Industry Pro Newsletter: Springsteen Returns to Broadway, New Results from UK Pilot Study
It was a big week in New York theatre as Bruce Springsteen opened a Broadway show for the first time in 15 months to a fully vaccinated crowd. While theatre has continued in various forms throughout the pandemic, seeing the return of a show to one of the major commercial centers of the industry was an important step from an economic and emotional standpoint.
AKA NYC Announces Next Project For The 500 Hours Black Producer Initiative
Chambers has been chosen as the next recipient of the 500 Hours Black Producer Initiative. This groundbreaking program donates 500 agency hours of creative, strategic, and marketing work to emerging, independent Black producers to help build the vital tools needed to bring their vision to life.
AKA NYC Announces Inaugural Projects For The Black Producer 500 Hours Initiative
AKA NYC has announced that Producers Blair Russell, Dale A. Mott, and Nolan Williams, Jr. have been chosen as the inaugural recipients of the newly formed Black Producer 500 Hours Initiative. The goal is to help open doors for new, diverse, and necessary storytellers on Broadway stages and in arts and performance spaces across the country.
AKA NYC Will Launch Initiative to Help Emerging Black Producers
There is work to do on Broadway and AKA NYC knows it. The award-winning, entertainment advertising agency has announced the donation of 500 hours of creative, strategic, and marketing work to emerging, independent Black producers to help build the vital tools needed to bring their vision to life.