GIVE A KID A SEAT TO THEIR FIRST BROADWAY SHOW!
Through innovative initiatives and a robust partnership with Dallas ISD, Broadway Dallas reaches more than 50,000 people through education and community programs. By giving to Broadway Dallas, you are helping to build a better, greater Dallas through the performing arts.
Specifically, this year your gift to North Texas Giving Day will support Broadway Dallas' Give A Kid A Seat campaign. Through our Give A Kid A Seat campaign, each year, Broadway Dallas provides thousands of promise-filled youth from underserved communities in North Texas free and subsidized tickets, to attend Broadway shows. As a presenting organization, Broadway Dallas must purchase each ticket distributed from the producers of the Broadway shows and there is more community need than Broadway Dallas' current budget can support. Through your gift to North Texas Giving Day, you will be providing access to these kids and helping Broadway Dallas build a better, greater Dallas through the performing arts.
Kids deserve a future that they view as limitless. During these turbulent times, young people are balancing the demands of growing up with the fallout from COVID and contentious debates surrounding racial inequalities, climate change, gun violence and immigration. This means we need performing arts more than ever because theater can connect different cultures, show new viewpoints, illuminate imaginations, and provide an outlet to experience and process complex emotions. Over the course of just one performance, young audiences experience joy, wonder, compassion, empathy, hope, surprise, and excitement. Give A Kid A Seat is your opportunity to give a kid an adventure, a new perspective, and a place to dream.
GIVE A KID A SEAT TODAY!
CLICK HERE TO GIVE THE GIFT OF BROADWAY
About Broadway Dallas
Your gift provides critical funding to Broadway Dallas to continue its proud 80-year legacy of presenting and promoting excellence in live musical theater at historic Fair Park. In addition to onstage performances, your donation supports Broadway Dallas’s multi-generational, education and community outreach initiatives that serve more than 50,000 people in North Texas. Specifically, through your philanthropy:
Broadway Dallas is the preeminent nonprofit presenter of Broadway theater, musicals, and concerts in North Texas.
Broadway Dallas presents and promotes excellence in live musical theater with year-round performances for diverse audiences of all ages, impacting the lives of children and families through community outreach and education and enriching the cultural landscape of Dallas/Fort Worth, North Texas and the Southwest Region.
BROADWAY DALLAS IS ON A JOURNEY TO BECOME A FULLY INCLUSIVE, MULTICULTURAL, ANTI-RACIST ORGANIZATION.
WE WILL HEAR THE TRUTH AND UNDERSTAND THE HARM CAUSED BY RACIST SYSTEMS.
WE WILL SHARE THESE TRUTHS TO DRIVE TRANSFORMATION IN OUR ORGANIZATION AND IN THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE.
Broadway Dallas adopted a new Strategic Plan in 2017 that included a commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Access and in 2021 we became aware of an opportunity to further inform and deepen our commitment. We embarked on a journey, with the guidance of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation* (DTRHT) who provided us with a framework to learn and internalize the truth of how racist systems and structures developed and how they continue to cause harm in communities and within our company for all people and disproportionately to those who identify as BIPOC. Broadway Dallas will share these truths with our staff, board and other constituents and together use this knowledge to drive change of systems that uphold a hierarchy of human value, allow race to impact a person’s agency or position and limit opportunities for people to become part of the Broadway Dallas family.
Broadway Dallas developed initial priorities for change with an aim to institutionalize Racial Equity as part of Broadway Dallas’s organizational culture, enable more equitable processes for our staff, board and patrons and set policy priorities, metrics, and accountability. These priorities became the building blocks to support modifying organization roles and power structures in vital business activities such as strategic planning and budgeting, redesigning recruiting to identify BIPOC candidates, altering hiring practices to create a more diverse staff, identifying, and dismantling dehumanizing systems and building a culture of belonging.
Broadway Dallas understands that a journey to become an anti-racist organization requires a steady and ongoing commitment to change by discovering and hearing truth, understanding harm caused by racist systems and challenging or dismantling them. We recognize that this commitment is not simply a department of Broadway Dallas or a project to be added on when convenient, but rather a lens that we must learn to apply to everything we do. Broadway Dallas’s mission to bring the best of Broadway to North Texas and to deliver the spirit of Broadway into all corners of our community, in classrooms and community centers throughout the region, can only be accomplished if Broadway Dallas also transforms to become a fully inclusive, multicultural, anti-racist organization.
Our journey has just begun. Please check back here as we share our progress.
*The W.K. Kellogg Foundation-led Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) enterprise is a multi-year, national and community-based effort to engage communities, organizations, and individuals from multiple sectors across the United States in racial healing and addressing present-day inequities linked to historic and contemporary beliefs in a hierarchy of human value.
Organization name
Broadway Dallas
other names
Dallas Summer Musicals
Causes
Arts & Humanities
Operating Budget
$3,000,000 - $9,999,999
Counties Served
Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latinx, Native American
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
909 1st Ave