Monday, August 20, 2018
Dear Members and Friends,
These are exciting times for LA STAGE Alliance. Call it a season of silver linings.
As you may have heard, in June our landlord raised our rent 50% on short n…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:33AMMonday, April 9, 2018
By Steven Leigh Morris
On Mondays April 16 and April 23, from 7-10 p.m., LA STAGE Alliance is hosting community meet-ups aimed to help guide those interested in participating in funded oppo…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:00PMFriday, March 2, 2018
written by Steven Leigh Morris
Summary
This report is on Phase I of the “Sustaining the Los Angeles Theater Community” program, a three-year, three-phase project conceived by The Ah…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:50AMThursday, January 11, 2018
By Steven Leigh Morris
But soon we must rise, O my heart, we must wander again
Into the war of the world and the strife of the throng;
Let us rise, O my heart, let us gather the dream…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:57PMThursday, August 10, 2017
by Steven Leigh Morris
A Modest Proposal
In May of this year, The Ahmanson Foundation approached LA STAGE Alliance and NPO Solutions with an idea to help address and redress the sundry f…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:41PMTuesday, August 8, 2017
By Steven Leigh Morris
The No-Nonsense Arts Administrator
A colleague had cautioned me that punctuality is a standard Laura Zucker holds in high regard, and that tardiness aggravates her…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:47PMTuesday, July 18, 2017
by Steven Leigh Morris
As part of its regional conference, The Dramatists Guild held a Town Hall event on Saturday night at the Veterans’ Memorial Building in Culver City. The discussion …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:12PMThursday, June 22, 2017
By Steven Leigh Morris
Republican Karen Handel beat Democrat Jon Ossoff by four points in Georgia’s special election on Tuesday, in that very Red State’s 6th Congressional District (a d…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:12PMMonday, June 12, 2017
By Steven Leigh Morris
Marketing Discontents
This is how the email started:
“Jenna on behalf of Facebook here with a timely story that I think might be up your alley:
Three we…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:37PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Facts + + +
, Gertude, we really do live in a post-fact era. And Washington, D.C. may be Ground Zero — the target for wha…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:48PMThursday, January 26, 2017
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
LA STAGE Alliance Ovations Awards on January 17 at the Ahmanson Theatre, hosted by actor, professor, and transgender activist Alexandra Billings, was as much a cel…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:48PMTuesday, December 13, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
It’s been a terrible year, by every standard that snowflakes hold dear.
You don’t have to live in the Atlantic northeast or in the mountains of California to…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:33PMFriday, November 18, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Wednesday evening, LA STAGE Alliance and the Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles hosted an LA STAGE Talk (presented in partnership with California Lawyers f…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:42PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
so easy to draw comparisons between our 21st century incarnation of the L.A. theater Equity Waiver Wars and this dumpster fire of a national election that I’ll t…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:24PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
This is Part II of two previously unpublished 2011 interviews with Gordon Davidson (the founding artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum, who died two weeks ago at …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:57PMWednesday, October 5, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
2011, Gordon Davidson, who died last week at the age of 83, was six years into his retirement from his role as Founding Artisitic Director of the Mark Taper Forum,…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:34PMWednesday, September 7, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
entrancing, outdoor production of The Tempest just closed this summer’s al fresco Shakespeare festival in Griffith Park, presented by Independent Shakespeare Co.…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:36PMTuesday, July 26, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
July 21, 2016, Actors’ Equity Association, the national stage actors/stage managers’ union, filed a Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit Ed Asner, et al v. AEA, in the …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:24PMWednesday, July 6, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
PART I:
The National Stage Union is Sued (Yet Again) by Its Own Members
the showdown between the New York-based actors/stage managers union, Actors’ Equity A…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:31PMMonday, June 13, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
June 8, the Chicago Reader published an exposé about a decades-old pattern of actor abuse at one highly regarded non-Equity Chicago company, Profiles Theatre. The…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:29PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
fuel to the long-simmering fire over whether actors working under the 99-Seat Theater Plan are “volunteers,” “independent contractors” or “employees,” …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:03PMMonday, May 16, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
months ago, the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board in Northern California supported an administrative law judge and struck down a sweeping decision b…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:07PMMonday, May 2, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
isn’t bad enough that California currently ranks 46th in the nation for arts funding, now the State’s Employment Development Department (EDD) is engaged in ran…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:39PMTuesday, March 29, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
different community forums on the future of L.A. theater, some designs LA STAGE Alliance has concocted, various challenges faced by the local stage community, and …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:18PMTuesday, March 22, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Monday, we received the dismaying news that the 22-year-old Cabrillo Music Theatre (which operates out of the 1,800 seat Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza) is suspend…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:38PMMonday, March 14, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
This is the first installment of a two-part column.
STAGE Alliance held six intimate community forums at six different locations across the region over the past …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:12PMThursday, February 18, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Azadeh Ahmadibaseri and her husband, Mohammad (Mo) Faraji, are both in their early 30s, and, at the time we met, were celebrating their 43rd day of living in the U…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:32PMMonday, January 11, 2016
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Before I was hired at the beginning of December by LA STAGE Alliance to run the joint, I recall hearing in the community a fairly common question: So what does LA STA…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:04PMMonday, December 7, 2015
"That damage was mitigated somewhat when the city’s rent stabilization program — a partnership of the city, the county and the L.A. Tourism Bureau — passed by City Council vote in 201…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:49PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
last week’s Stage Raw symposium on the economics of arts coverage, KCRW commentator Anthony Byrnes made a painfully sharp point that we, as a theater community, …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:39PMMonday, October 5, 2015
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
How do we talk about offensive racial stereotypes without smarming each other with accusations of bigotry — blatant or latent?
This isn’t a “diversity” dis…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:18PM 
