Saturday, 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…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:08AMTuesday, June 28, 2016
In a letter to its members, Actors’ Equity tells its side of the story to end the 99-Seat Plan in Los Angeles. Significantly, no union official nor any union elected representative was…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:21PMSunday, June 26, 2016
Below is the full list of the Hollywood Fringe Festival Award Nominees. Congratulations to everyone and good luck! Updates on winners to follow. Community Award (“The Freaks”) No…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 11:46PMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Last month, Hollywood Fringe Festival founder and director, Ben Hill, spoke with FootLights about the 2016 Summer lineup and the general direction of the festival going forward. Fringe has u…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:38PMFriday, June 10, 2016
The house lights are up on Profiles Theatre. Way up. In a recent in-depth expose, Chicago Reader informs its audience about the actor abuse that has taken place there for over 20 years: …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:06AMThursday, June 2, 2016
Collaboratively exciting on the festival scene this Summer is the alliance between The Blank Theatre, The Hollywood Fringe Festival and Theatre Asylum. For the first time, Founding Ar…
SOURCE: Footlights at 10:12AMWednesday, May 25, 2016
“Crowdfunding is the way we fund art now. For someone who has a dream, that wants to be a storyteller, or wants to invent something, or bring something new to the world, it’s is the most…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:36PMMonday, May 23, 2016
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts’ 2016-17 season will include over 300 performances of more than 50 different programs of theater, dance, and music featuring both local …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:00PMFriday, May 20, 2016
The Telegraph: Critics have a job to perform at the theater: to help the public understand where to spend hard earned dollars and precious time. Of course, it never hurts to have a little …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:00AMThursday, May 19, 2016
The official results, including vote totals, of the 2016 Actors’ Equity election are shown below, winners are in red. A total of 7215 valid ballots were cast of which 4132 were cast …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:48PMTuesday, May 17, 2016
After a nearly 3 year residence at the NoHo Arts Center, the 68 Cent Crew Theatre Company/ Theatre 68 has claimed the one time Deaf West, and soon to be former Antaeus Theatre Company venue …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:16PMThursday, May 12, 2016
South Coast Repertory has announced its 2016-17 season. The theater’s commitment to new voices in the American theater will be seen through three world premieres and five West Coast …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:50PMTuesday, May 10, 2016
Grant in support of Fringe Scholarships program The Hollywood Fringe Festival is proud to announce that it has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Art Works grant of $10,000 to s…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:35PMThe 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival has been gearing up for months with a constant stream of excitement and information appearing on Facebook and Twitter, where local participants are already…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:26AMWednesday, May 4, 2016
“I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:48AMTuesday, May 3, 2016
In a bit of news that will surprise no one outside of New York City, nearly every single one of the 2016 Tony nominees are in shows that began life in non-profits. As American Theatre wryl…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:24PMThursday, April 28, 2016
On April 18, 2016, Antaeus Theatre Company announced that after years of planning and fundraising, construction on their new location at 110 E. Broadway in Glendale has finally commenced. At…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 12:01AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Now in its second year, the 2016 Stage Raw Awards, given to honor the excellence found in Los Angeles 99-seat (intimate) theater, were held on Monday, April 25 at the Los Angeles Theatre Ce…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:26AMMonday, April 25, 2016
It happened so quickly. Late November 2015, LOFT Ensemble received an unexpected notice to vacate, after the downtown Los Angeles building that houses the company had been sold. The new owne…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:25PMWednesday, April 20, 2016
Latest from Ben Hill and the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival: Auction for Premium Guide Ad Placement Now Open If you’d like some great publicity for your show or business, Ben Hill and…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:31PMFriday, April 8, 2016
The Hollywood Reporter takes a look at what is being done with all those dollars that Broadway’s Hamilton is raking in. With weekly grosses of $1.5M in ticket sales, 40% immediatel…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:13PMThursday, April 7, 2016
This Week in Shakespeare, the weekly video series created by bicoastal actors Liza de Weerd and Brian Weiss, hit a major milestone this week by posting its 100th episode. To mark this spec…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:45AMPress Release: The Board of Directors of Cabrillo Music Theatre is very proud to announce that the company has secured donations from members of the community, which will allow it to continu…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:45AMWednesday, April 6, 2016
Actors’ Equity President Kate Shindle has a guest column in Variety to formally write about diversity and the Hamilton casting notice. Earlier in the week, Equity created tremendous …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:34AMSunday, April 3, 2016
Writer Holly Harper asks a very simple question: Theatre is about acceptance, so why can’t women be accepted?
The post Theater and Misogyny appeared first on Footlights.
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:55PMFriday, April 1, 2016
The summer season lineup at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum includes four timeless classics that continue to reflect our life and times centuries after Shakespeare’s death 400 years ago…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:20AMThursday, March 31, 2016
The diversity argument in the arts has been brewing hotter for at least a year now. The backlash discussion of Howlround’s Jubilee, an attempt to get theaters to commit to producin…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:08AMWednesday, March 30, 2016
Last year, the new Bitter Lemons policy of “pay-for-play,” paying the publication to get them to send a reviewer, created a national debate on the practice – and near universal…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:33PMLos Angeles-based theater critic and essayist, Anthony Byrnes, provides a succinct summary of the present situation between the LA theater community and Actors’ Equity. As Byrnes em…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 11:28AMFriday, March 25, 2016
Latest from Ben Hill and the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival: Registration Deadline for Guide Inclusion is Friday, April 1. No Fooling! Official 2016 Hollywood Fringe Participant Packet The…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:07PMThursday, March 24, 2016
Beginning its third decade of producing world-class theater, the not-for-profit Geffen Playhouse announces its upcoming season: Barbecue (written by Robert O’Hara), September 6 – Octob…
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