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Notes from Arden
Director Gregg T. Daniel, on three days in 1992 when LA burned
It was different century. It was different country. Yes, it was the United States, but it was a different country nonetheless. And it happened in Los Angeles.
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NMI takes AEA to the NLRB, City Garage Re-Imagined and Showdown in Chi Town
“The case, on the face of it, is pretty simple,” Scott Guy told Stage Raw. “We’re asking to be removed from the Do Not Work list. We’re asking to be recognized as a membership company.” BY PAUL BIRCHALL
Got It Covered
“A look at Davidson’s artistic resume is a true walk through the hallowed history of LA theater, with his involvement in an astonishing range of important drama. When August Wilson’s dramas were first being performed, Davidson provided a space for each of his dramas, providing one of the first homes for the author’s dramatic cycle.” — BY PAUL BIRCHALL
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Around Town
“We generally know what’s going to set each other off so we really try not to get stuck in each other’s territory,” Melville explains. Furthermore, says Chalsma, “We are blessed with amazingly calm, go-with-the-flow kids [an 18-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son]. They are doing okay through all this, fortunately. They share a love of Saturday Night Live sketches, so we watch a lot of those!”
The Summer of our (Dis)Content
Our Town
10th Monthly LATN Meeting
Of course, the big elephant in the room is the bitter conflict between AEA minimum wage and local actors working in the 99-seat theater scene. Any discussion of theater at this time must indeed necessarily center on the local scene’s current struggle for existence. As group chair Jon Lawrence Rivera noted, LATN is neutral on the AEA feud, on the grounds that LATN chooses to deal with issues of advocacy and marketing instead of the casting concerns of individual companies. Still, on their Facebook page, the group has hosted equally shrill diatribes from both sides of the issue. BY PAUL BIRCHALL