Tuesday, September 8, 2015
LA Times: The Elephant Theatre Co. in Hollywood has ceased operations and its members are considering their options following the recent sale of the company’s longtime home on Santa Mo…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:00PMFriday, September 4, 2015
HuffPost: The gender gap pervades every industry and measurable statistic of modern life, except maybe roundups of gynecology patients. The theater is one of our worst examples. While festiv…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:02PMThursday, September 3, 2015
LAist: The vitality and fun of Los Angeles’s theater scene should not be a well-kept secret. L.A. is home to dozens of excellent theater organizations and companies offering great produc…
SOURCE: Footlights at 10:40PMStage Raw: Last week, members of the Pro-99 movement, whose current contact person is Lisa Glass, released their long-awaited congratulatory letter to newly elected AEA President Kate Shin…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:57PMTuesday, September 1, 2015
Within 15 minutes of Celebration Theatre announcing the location of its new home, the Lex Theatre at Lexington Ave & McCadden, Hollywood Theatre Row, artistic director Michael Shepperd w…
SOURCE: Footlights at 09:27AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
L.A. Times: Fountain Theatre co-founder and co-artistic director, Stephen Sachs recalls a quarter-century of productions on one of L.A.’s most vital intimate theaters from Deborah Lawl…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:46PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
Playbill.com: Oh No She Didn’t! There are many kinds of actor nightmares, but this looks like a new one. An intoxicated audience member climbed onto the stage of the Signature Theatre …
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:33AMFriday, August 14, 2015
Stage Raw: Can Actors’ Equity Association new president Kate Shindle save her union by setting the factual record straight to the rank-and-file membership from Los Angeles to New York…
SOURCE: Footlights at 01:55PMFriday, August 7, 2015
Playbill.com: “Arrogant” and “cowardly” were words used by Doug Wright, president of the Dramatists Guild, to describe guidelines posted by the Words Players Theatre …
SOURCE: Footlights at 11:44PMTuesday, August 4, 2015
LA Times: L.A. small theater hit “Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara” is back on its feet after a six-year interruption and is headed for the Geffen Playhouse and Laguna Playh…
SOURCE: Footlights at 10:34PMIconic L.A. architects Neutra and Schindler reunite in a site-specific play, ‘The Princes of Kings Road,’ at the Neutra Institute and Museum of Silverlake. In 1953, iconic L.A. architec…
SOURCE: Footlights at 10:34PMMonday, August 3, 2015
NPR: Bye Bye Birdie, Our Town and Beauty and the Beast have all spent time at the top of Dramatics’ high school theater rankings. There’s just something about the high school s…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:07PMThursday, July 30, 2015
HowlRound: Jonathan Mandell on the shifting definitions of “amateur”, “professional theatre” and “theatre professional.” “Given the economic reali…
SOURCE: Footlights at 08:31PML.A. Weekly: “We haven’t been treated fairly, and everybody knows it, says actress Maria Gobetti. She’s objecting to the elimination of L.A.’s 99-Seat Theate plan by Actor…
SOURCE: Footlights at 08:31PMStage Raw: There are hundreds of theaters, unknown even in their own back yards. You’d think in an age where “Google” has become a verb, no information could remain hidden. Kevin Delin…
SOURCE: Footlights at 08:31PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
THE STAGE: Phil Willmott writes why a new generation of directors is too scared to make theatre – “I’ve had people contacting me in tears for advice after being bullied by th…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:54PMMonday, July 20, 2015
AMERICAN THEATRE: Why do we spell it ‘theatre’? As with many questions of language, there’s a simple answer but not a ‘right’ one. http://bit.ly/1Jt3EGd
The…
SOURCE: Footlights at 09:52PMFriday, July 17, 2015
AMERICAN THEATRE: Every month, American Theatre wants YOUR input. We post up a new cartoon and you, readers, are invited to write a caption to it. This month caption this image and win a …
SOURCE: Footlights at 08:13PMThursday, July 16, 2015
BBC News: A group of actors lose an employment tribunal case after claiming they should be paid the minimum wage for appearing in a fringe theatre play. http://bbc.in/1KaIW3q
The post Fringe…
SOURCE: Footlights at 08:00PMFirst, it took the sitcoms. Now the Netflix pay model is seeping into theater culture. Finally. Third Rail Repertory is the first Portland company pitching a monthly membership subscription …
SOURCE: Footlights at 01:27AMMonday, July 13, 2015
HuffPost: Maybe it’s the summer doldrums, but an uneasy quiet has settled in on the Western Front wars between Actors’ Equity and LA’s 99-seat theater movement. The hiat…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:38PMFriday, July 10, 2015
theGuardian: When was the last time you went to a new theatre show you knew nothing about? In a venue you had never been to before? Where you read the blurb, looked at the image and decide…
SOURCE: Footlights at 10:38PMMonday, July 6, 2015
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS Earlier this year the union’s heavily-lobbied proposal to replace the 99-Seat plan was put to an “advisory referendum,” i.e. a vote of the Los Angeles membershi…
SOURCE: Footlights at 09:15PMThursday, July 2, 2015
Broadway World: ‘Spring Awakening,’ in a co-production revival by Los Angeles based Deaf West Theatre and Forest Of Arden, will transfer to Broadway in the fall. It was first …
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:44PMTuesday, June 30, 2015
East West Players (EWP), the nation’s longest running professional theatre of color and the largest creator of Asian Pacific artistic work, announced today that Tim Dang, Producing Artisti…
SOURCE: Footlights at 11:42PMStage Raw: The National Council of Actors Equity Association overruled the overwhelming results of a local referendum. Defying the clearly-expressed wishes of its local membership, the uni…
SOURCE: Footlights at 11:42PMMonday, June 29, 2015
Here’s a question for you Angelenos: What has a 2000 person workforce, puts on more shows than any other theatre festival in the country, runs for over three weeks in June in dozens of…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:12PMThe 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival ended last night after crowning this year’s award winners at the annual Award Ceremony and Closing Night Party. Over 650 people attended the event. �…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:12PMThursday, June 25, 2015
The website Bitter Lemons now allows theaters to pay to be reviewed. Speaking for the American Theatre Critics Association (ATAC) chair Bill Hirschman had this to say… http://b…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:25AMHow to Write About Theatre: Independent theatre criticism or payola? – The Guardian Scotland writer Marc Fisher comments: Linking coverage to cash on the barrelhead can only serve to…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:25AMKevin Delin analyzes AEA logic through a theory of “matter / doesn’t matter” in the union’s treatment of Los Angeles theater. It turns out when “Matter” is exposed to “Doesn’…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:25AM 
