Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Actors’ Equity Issues Strike Threat Over Touring Contract
AMERICAN THEATRE: The National Council of Actors’ Equity Association has authorized the union’s lead negotiator, executive director Al Vincent Jr., to call a strike on all Broadway League tours at a time he deems appropriate. The union is seeking fair pay, appropriate housing and per diem, and sufficient coverage to ensure that shows can go on when individual Equity members cannot.How New Legislation Could Redefine the Broadway Body
Playbill: As the Broadway industry continues to evolve, debates around body inclusivity and the diversity of performers seen onstage remains a hotly contested topic. Fatphobia and Achondroplasiaphobia remain prevalent, and when combined with traditional binary gender roles and their strictures, legions of talented performers are shut out of the theatre industry for not conforming. New York City Bill INT 0209 aims to change all of that.Why Williamstown Theatre Fest has no full shows this summer
www.timesunion.com: Conspicuously absent from the 2023 season at Williamstown Theatre Festival is the middle third of its name: For only the second time since the company’s 1954 founding, there will be no fully staged theater productions. (The first was in 2020, when its shows were available online as audio versions because of early pandemic prohibitions against large in-person gatherings.)Texas Republicans Just Proposed a Bounty on Drag Shows
theintercept.com: Given Republicans’ relentless legislative attempts to erase trans and gender nonconforming people, a new bill in Texas that LGBTQ+ advocates are describing as the “drag bounty hunter bill” may seem like a drop in the ocean. This fact alone is intolerable. There is, however, something particularly barbaric in the bill’s explicit encouragement of citizen harassment to drive gender variance out of public life.WGA East and West authorize strike vote
Reel 360 News: It could be 2007 all over again. The Writers Guild East and West (WGA) announced that its members will take part in a strike authorization vote between April 11 and April 17.
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