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Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe first Actors’ Equity diversity and inclusion report since 2017 finds “modest improvement” in the hiring of actors and stage managers of color in the last three years, but describes the slight shift as “extremely gradual, inconsistent and not enough to change longtime problems in the industry.”In fact, the increased representation of people of color in the nation’s theater industry can be attributed solely to multiple productions of Hamilton, the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical that casts non-white actors as the nation’s Founding Fathers.In addition, women, the report found, continue to suffer from a gender wage gap, and trans, non-binary or gender-nonconforming Equity members usually earn less than

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe producer and creators of Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen has donated $100,000 to organizations fighting racism in the theater industry, including $50,000 to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition to sponsor a 2021 continuation of the virtual forums conducted this week.In a statement released on social media, the Hansen team – producer Stacey Mindich, director Michael Greif, book writer Steven Levenson and composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul – wrote, in part, “We have spent the last several days listening to the Black members of our companies, our community, our country, and the world, as they share with us their pain, their suffering, and their heartbreak….Like so many companies and organizations large