Agreement - 2024 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 6

In this week's newsletter, we look at national trends impacting arts organizations, including financial shifts and attendance barriers from three different data sources. Moving to New York, we cover Soho Rep's relocation, Signature Theatre's interim leadership, and Under the Radar Festival's upcoming season.

Ori Yardeni's drama THE MAN WHO SAVED THE INTERNET WITH A SUNFLOWER, based on entrepreneur Rob Ryan, wins The Season’s Best of Show Prize at The IndieFEST Film Awards after success at the Dances With Films Festival.

Skylight Music Theatre has revealed the cast of WAITRESS for their 65th season opener, featuring Julia Levinson as Jenna. See who else is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

We highlight the U.S. House of Representatives' decision to preserve NEA funding, the new collective bargaining agreement between Actors' Equity Association and the Off-Broadway League, and a GoFundMe campaign to save the West Bank Cafe and Laurie Beechman Theatre. Additionally, IATSE joins the No Times Square Casino Coalition.

Rob Mermin's ACT 39, a humor-filled story of friendship and facing mortality, will tour Vermont this fall. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The Festival has unveiled 30 productions in its 2024 programme, featuring new voices as well as familiar faces, a wealth of Irish and International work, exploring stories about family, identity, migration, climate, colonial legacies, conflict and its resolution.

Actors' Equity Association and the Off-Broadway League have ratified a new four-year collective bargaining agreement. Negotiations began on May 15 and took place over the course of 12 days. To ensure a collaborative and productive process, Equity and the League prefaced formal bargaining with three days to articulate top priorities and set rules of engagement.

Welz Kauffman has been appointed as the new Executive Director and CEO of the Old Town School of Folk Music, bringing his extensive experience in arts administration to the renowned institution.

This summer, I spent six weeks in Florence, Italy studying Commedia dell’Arte with NYU Grad Acting Faculty. We studied verbatim theatre, Shakespeare, mask-making, neutral and character mask, and of course, Commedia dell’Arte. The program culminated in a devised and improvised final performance based on Molière’s text featuring popular songs by Billie Eilish, Fleetwood Mac, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Gary Ginstling has resigned from his position as President and CEO of the New York Philharmonic. Learn more.

Van Alen Institute launches 'With Your Voice,' a public art project showcasing site-specific installations in Gowanus, highlighting the neighborhood's changes due to rezoning. Learn more!

Blake McIver Ewing and Tony Award Nominee Marcia Mitzman Gaven will headline THE BOY FROM OZ at OFC Creations Theatre Center in Rochester, NY. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

The Phoenix Symphony and its musicians have reached a new contract agreement, ensuring continued performances and stability for the organization.

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater will present Reefer Madness: the Musical by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney, directed by Christopher Ostrom.

We highlight the Situation Project's fundraising campaign for arts education, a viewership drop for the Tony Awards, and Actors' Equity Association's contract halt amid negotiations. Regionally, we explore the economic boost from Hennepin Theatre's Broadway season and the significant arts funding veto by Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis.

The critically acclaimed Singapore Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Music Director and renowned Austrian conductor, Hans Graf, will make its Australian debut in February 2025 with a three-city east coast tour.

Black Box Studios and Debonair Music Hall present an 'Old Skool Comedy Show' ft. Mike Bocchetti, Erik Marino, Christy Miller, and Mark Riccadonna on Sunday, July 21, 2024, 7:00PM at Debonair Music Hall.

Actors' Equity Association has followed through on its notice that it will cease issuing contracts for work on the Development Agreement, effective immediately.

Playwrights working under the WGGB Writers' Union's TNC Agreement will see a 4% uplift on minimum fees, thanks to WGGB’s negotiators.

17 ushers at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust venue will join the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 306 after voting to unionize in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election last week. Learn more!

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts' mesmerizing, visually-stunning 2016 production of Disney's stage adaptation of THE LITTLE MERMAID has returned for a limited engagement continuing through June 23, 2024. Filled with colorful costumes and sets and soaring mermaids, this spectacular show will enchant both new and repeat audiences alike.

Starting tonight with a special preview episode, 'The Broadway Cast' with Ben Cameron is coming to BroadwayWorld. Also, we report on the indefinite postponement of NYC's congestion pricing plan. Stories include the Cultural Solidarity Fund's COVID relief efforts, Public Theater crew members joining IATSE.

The 2024 Propulsion Award finalists have been announced, celebrating innovation and enrichment in circus arts.

Dua Lipa’s Service95 Book Club has revealed details about June’s Monthly Read: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe. This month’s book club content features an exclusive essay from Patrick on the art of investigative journalism, his recommended reading list and curated playlist, as well as an author Q&A between Dua and Patrick, which will be available later this month.

Renowned comedian and entertainment pioneer, Ellen Degeneres, has announced her highly-anticipated farewell tour, Ellen's Last Stand… Up, including a stop at DPAC in Durham, NC, on August 7, 2024.