Ken Orsatti, Longtime SAG Executive Director, Dies at 78
Ken Orsatti, who served as national executive director of the Screen Actors Guild for almost two decades, passed away Aug. 31 at West Hills Hospital in West Hills, Calif. He was 78 years old…
Ken Orsatti, who served as national executive director of the Screen Actors Guild for almost two decades, passed away Aug. 31 at West Hills Hospital in West Hills, Calif. He was 78 years old…
Changes to the Screen Actors Guild health plan have been announced, and more are on the way. In an online notice this week, the trustees of the SAG health plan announced that they intend to …
At a public hearing in New York City, production and labor representatives, agents, managers, and parents took turns bashing the Labor Department for a process they thought endangers New Yor…
From building a future for the soap opera to preparing for union merger, the biggest stories of 2011 were about paving the way for 2012 (and beyond).
Last month, TCG released its most recent annual "Theatre Facts" report, which examines the fiscal health of the professional nonprofit theater sector in the U.S. at the end of 2010.
Mariska Hargitay is just one of many actors giving back—both with their dollars and with their time—to the places where they studied the craft.
Actors' Equity Association has named longtime employee Christine Provost its new Central Regional director/assistant executive director.
The New York actor voices support for merger, then is appointed to a third two-year term.
Duncan Stewart, director of casting at the National Artists Management Co., has partnered with colleague Benton Whitley to form a new casting office, Duncan Stewart and Co., located in New…
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society has filed an arbitration claim against the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" on behalf of the Broadway musical's former director, …
Actors' Equity Association has elected 14 new members to its National Council, the union announced Monday. The new council members won five-year terms.
On May 12 and 13 Actors' Equity Association will present a festival of short plays by Asian-American female playwrights. Asian-American theater company Leviathan Lab will co-present.
Neil Patrick Harris is coming back for a Tony encore. The Emmy winner and star of CBS's "How I Met Your Mother" was announced today as the host of the 65th annual Tony Awards.
David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Good People” was named the best play of the 2010-2011 season by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Monday night.
Four productions were canceled when the Intiman board shut down the season. Three of those plays were fully cast.
The union representing singers and production personnel at NYC Opera has declared that a strike beginning April 30 "seems a virtual certainty" if no agreement is reached by April 29.
The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have been courting each other for months. They are now ready to ask for permission to marry.
David Askayar pleads no contest to two counts of violating the Krekorian Talent Scam Prevention Act.
In a recent interview, Daniel Radcliffe claimed that he had three successive actors dismissed from the role of Rosemary in "How to Succeed..." before Rose Hemingway got the part.
Christine Toy Johnson spends a good chunk of her time on the inclusion of groups that are traditionally underrepresented in theater—among them performers with disabilities.
Efforts to merge the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists are moving ahead, though not quite so fast as some have suggested.