During its first 100 years, Actors' Equity Association — which celebrated its centennial on May 26 — battled the forces of segregation, bigotry, blacklisting, economic depression, disease and war. It struggled to defend its members' rights in the expanded professional fields of Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway and regional theatre. What will the union's next 100 years bring? *
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM on June 14, 2013