True Colors Theatre Company “Joy and Pain”
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his Fall, Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company begins its exploration of the Black experience and the inextricable link of joy and pain for its Joy and Pain season. This season’s banner symbolizes the complexities and challenges the Black community faces today, while serving as a beacon, filled with rich color and diversity, to remind us all of the spectacular beauty of the Black community. True Colors dedicates this year to sharing Black stories, uncovering new Black truths, and reaffirming the value, grace, and excellence of Black lives. Like many other arts and cultural organizations during this unusual time, True Colors is adapting and finding ways to stay connected with its devoted audience, while offering new avenues for new audiences to engage with it. True Colors is providing virtual offerings, including a weekly podcast hosted by Artistic Director Jamil Jude, and a #RealResponses campaign that amplifies artists’ work in response to the Black Lives Matter Movement.
True Colors is continuing its popular Community Conversations series, which presents interactive discussions with preeminent thought leaders and artists in a virtual setting. The series will begin with Out of the Shadows: Access to the Arts for Southern Black LGBTQ, presented in partnership with The Counter Narrative Project. The conversation will focus on barriers to the arts that many Black, LGBTQ artists continue to face in today’s American South, as well as the bold and brave stories of overcoming these obstacles. This panel discussion will feature a number of distinguished Black, LGBTQ voices and will be available on True Colors’ website. Next up in the Community Conversations series is Black Branding: The Fight for Dignified Representation, in October. Other topics later in the season include Black Theatre and the Black Lives Matter Movement, among others. For the full line-up, subscribe to our newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/truecolorstheatre/signup.
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