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Scholar and veteran actor Dakin Matthews is back to explain the recent court dismissal of the lawsuit brought against Actors’ Equity. You can currently see Dakin on Broadway in Wai…
Actress and writer Vanessa Stewart is well-known in the Los Angeles theater community and to Footlights readers. With her husband, French, she is a popular host of LA theater award cerem…
“I'm an actor and a coach.” Ok. What else?  After teaching acting on Hollywood Row for years, Anthony Gilardi of Anthony Gilardi Acting Studio wanted to do more. He did. He cr…
PRESS RELEASE From Lawsuit Plaintiffs LOS ANGELES (Dec. 9. 2016) " In response to a court decision on Thursday, Dec. 8 dismissing their lawsuit against Actors' Equity Association, the Plaint…
It’s been quite a day in Los Angeles Theater. First, the court ruled to dismiss the lawsuit brought on Actors’ Equity Association by a large group of Los Angeles theater-m…
Breaking: Judge Hatter has dismissed, without prejudice, the lawsuit brought against Equity by Los Angeles. The official court document of the judgement may be found here. For more of th…
Echo Theater Company turns 20 in 2017.  The 2017 season (#EchoAt20) will include three world premieres as well as one West Coast premiere.  In addition, the company will present LABFes…
I grew up in Dearborn Michigan. For those of you unaware, Dearborn is the home of Ford Motor Company and is immediately adjacent to the City of Detroit. I mention this because there is s…
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) has expanded its circle by 4 for 2017. Both F. Kathleen Foley of the Los Angeles Times and Rob Stevens of Haines His Way are returning and ar…
Growing up in downtown Boston as an inner city kid, the performing arts were more than just a fun place to spend my time after school. Theater was where I could learn and dream and activate …
Under the leadership of Co-Artistic Directors Larry Eisenberg and Chris Winfield, The Group Rep has announced its 43rd Season containing a collection of original and classic theatrical offer…
You remember the story of Solomon and the Baby? Solomon was able to smoke out the true mother of the child by threatening to divide it. The fake mother, who must have been awfully cy…
The Los Angeles Theatre Community is facing an existential crisis. After decades of struggle, and a tenuous thirty-year relationship with Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the union fo…
Summer 2015 was the genesis of a thought: Write about powerful women in Los Angeles Theater. Focus upon a more cohesive picture of theater culture. Open up a dialog about what the landscape …
Venue management and live performance production company Theater Asylum/Combined Artform is returning to Hollywood Row and has just announced a new partnership with Studio C Artists the prod…
The hashtag #NotMyPresident is quite popular right now. I can’t get behind it. Whether or not a person voted for Mr. Trump, he is now the soon-to-be Chief Executive of the coun…
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t." " Polonius Los Angeles playwright and composer Michael Shaw Fisher of Orgasmico Theatre Company has designed a new musical: aÃ…
Footlights received this open letter to the entire Actors' Equity membership from actor and Equity member Leo Marks. In it, he references an upcoming Equity meeting on November 7th, 2016…
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The 27th Annual Ovation Awards nominations will be announced on Wednesday, November 2 on the LA Stage Alliance’s This Stage website. The awards ceremony will be held on Tuesday, Jan…
PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES (October 17, 2016) " The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) has issued the following statement on behalf of the current situation regarding the current propos…
This month Towne Street Theatre hit the Hollywood radar with Passing Solo, a memory play set in the 1920s about two African American women who share a secret: Their birth certificates read "…
Kemp Powers’ One Night in Miami… has now crossed the Atlantic. World Premiering in 2013 at Los Angeles’ Rogue Machine Theatre, the show moved eastward in 2015: first to…
Helen Mirren narrates the trailer (below) to a new documentary about the ongoing struggle Los Angeles actors have had with their own Union, Actors’ Equity. In addition, the product…
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