Actors’ Equity Seeks to Unionize Broadway Production Assistants

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Written by: Michael Paulson

The position is one of the few nonunion segments of the theater industry’s work force.

Actors’ Equity, the labor union representing American stage performers and stage managers, is seeking to unionize Broadway production assistants, one of the few nonunion segments of the industry work force.

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A.I.-Scripted Stories, and a Counterpoint, Take the Stage Off Broadway

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Written by: Laura Collins-Hughes

“Prometheus Firebringer” and “Bioadapted” test the waters, while the abstract “Psychic Self Defense” is a warm and pulsing counterpoint.

Seated behind a plain wooden table, the theater maker Annie Dorsen is not costumed to catch our gaze, or lit dramatically. In the performance-lecture that is her A.I.-focused show “Prometheus Firebringer,” at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, you might assume she’d be the boring part.

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Jordan Fisher, Charity Angél Dawson, Adam Pascal, More Set for Free Broadway Forever Concerts

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Written by: Andrew Gans

Cabaret & Concert News

The concerts, also featuring stars from & Juliet, Harmony, Here Lies Love, and more, will be held in Manhattan and the Bronx.

Broadway Forever, a series of free pop-up concerts and community service opportunities, will return for a second year with events in Manhattan and the Bronx.

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How Broadway Is Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month

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Written by: Playbill Staff

National Hispanic Heritage Month begins September 15, but celebrations are starting early with the concert ¡Viva! Broadway: Aquí y Allá (Here and There). “I celebrate my Hispanic heritage all year long with the food I cook, the music I listen to, and the fantastic conversations I have in Spanish with friends and family,” says Broadway actor Andréa Burns, before asking, “How will you spend it?”

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Lea Michele Ends ‘Funny Girl’ Run on Broadway

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Written by: Julia Jacobs

The Broadway revival saw an immediate change in its fortunes when the actress stepped into the production last September. “That was my dream come true,” Lea Michele gushed from the stage on Sunday after her final performance in “Funny Girl,” the Broadway revival that the actress breathed new life into when its future looked grim one year ago.

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