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The Sexual Lives of Savages

Post author:Steven Morris
Post published:July 10, 2014
Post category:Reviews - Theater

Hollywood Fringe, Then and Now

Post author:Steven Morris
Post published:July 6, 2014
Post category:Featured Column
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In Stage Raw's curtain call for the Hollywood Fringe, ASHLEY STEED compares the 2014 festival to her recollections of Year One, in 2010 -- after which she left L.A. to study in London. She wasn't here for the intervening three festivals. Ashley offers her perspective on what's changed, and what hasn't, after four years away.

Joseph Stern, on the 99-Seat Plan

Post author:Steven Morris
Post published:July 5, 2014
Post category:Our Town
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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.