No theatre of comparable budget size operates such exclusively intimate spaces. Studio Theatre is also committed to nurturing future generations of theatre professionals. Toward this end, we offer rigorous theatre training for both adults and young people, provide year-long apprenticeships for early-career arts leaders, and involve emerging talent in the creation of our work. We believe in accessibility and inclusion, and open our doors to students and audiences across the region through a wide variety of outreach programs. A premiere cultural organization in Washington DC, Studio Theatre is proud to make a vital contribution to our neighborhood and city.
51 to 200 staff
Superblue
At Superblue, we believe that art and creativity have the power to change how people understand the world we live in. So we’ve teamed up with innovative artists who think the same. Artists who create experiential artworks that are as meaningful as they are breathtaking. Who push boundaries of what art can be, where it can be shown and how it can be understood. And who invite audiences to participate in their extraordinary work to share in the experience of it together. Superblue is an initiative designed to champion artists whose ideas are best expressed through large-scale immersive installations that are audacious, evocative and impactful. Superblue Miami is now open, more locations will be announced soon. Welcome to Superblue.
11 to 50 staff
