As the intimate theatre scene in Los Angeles is looking to stabilize itself, when in December Actors Equity Association, the national union for stage actors and stage managers, implemented a…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:06PMLast week New Musicals Inc. filed a charge against Actors Equity Association through the National Labor Relations Board. The charge centers upon unfair business practices, accusing AEA of …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:12PMSeldom does a day go by that someone doesn’t ask me, “Are there any good plays going on right now? What should I go see?” I guess being the publisher of a theatre magazine supposedly g…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:36PMThe Road Theatre just opened a new show at their Lankershim location – The Lyons by Nicky Silver. This play Which originally opened off Broadway at The Vinyard Theatre in 2011. Th…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:05PMThe Nate Holden Performing Arts Center on Washington Blvd in Los Angeles is now presenting a revival of Five Guys Named Moe, by Clarke Peters, and starring Obba Babatundé. The premise of t…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:36PMBlack Theatre Matters: A Dialogue, took place on a Monday February 27th, at the Offices of Actors’ Equity Association in North Hollywood. An eminent group of African American artists: Robe…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:12AMLast December, Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) imposed a new plan regarding the use of its members for productions in intimate theatres in Los Angeles County. A two-year battle between AE…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:42PMThe seats are about to be filled. Antaeus Theatre Company is ready to occupy their new home: the Kiki and David Gindler Performing Arts Center located at 110 E. Broadway in Glendale. John Sl…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:54PMRecently, I had the privilege to see a performance of Zoot Suit, the revival at the Mark Taper Forum. While I often speak of theatre as an important tool of cultural consciousness, I also lo…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 12:12AMA pinch of words, a drop of insight, a shadow of a doubt, a dust of vision, lots of maybes, countless hopes and endless sentiments. You have the ethereal mist that makes up the alchemy of th…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:18PMThis open letter to the L.A. Theater Community first appeared on Facebook and is reprinted here with permission: Dear Colleagues, Actors Equity has chosen to put us on the public “Do N…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:33PMWalking into Walden House off of McArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles, can be a slightly unnerving moment. It’s a discomforting environment, lots of tough looking guys milling about, ta…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:24PMI had actually considered leaving this column blank. For many, that is the outlook for theatre in Los Angeles this year. As of December 15th, there are at least 26 theaters that will no lo…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:36AMFor those of you unfamiliar with my story, there were portions of my life that, let me put this delicately, were a bit seedy. I spent a good number of years looking for easier and softer way…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:24AMActress and writer Vanessa Stewart is well-known in the Los Angeles theater community and to Footlights readers. With her husband, French, she is a popular host of LA theater award ceremon…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 11:54PMPRESS RELEASE From Lawsuit Plaintiffs LOS ANGELES (Dec. 9. 2016) — In response to a court decision on Thursday, Dec. 8 dismissing their lawsuit against Actors’ Equity Association, the Pl…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:18PMI grew up in Dearborn Michigan. For those of you unaware, Dearborn is the home of Ford Motor Company and is immediately adjacent to the City of Detroit. I mention this because there is som…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:12AMThe Los Angeles Theatre Community is facing an existential crisis. After decades of struggle, and a tenuous thirty-year relationship with Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the union fo…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:18AMFootlights received this open letter to the entire Actors’ Equity membership from actor and Equity member Leo Marks. In it, he references an upcoming Equity meeting on November 7th, 2016…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:36PMFootlights received this letter from actor and Actors’ Equity member Leo Marks. In it, he references an upcoming Equity meeting on September 12, 2016: For those of you wondering wh…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:16AMFootlights has received this letter from the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Actor’s Equity. It is their response to the announcements Equity made on June 28th, 2016 regarding its en…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:04AMThis letter is in response to the statement made by Actors’ Equity concerning the 99-Seat Plan on June 28, 2016: My Dear AEA Councilors: Yes, I have indeed “become aware” of all of…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 12:42AMFootLights is proud to be the premiere print magazine for theatre in Los Angeles. We serve more theatres and provide more information about theatre than anyone. While that has always been ou…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:10AMDo you hear the faint sound of trumpets blaring an announcement of something about to happen? Do you feel the tremor of excitement as a whirlwind of activity is beginning to transform Hollyw…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 11:32AMFor ten years, FootLights has been trumpeting the merits of Los Angeles Intimate Theatre. Innovative work, intimate, powerful, the vision of the new American Theatre….and the value of thea…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:31PMTh direction of American theatre is changing. Not just hip-hop, but actor created productions, that share profits with the participants. As reported in American Theatre NEW YORK CITY: The P…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:14PMThe intimate theatre community is a community of artists. We believe artists should be paid. We share that common goal with Equity. We also believe Equity’s attempt to radically alter inti…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:20AMI just spent about a year of researching 99-Seat productions that moved to contracts. And here’s what I found (with help from the Los Angeles Theater Community): At least 127 productions t…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:52AM“And the other is that – and I think this is one of the things that guided the Council – the idea that a mid-sized theater could open at this point, or even a smallish theater, could o…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:06PMWe thank Dakin Matthews, Steven Leigh Morris and many others for their eloquent, considered responses to Kate Shindle’s recent statements during her interview on The Producer’s Perspecti…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:55PMActors’ Equity Association, the labor union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States, is getting ready for its annual elections. Out of fifty thousand members, the ho…
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