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Notes from Arden
Oklahoma!
The magistrate is (almost) directly out of Sweeney Todd. For his gob-smacking indifference to legal proprieties, they could rename him Judge Turpin, and hardly a soul would notice.
Featured Column
FRINGE RAW: “Red Flags”, “A(partment 8)”, and “Girl, Bound”
Ashley Steed weighs in on some of her top picks for The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017.
Got It Covered
“Verini writes, ‘After 21 years of living in this beautiful part of the country, 10 of them engaged in theater reviewing, I have decided that the curtain on the next act of my life — and I hope it won’t be the last act — should go up on the East Coast, where my family and full-time employers and, if I am to be fully honest, heart all reside.’” — by PAUL BIRCHALL
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Around Town
“Certainly one of most substantial musical and theater events this year, the world premiere of Louis Andriessen’s Theatre of the World, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in Walt Disney Concert Hall for only two performances in May represents a prestigious coup for the orchestra and venue that will surely be more thoroughgoingly recognized and appreciated when it opens in Amsterdam in June at the co-producing Dutch National Opera.” — by MYRON MEISEL
The Summer of our (Dis)Content
Our Town
Joseph Stern, on the 99-Seat Plan
A Settlement Committee of the Los Angeles Producers League is currently negotiating the future terms of L.A.’s 99-Seat Plan with the actors’ union (Actors’ Equity Association). Matrix Theatre Company Producer Joseph Stern sits on that committee, and is very concerned about what he describes as the New York-based Union’s historical antipathy towards L.A.’s small theaters. Equity’s recent removal of long-time Union-rep Michael Van Duzer from the Western Region (for decades, Van Duzer massaged the changing terms of the Union’s 99-Seat-Plan, and so preserved the hundreds of small theaters in L.A.) is not a good sign. In speaking with Stern, GUY ZIMMERMAN offer an historical overview on why the 99-Seat Plan is so valuable.