This essay was written by Robert Stanton and published in the Gotham Gazette. Seeing an Off-Broadway play may have saved my life. Joseph Papp gave me my first acting job in 1985, in Shakespeare in the Park, and offered the… Continue Reading →
Guess what? Actors’ Equity members can get health and pension weeks for theater-related work that’s not on an Equity contract … or even in a theater. If you’re an AEA member and perform theater-related work like doing live industrials, corporate… Continue Reading →
Today in Union History: President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a crowd in right wing San Diego asserting the right of all workers to join unions. “It is now beyond partisan controversy that it is a fundamental individual right of a worker to associate himself with other workers and to bargain collectively with his employer.” – 1935
“There’s power in a factory, power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing, if together we don’t stand, There is power in a union.”- Billy Bragg “You’re easily replaceable. There are… Continue Reading →
Lou Liberatore is currently tearing up the stage at Actors Theatre of Louisville as Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America.” Lou is a veteran of the Circle Repertory Company, a Lifetime Member Artist at Ensemble Studio Theater and… Continue Reading →
“Sit in a full theater, and you will think you see so many lines drawn from the circumference of so many ears, while the actor is the center. He doth not strive to make nature monstrous; she is often seen… Continue Reading →
“The Only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor” – Thomas Donahue, former president AFL-CIO
In light of both news articles we reposted this morning, we thought it an appropriate time to talk about A.R.T. Both the training program (The Advanced Institute for Theater Training at Harvard University) and the theater itself have undergone major… Continue Reading →
Alejandra Escalante is playing Hotspur at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival right now. #FairWageOnstage caught up with her to ask her about her experience as the first woman to do so at the festival. FWOS: What were your expectations working on… Continue Reading →
By Lauren Villegas Generally speaking, the American theater is already on the right track to becoming a beacon of representation and inclusion. American theater—American musical theater in particular—has come a long way from its origins in minstrelsy. It’s been a… Continue Reading →
Not too long ago, Equity ratified a LORT contract that added jobs for stage managers for the first time since the 1990s. When SPT was re-promulgated shortly thereafter, NO jobs for stage managers were added despite the fact that many… Continue Reading →
Prologue If you are a professional stage actor or stage manager in the United States, it’s likely that you have many beliefs about the “realities” of being a theatre professional. However, you may be surprised to learn that what you… Continue Reading →
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