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Notes from Arden
What Happened? 2022 in Review, Part 1
And yet, there are those random blooms suddenly flowering in unexpected locations. They are fewer than I recall in prior years, but they’re out there. They give me hope, if only for their tenacity. I’ll focus on those in Part 2 of this article, next week.
Featured Column
FRINGE RAW: “Do You: Migration of the Monarchs”, “Fallen Stars at the Charity Sale”, and “Pagliaccis”
Ashley Steed weighs in on some of her top picks for The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017.
Got It Covered
At the Town Hall coming up, I think I am most interested to hear how Pro99 will respond to the new Equity Website, in particular its sweeping claims that the minimum wage demand will not affect the bottom line of any of the local theater companies, or that the notion of being “allowed” to work three weeks at some under-50-seat stage is somehow equivalent to the fecund cultural scene that is at risk here. –BY PAUL BIRCHALL
Ask Corbett
Ask Corbett a Question!
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Around Town
“You may ask, as Tevye put it, what right does a critic or commentator have to prescribe or exhort on behalf of what perhaps ought to be regarded as an internal conflict between actors and their organization? No right. Instead: an interest, a concern, and indeed, an obligation, to speak out as voice for the audience, the community, the culture, the body civic and the business health of Los Angeles, all of which involves vital concerns of all of us.” — Myron Meisel
The Summer of our (Dis)Content
Our Town
In Defense of the Audience
As Actors’ Equity Association plans to renew talks of changes to L.A.’s 99-Seat Plan at its January 13 membership meeting, MYRON MEISEL looks at the debate from the most overlooked party in the discussion — the audience.