Thursday, October 20, 2016
The 27th Annual Ovation Awards nominations will be announced on Wednesday, November 2 on the LA Stage Alliance’s This Stage website. The awards ceremony will be held on Tuesday, Janua…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:08PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES (October 17, 2016) — The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) has issued the following statement on behalf of the current situation regarding the current prop…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:33AMMonday, October 10, 2016
This month Towne Street Theatre hit the Hollywood radar with Passing Solo, a memory play set in the 1920s about two African American women who share a secret: Their birth certificates read �…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:32AMSaturday, October 8, 2016
Kemp Powers’ One Night in Miami… has now crossed the Atlantic. World Premiering in 2013 at Los Angeles’ Rogue Machine Theatre, the show moved eastward in 2015: first to B…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:09AMThursday, October 6, 2016
Helen Mirren narrates the trailer (below) to a new documentary about the ongoing struggle Los Angeles actors have had with their own Union, Actors’ Equity. In addition, the productio…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:04AMWednesday, September 21, 2016
Hamilton just got choreographed in a powerful way. Sarah Tubert translated “Alexander Hamilton” into American Sign Language.
The post Hamilton: American Sign Language Styl…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:25PMMonday, September 19, 2016
José Luis Valenzuela and Evelina Fernández are an all-in-one husband and wife theatrical team. José Luis Valenzuela is The Latino Theater Company Artistic Director and the head of the U…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 12:42PMWednesday, September 14, 2016
Wendy Worthington is an actor, producer, and founding member of Neo Ensemble Theatre. She joined Actors’ Equity Association only a few years ago. Her motivation was to throw in wit…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:24AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
On September 2, Actors’ Equity has replied to the court about the Plaintiffs’ rebuttal to Equity’s Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit. The 29 page document may be found here. …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:25PMOn September 10, for one weekend only, native Angelena and three time Emmy award winning composer Denise Gentilini and recording artist Lisa Nemzo will mount their original production, I Am …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:25PMMonday, August 29, 2016
Sacred Fools Theater Company announces their landmark 20th Season and Beyond, featuring World and Regional Premieres, as well as complementary programming to celebrate their history and comm…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:43AMWednesday, August 24, 2016
The center of discussion at the town hall meeting this past Monday was an alternative vision from that of Actors’ Equity for what intimate theater can look like in Los Angeles. Prese…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:37PMIt’s been 2 years since this story began: After a Prologue of ReImagine LA activity, followed by Equity engagement with the Los Angeles theater community via survey, focus groups, an…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:24AMThursday, August 18, 2016
The Antaeus Theatre Company has officially vacated its NoHo home of nine years and begun the process of transferring over to its new home in Glendale on 110 E. Broadway. The move has influen…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:56PMInternational City Theatre (ICT), the resident professional theater company of the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, has announced its 2017 schedule: Forever Plaid Feb 17 – Mar 5 (preview…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:57PMVeteran theater critic Myron Meisel applies his Harvard jurisprudence training to the myriad of legal issues facing the Los Angeles theater community including the lawsuit filed against Acto…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:42AMMonday, August 15, 2016
The Rubicon Theatre has announced its 2016-2017 season as one with the theme “Stories that Matter”: A Christmas Carol December 7 – 24, 2016 Adapted by Producing Artistic Director Karyl…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:56PMCalifornia State University Long Beach has announced its 2016–2017 season: A View from the Bridge (September 23 – October 8) By Arthur Miller Directed by Jeff Paul Celebrating the 100th …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:56PMThat’s What She Didn’t Say, a Los Angeles non-profit, will present its first Outdoor Voices Festival, a two-weekend theater festival from September 16–18 and 23–25, featurin…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:56PMWednesday, July 27, 2016
PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES (July 27, 2016) — Members of Los Angeles’ “Pro99” movement, including actors Frances Fisher and Alfred Molina, spoke out today about recent attacks leve…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:15PMLoft Ensemble announces its 2016-2017 season. According to Production Manager Bree Pavey: “We’ve been producing full seasons since 2012, but never as curated by an artistic c…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:13AMThe Road Theatre Company will open its seventh annual Summer Playwrights Festival on Sunday July 31 at 5108 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood, CA. The festival runs through Sunday, Augus…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:10AMTuesday, July 26, 2016
PRESS RELEASE From Lawsuit Plaintiffs LOS ANGELES (July 25, 2016) — As expected, Equity filed a motion to dismiss our lawsuit. We stand behind our claims and are going to file our respons…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:43AMMonday, July 25, 2016
The Hollywood Fringe Festival has released final numbers on its 2016 event: The Festival sold over 56,000 individual tickets. Ticket sales have increased more than 300% since the inaugural f…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:37PMFriday, July 22, 2016
L.A. Theatre Works has announced its 2016-17 season of live audio recorded plays to be performed at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater. Each play in the series will be performed in front of a …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:46AMMonday, July 18, 2016
In its 2016-17 season, Sierra Madre Playhouse continues its focus on American playwrights: Mainstage Shows: Sept. 23–Oct. 22, 2016: Bee-luther-hatchee. Written by Thomas Gibbons. Directed …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:32AMFriday, July 15, 2016
BREAKING: LOS ANGELES (July 14, 2016) — 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 12:26AMWednesday, July 13, 2016
Dolphin’s of Hollywood was not just a record store with a DJ or an iconic music gathering place for rebellious teens during a time of segregation in Los Angeles. For many people who travel…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:01AMTuesday, July 12, 2016
The Ojai Playwrights Conference (OPC) announces its 19th season with a program of playwrights, new play workshops, and special performance events from August 7–14, 2016 in Ojai, Californi…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 11:34AMMonday, July 11, 2016
From actor and scholar Dakin Matthews who is currently appearing on Broadway in Waitress: In a recent letter to the membership – I assume I was not the only person who got it– an AEA pre…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:42AMSaturday, July 9, 2016
The War of Words between Actors’ Equity and Los Angeles Actors has heated up since the breakdown of mediated talks between the two groups. First, on June 28, Equity sent out an unsig…
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