Tuesday, November 3, 2015
“Theatre isn’t just about us. It’s about serving the community. We are here to serve.” ~John Sloan The room is quiet. Empty. Just myself and Co-Artistic Directors…
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HowlRound: Award winning playwright and electrical engineer, Steve Lyons, thinks he knows what makes a good theater review. Think he has it right?
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A.R. Gurney, the prolific playwright of such titles as Sylvia, The Dining Room, and, of course, Love Letters, turns 85 today. We celebrate the day with these two insightful clips from 2000…
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Ali Stroker has been spotlighted in several articles recently. Here are a few video profiles of her, the first actor in a wheelchair to perform on Broadway:
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SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:49PMStage Raw: These are tumultuous days for the theater community in Los Angeles, but one thing is for sure: There has never been a better time for the community to draw together for the purpos…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:49PMLos Angeles (October 30, 2015) – Actors’ Equity has agreed to sit down and meet with the plaintiffs of a recent lawsuit concerning the Union’s actions regarding how it repl…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 12:43AMFriday, October 30, 2015
@ThisStage: The rich Los Angeles Theater Scene continues to expand. Here are 10 companies nominated for the prestigious Ovation awards for the first time. And many of the usual suspect…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:36AMThursday, October 29, 2015
Playbill: Emerson College’s faculty voted Oct. 27 to oppose plans to turn Boston’s vintage Colonial Theatre, a theatre, which was built in 1900, predating all existing Broadway…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:34PMWednesday, October 28, 2015
American Theatre: 80 writers protest – in writing, of course – the NY Times decision to cut designer and stage manager credits from play reviews. Perhaps space is at a premium in a…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:25AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
HowlRound: Cultural critic Eli Keel defends the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s decision to translate Shakespeare into contemporary English: …why would you discourage passing on …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:21PMMonday, October 26, 2015
@ThisStage: Vanessa and French Stewart will be hosting the 2015 Ovation Awards on November 9, 2015. They also penned a featured piece this month in Footlights. More information about t…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:14PMI’m no lawyer, but here’s my quick take on the lawsuit in more or less plain English. Who is being sued? AEA and Mary McColl, sometimes together, sometimes separately. Who is suing? Eigh…
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A story about how the Bard moves and inspires those who live outside the mainstream of society. More information about this program at the Marin Shakespeare Company website.
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Bitter Gertrude: A take on the lawsuit that Actors’ Equity members had to bring on their own Union from the Bay Area. It all comes down to funding. Will this latest from Equity dri…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:46PMFriday, October 23, 2015
The Washington Post: Ari Roth, fired 10 months ago as Theater J’s artistic director, is already making his next entrance on the D.C. scene as the founder of the Mosaic Theater Company of D…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:25PMOPB Video – This one-hour episode explores the origins and the evolution of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival – how one man’s vision for a holiday event grew to become the economic m…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:25PMWednesday, October 21, 2015
American Theatre Magazine: It’s Back to the Future day, when Doc Brown and Marty (and Marty’s girlfriend, Jennifer) come in from 1985. The film trilogy has inspired social comm…
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The November 2015 issue of American Theatre Magazine includes a special section covering theater artists with disabilities and associated topics: Deaf and disabled theatre artists have bee…
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Actors’ Equity Association Statement on the Minimum Wage Lawsuit Actors’ Equity Association is a labor union that exists primarily to advocate for better wages and working condit…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:31PMPlaybill.com: Lee Pelton, president of the Emerson College in Boston, used an Oct. 18 column in the Boston Globe to defend plans to repurpose the historic Colonial Theatre, Boston’s ol…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 12:37PMSunday, October 18, 2015
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SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:46AMBREAKING: LOS ANGELES (Oct. 17, 2015) — Actors and other members of the Los Angeles theatrical community (Ed Asner, Tom Bower, Gregg Daniel, John Flynn, Maria Gobetti, Gary Grossman, Ed Ha…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:46AMSaturday, October 17, 2015
On the centennial anniversary of Arthur Miller’s birth, some insights on the state of American Theater in this 1992 Charlie Rose interview clip:
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SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:51PMLA Times: Looking back on 10 years in Los Angeles, LA Times’ chief theater critic, Charles McNulty, gives his observations on what is troubling about theater criticism in the digital…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:51PMFriday, October 16, 2015
The Guardian: Theatre directors and writers’ estates do not always see eye to eye. As a new generation seeks to reinterpret Arthur Miller’s work, we lift the lid on the scandals, bans …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:24PMThursday, October 15, 2015
Bloomberg Business: The hottest Broadway show not on any stage is a free, five-minute performance running two to three times a week about two hours before curtain on the sidewalk outside the…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:14PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
Can’t get to the Barbican in London to catch Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet? Catch a delayed simulcast in Southern California tomorrow night instead! Thursday’s simulcast is s…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:00PMBuzzFeed: Guess the Shakespeare plays from these emojis and make the Bard proud! – http://bzfd.it/1GHtohF
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SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:00PMAMERICAN THEATRE: “Though our ‘Play on!’ commissioning project has met with some vocal disapproval, the work of translating Shakespeare is grounded in the Oregon Shakespear…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:49PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Lenny Letters: “It’s hard for me to speak about my experience as a working woman because I can safely say my problems aren’t exactly relatable. When the Sony hack happened and I fo…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:12PMMonday, October 12, 2015
Bitter Lemons: Since December last, when Actors’s Equity Association announced its sweeping new plan for the small theaters of Los Angeles to pay their actors minimum wage, the Theat…
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