Page 39 - Actor Equity News Today

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Kermit Poling hosts a spotlight with the cast of Driving Miss Daisy, opening tonight at Shreveport Little Theatre. Driving Miss Daisy is a searing, funny, and hopeful meditation on race relations in America, told through the complex relationship between three enduring characters, Miss Daisy, Hoke, and Miss Daisy's son, Boolie.Television and stage star Anne Lockhart will star as Miss Daisy. Appearing opposite Lockhart will be Robert Blue as Hoke and Thomas Hamauei as Boolie. In addition to d...

SHREVEPORT, La. - KTBS 3 sat down with one of the stars and the director of "Driving Miss Daisy", which is opening this week at Shreveport Little Theatre.

Actors' Equity Association and the Broadway League have come to an agreement on touring contracts. In addition, President Biden appointed a number of high-profile artists to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Furthermore, a recent ruling on Tony eligibility has raised questions about Tony nominators and nonbinary performers.

Remember Garth Drabinsky’s case against Actors’ Equity Association? It is now no more. Equity has won its motion to dismiss the complaint filed by Drabinsky.

WGA union argues companies have ‘leveraged the streaming transition to underpay writers’

Santa Fe Playhouse presents Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning 'masterpiece about the decline of post-industrial America' (TimeOut London), SWEAT, directed by SFP artistic director Robyn Rikoon.

As BroadwayWorld first reported last fall, there has been much talk about the potential of a Times Square casino, but will the plans ever come to fruition? Not if the New Times Square Casino Coalition has anything to say about it. 

The defamation lawsuit Paradise Square producer Garth Drabinsky filed against Actors’ Equity has been dismissed with prejudice. In the lawsuit, filed in…

The producer sued after the union placed him on the "Do Not Work" list, alleging thousands in owed payments and a hostile work environment.