Equity in the News

Under the agreement that will pave the way to reopening the shows, touring company members will be required to be fully vaccinated.

The Broadway League and Actors’ Equity have reached an agreement on safety protocols for North American touring productions.

President Biden celebrated the role of the arts and artists in American society on Friday, using the Kennedy Center Honors as a moment to reflect on the arts’ powerful contributions, which he said were especially evident this year.

Mary McColl, the current executive director of Actors’ Equity Association, has announced that she will not seek a new contract when her current agreement expires in January 2022.

The national council will create a search committee to seek a replacement executive director.

Equity is currently urging an extension of federal pandemic unemployment insurance past its proposed September expiration date.

As the City and the State continue to tout re-opening dates for Broadway, Ollie Southgate discusses how re-openings in Australia and off-Broadway have played out, and how the industry's unions are responding to widespread allegations surrounding abusive producers and coming back better.

Brandon Lorenz stated "...the arts especially are in a pandemic economy that will not be fully recovered by September.”

Ira Mont, veteran broadway stage manager and VP at Actors' Equity Association, talks about the reopening of Broadway in September.

Many Broadway productions are scrambling to resume ticket sales in the coming days to welcome theater-goers this fall after city and state leaders have green-lit a reopening of the Great White Way at full capacity by mid-September.