90 stories by "Steven Leigh Morris"
Dear Members and Friends,
These are exciting times for LA STAGE Alliance. Call it a season of silver linings.
As you may have heard, in June our landlord raised our rent 50% on short n…
By Steven Leigh Morris
On Mondays April 16 and April 23, from 7-10 p.m., LA STAGE Alliance is hosting community meet-ups aimed to help guide those interested in participating in funded oppo…
written by Steven Leigh Morris
Summary
This report is on Phase I of the "Sustaining the Los Angeles Theater Community" program, a three-year, three-phase project conceived by The Ahmans…
By Steven Leigh Morris
But soon we must rise, O my heart, we must wander again
Into the war of the world and the strife of the throng;
Let us rise, O my heart, let us gather the dream…
by Steven Leigh Morris
A Modest Proposal
In May of this year, The Ahmanson Foundation approached LA STAGE Alliance and NPO Solutions with an idea to help address and redress the sundry f…
By Steven Leigh Morris
The No-Nonsense Arts Administrator
A colleague had cautioned me that punctuality is a standard Laura Zucker holds in high regard, and that tardiness aggravates her…
by Steven Leigh Morris
As part of its regional conference, The Dramatists Guild held a Town Hall event on Saturday night at the Veterans' Memorial Building in Culver City. The discussion of…
By Steven Leigh Morris
Republican Karen Handel beat Democrat Jon Ossoff by four points in Georgia's special election on Tuesday, in that very Red State's 6th Congressional District (a distr…
By Steven Leigh Morris
Marketing Discontents
This is how the email started:
"Jenna on behalf of Facebook here with a timely story that I think might be up your alley: 

Th…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Facts + + +
, Gertude, we really do live in a post-fact era. And Washington, D.C. may be Ground Zero " the target for whatever …
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
LA STAGE Alliance Ovations Awards on January 17 at the Ahmanson Theatre, hosted by actor, professor, and transgender activist Alexandra Billings, was as much a cel…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
It's been a terrible year, by every standard that snowflakes hold dear.
You don't have to live in the Atlantic northeast or in the mountains of California to be …
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Wednesday evening, LA STAGE Alliance and the Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles hosted an LA STAGE Talk (presented in partnership with California Lawyers f…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
so easy to draw comparisons between our 21st century incarnation of the L.A. theater Equity Waiver Wars and this dumpster fire of a national election that I'll try…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
This is Part II of two previously unpublished 2011 interviews with Gordon Davidson (the founding artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum, who died two weeks ago at …
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
2011, Gordon Davidson, who died last week at the age of 83, was six years into his retirement from his role as Founding Artisitic Director of the Mark Taper Forum,…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
entrancing, outdoor production of The Tempest just closed this summer's al fresco Shakespeare festival in Griffith Park, presented by Independent Shakespeare Co.
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by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
July 21, 2016, Actors' Equity Association, the national stage actors/stage managers' union, filed a Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit Ed Asner, et al v. AEA, in the Cali…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
PART I:
The National Stage Union is Sued (Yet Again) by Its Own Members
the showdown between the New York-based actors/stage managers union, Actors' Equity Ass…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
June 8, the Chicago Reader published an exposé about a decades-old pattern of actor abuse at one highly regarded non-Equity Chicago company, Profiles Theatre. The…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
fuel to the long-simmering fire over whether actors working under the 99-Seat Theater Plan are "volunteers," "independent contractors" or "employees," actress Ann …
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
months ago, the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board in Northern California supported an administrative law judge and struck down a sweeping decision…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
isn't bad enough that California currently ranks 46th in the nation for arts funding, now the State's Employment Development Department (EDD) is engaged in random …
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
different community forums on the future of L.A. theater, some designs LA STAGE Alliance has concocted, various challenges faced by the local stage community, and …
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Monday, we received the dismaying news that the 22-year-old Cabrillo Music Theatre (which operates out of the 1,800 seat Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza) is suspend…
