From Diep Tran, writing for American Theatre:
Sometimes all you need is a push. At least that’s the thinking behind the 51% Preparedness Plan that was released last week. East West Players artistic director Tim Dang wrote the plan, which calls on Southern California theatres to diversify their staff and programming.
“We’re in Southern California, we prepare for earthquakes. Are we preparing for the demographic shift that is going to happen in 2042?” posits Dang. “We should prepare now, for theatre.”
But why 2042? That’s the date, in projections by the Census Bureau, that the minority population in the United States will reach 54 percent, outnumbering non-Hispanic whites. So what does that mean for theatre?