Friday, August 4, 2017
There’s a black and white photograph in my high school yearbook. It’s of people in winter gear hanging around a railing at the skating rink where our hockey team played. A banner of the …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:42AMMonday, March 20, 2017
Chuck Berry may be dead but you know he won’t stay buried. He’s just too irrepressible for confinement to such a singular state. He was like his music: audacious and muscul…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:42AMMonday, January 30, 2017
Are you a fan of NASA and the scientific output of our national laboratories? Better enjoy it while our open scientific culture lasts. President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty. Pre…
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I can’t tell you why she affects me so. I only know that if I let my guard down for but a moment, there’s a tightening in my gut and a wave of panic and helplessness comes over m…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:04PMFriday, January 13, 2017
If 2017 already seems a little grim, well, it’s likely because it is a little grim. A lot of the country is miserable over the outcome of the presidential election. Or, more prec…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:33PMFriday, December 16, 2016
Though hard to imagine today, federal law once prevented anyone from using the U.S. Postal Service to send contraceptives. In fact, the same law prevented people from using the Postal Servic…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:24PMMonday, December 12, 2016
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 Waitr…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:36AMTuesday, November 22, 2016
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 cynica…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:12AMSunday, November 13, 2016
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 country.…
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Lately my thoughts have drifted to Halloween because we live in a culture where, the moment Labor Day hits, polite women stop wearing white shoes and grocery stores start pushing orange bags…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:55PMSaturday, September 17, 2016
When an American playwright with enough interesting insights to win 3 Pulitzer Prizes – 4 if you count the one not given to him because the advisory committee didn’t want to give a p…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:16AMMonday, September 12, 2016
Dakin Matthews is a proud member of Actors Equity for almost 50 years. He has worked under many of its contracts, codes, and plans including, recently, five shows on Broadway. He is also a…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:13PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
There is much in the news these days about how artists, and the personnel infrastructure supporting the artists, need to be appropriately compensated. Los Angeles theater, of course, has b…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:07AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
Under the title “There is Pro99 Data and Then There Are the Facts,” Los Angeles playwright, producer, and stage manager Armina LaManna has published a rebuttal in The Dramatist …
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SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:12PMFriday, August 26, 2016
Earlier this week, I reviewed Actors’ Equity’s new website equityworksla.com. Equity claims this special site will inform Los Angeles about the coming rule-changes. Seconda…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:13PMMonday, August 22, 2016
Actors’ Equity has launched a new website, equityworksla.com. I wondered why a new website? After all, Equity already has a website and anyone in IT will tell you that maintaining …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 11:10PMThursday, August 18, 2016
In the latest of the legal battle shaping up between a group of Los Angeles actors who are suing their own union, Actors’ Equity, comes the official response to Equity’s Motion t…
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SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:55PMFriday, July 29, 2016
Back in October 2015, when a group of LA actors served a lawsuit on their own Union, Actors’ Equity, actor and scholar Dakin Matthews was there to give a layman’s analysis of the…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:39PMWednesday, July 27, 2016
If you follow the popular tech press, it’s likely you’ve seen a number of stories about artificial intelligence. The term “artificial intelligence” is somewhat loos…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:10AMMonday, July 25, 2016
Following the LA actors serving a lawsuit on their union, Actor’s Equity, the Union has countered with a motion to dismiss that lawsuit. The complete text of the motion can be found …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:45PMFriday, July 22, 2016
The Los Angeles theater company Deaf West has long been lauded but, with its production of Spring Awakening, it’s currently driving a national conversation. Recently, the National En…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:57PMWednesday, July 20, 2016
Footlights originally published this letter from actress and producer Vanessa Stewart on March 25, 2016. Vanessa has since updated her database making it even more accurate and a more valuab…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:10PMIf you are of a certain age, your cultural life was dominated by Garry Marshall’s touch. The Odd Couple. Happy Days. Laverne & Shirley. Mork & Mindy. Pretty Woman. The Prince…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:09AMFriday, July 8, 2016
Actors’ Equity Association has repeatedly expressed concern that the Los Angeles 99-Seat Plan has impeded paid opportunities for actors in the region. Equity President Kate Shindle made re…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:28AMFriday, July 1, 2016
As if their press release earlier in the week wasn’t enough, Actor’s Equity has distributed another press release today in a reaction to the Plaintiffs’ Statement publish…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:18AMWednesday, June 22, 2016
It’s summer! That time of year when people think about relaxing, stress-free family car trips. When oil companies think about increasing gas prices. And, in Los Angeles, when we …
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