Thursday, June 23, 2016
PBS has set its fall primetime schedule, including premieres for a special on the Tony Award-winning musical “Hamilton,” coverage of the 2016 presidential election and the premie…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:33PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
Universal Cable Productions has signed the Upright Citizens Brigade to a first-look production deal. The agreement is the first such for the comedy troupe founded by in 1990 by Amy Poehler, …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:40PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
Comedian Martin Short and “Dancing With the Stars” veteran Derek Hough have been cast in NBC’s live version of the musical “Hairspray.” More to come …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:26PMMonday, March 21, 2016
Elisabeth Moss is returning for a second season of “Top of the Lake” for SundanceTV and BBC Two. The “Mad Men” alum will be joined in Season 2 by new cast member Gwen…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:22PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Changes to the Screen Actors Guild health plan have been announced, and more are on the way. In an online notice this week, the trustees of the SAG health plan announced that they intend to…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMKen Orsatti, who served as national executive director of the Screen Actors Guild for almost two decades, passed away Aug. 31 at West Hills Hospital in West Hills, Calif. He was 78 years old…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMChanges to the Screen Actors Guild health plan have been announced, and more are on the way. In an online notice this week, the trustees of the SAG health plan announced that they intend to …
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMOn Sept. 23, the Screen Actors Guild will announce the results of its national board elections. In all likelihood, the earth will not move, and the heavens will probably refrain from partin…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMBack Stage obtained the following e-mail exchange between Screen Actors Guild's 1st vice president Anne-Marie Johnson and national board of directors candidate Ned Vaughn.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIn 2008, SAG and AFTRA parted ways in one of the more contentious rounds of union negotiations in recent Hollywood history. This time, they're kicking things off with a party.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIn a SAG election that was widely considered a referendum on merger with the AFTRA, proponents of that idea emerged with a clear mandate.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe American Theatre Wing announced today the recipients of its 2010 National Theatre Company Grants.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMProducers of "The Deep Throat Sex Scandal" announced that the show has been forced to close at the NYC's 45 Bleecker Street Theatre due to an apparent dispute between the facility and its…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMMary McColl has been named the new executive director of Actors' Equity Association.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMActor Simon Jones has withdrawn from the Actors Company Theatre's upcoming Off-Broadway production of "The Memorandum," the company announced today.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM"The Wife," a new play by Tommy Smith, will premiere Off-Off-Broadway next month at the Gallery at Access Theater. Previews will begin Dec. 2, with opening night scheduled for Dec. 5. The pr…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM"In the Heights," the 2008 Tony Award winner for best musical, will close Jan. 9, producers announced today. Lin-Manuel Miranda, the show's creator and also its original star, will return to…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMActor and comedian Dane Cook will make his Broadway debut in an upcoming production of writer Neil LaBute's play "Fat Pig."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM"Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps" will end its Off-Broadway run Jan. 16, producers announced today.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMOSHA, Actors' Equity, and the NYS Dept. of Labor have met with the 'Spider-Man' company today to discuss additional safety protocols, said a spokesman for the show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMAt a public hearing in New York City, production and labor representatives, agents, managers, and parents took turns bashing the Labor Department for a process they thought endangers New Yor…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe New York State Department of Labor will make "significant changes" to a controversial set of proposed regulations governing child performers, according to a department spokesperson.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe Ohio Theatre has found a new—and hopefully permanent—home. The new space will be dubbed Ohio West.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMAFTRA has put off the continuation of talks with Teamsters Local 399. The Teamsters cover 11 AFTRA-employed business representatives who have been working without a contract since Sept. 5.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMWednesday, December 28, 2011
From building a future for the soap opera to preparing for union merger, the biggest stories of 2011 were about paving the way for 2012 (and beyond).
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:59AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Last month, TCG released its most recent annual "Theatre Facts" report, which examines the fiscal health of the professional nonprofit theater sector in the U.S. at the end of 2010.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:45AMWednesday, November 9, 2011
Mariska Hargitay is just one of many actors giving back—both with their dollars and with their time—to the places where they studied the craft.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:57AMTuesday, November 8, 2011
Actors' Equity Association has named longtime employee Christine Provost its new Central Regional director/assistant executive director.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:45AMSunday, July 24, 2011
The New York actor voices support for merger, then is appointed to a third two-year term.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:49AMThursday, June 23, 2011
Duncan Stewart, director of casting at the National Artists Management Co., has partnered with colleague Benton Whitley to form a new casting office, Duncan Stewart and Co., located in New…
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:23AMThursday, June 9, 2011
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society has filed an arbitration claim against the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" on behalf of the Broadway musical's former director, …
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:47AM 
