LOOKING BEYOND THE MINIMUM-WAGE MESS IN LA THEATER

Don Shirley – LA Observed

Alarm bells are going off in the LA theater community about Actors’ Equity’s proposal to require most productions to pay Equity actors the minimum wage – soon.

Reading some of the dire predictions, it would be easy to surmise that this step would doom most of LA theater – or at least eliminate the use of Equity actors in most LA productions except those at a handful of larger theaters. Read more…