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Understanding the moment-by-moment emotional drive of a character is fundamental to good acting. That's why the most clichéd of all actor statements is "What's my motivation?" (To which Alf…
Th direction of American theatre is changing. Not just hip-hop, but actor created productions, that share profits with the participants. As reported in American Theatre NEW YORK CITY:Â The…
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% immedi…
The Laguna Playhouse has announced it 2016-2017 season: All Shook Up July 6 " August 7, 2016 (Press Opening July 10) Book by Joe DiPietro A newcomer's rock 'n' roll attitude shakes up an Eis…
Press 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…
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 sp…
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 tremendou…
Have you heard of the Bechdel test? It was developed to formalize an observation made by Virginia Woolf about the simplicity of women’s characters in literature. A piece of fic…
Writer Holly Harper asks a very simple question: Theatre is about acceptance, so why can’t women be accepted?
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The intimate theatre community is a community of artists. We believe artists should be paid. We share that common goal with Equity. We also believe Equity's attempt to radically alter intima…
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. It…
Yesterday, Actors’ Equity officially applauded a wording change in the casting notice for Hamilton. The tweet was controversial because it begged the question about being able to c…
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 prod…
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 c…
Los Angeles-based theater critic and essayist, Anthony Byrnes, provides a succinct summary of the present situation between the LA theater community and Actors’ Equity. Â As Byrnes …
I just spent about a year of researching 99-Seat productions that moved to contracts. And here's what I found (with help from the Los Angeles Theater Community): At least 127 productions tha…
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 T…
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 " October…
ThisStage: LA STAGE Alliance Director, Steven Leigh Morris, continues to espouse his theme of “we’re all in this together” concerning the recent, near back-to-back producti…
Press Release: It is with great sorrow that the Board of Directors of Cabrillo Music Theatre announces that it will suspend its productions at the conclusion of the 2015-2016 season, followi…
"And the other is that " and I think this is one of the things that guided the Council " the idea that a mid-sized theater could open at this point, or even a smallish theater, could open at…
The Pasadena Playhouse has announced its 2016-2017. This will be the final season under the guidance of Artistic Director, Sheldon Epps. The Fantasticks (written by Harvey Schmidt and To…
We thank Dakin Matthews, Steven Leigh Morris and many others for their eloquent, considered responses to Kate Shindle's recent statements during her interview on The Producer's Perspective. …
KCRW’s Anthony Byrnes asks the simple question: What if theaters came to you rather than you went to theaters? After all, if theaters in Los Angeles are looking to cost-share and broad…
Actors' Equity Association, the labor union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States, is getting ready for its annual elections. Out of fifty thousand members, the hope…
