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  • May 2020

Equity in the News May 2020

  1. BROADWAY NEWS: ACTORS’ EQUITY OUTLINES SAFETY PLANS FOR THE REOPENING OF THEATERS

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Thu, 28 May 2020 14:07:00 GMT – 0

    Actors’ Equity has unveiled four overarching principles needed to safely reopen theaters across the country. 

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    • Broadway News
    • Coronavirus
  2. NEW YORK TIMES: UNION INSISTS ACTORS SHOULDN’T WORK TILL EPIDEMIC IS ‘UNDER CONTROL’

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Wed, 27 May 2020 14:17:00 GMT – 0

    Actors’ Equity Association, which represents 51,000 theater performers and stage managers, lays out guidelines aimed to keep its members safe.

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    • Coronavirus
    • New York Times
  3. WASHINGTON POST: STAGE ACTORS UNION SAYS NO THEATERS ARE SAFE WITHOUT THESE GUIDELINES FOR REOPENING

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Wed, 27 May 2020 14:15:00 GMT – 0

    With its entire membership of 51,000 professional actors and stage managers out of work, Actors’ Equity Association on Tuesday announced the health and safety guidelines it expects theaters to follow before it will authorize its members to return to the stage.

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    • Coronavirus
    • Washington Post
  4. DEADLINE: ACTORS’ EQUITY PRESIDENT INSISTS PERFORMERS NOT BE “EPIDEMIOLOGICAL GUINEA PIGS” AS UNION RELEASES GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR BROADWAY REOPENING

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Wed, 27 May 2020 14:12:00 GMT – 0

    The reopening of Broadway theaters should not come without as much consideration for actors’ safety as for that of audiences, Actors’ Equity Association made clear today in a presentation by union officials and their public health safety consultant Dr. David Michaels.

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    • Coronavirus
    • Deadline
  5. DC METRO THEATRE ARTS: AN EQUITY PRESS CALL WITH DR. DAVID MICHAELS ON WHAT'S NEEDED FOR A SAFE REOPENING OF THEATERS

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Wed, 27 May 2020 14:09:00 GMT – 0

    On April 21, the Council of Actors’ Equity Association (the national union for professional actors and stage managers in live theater) unanimously passed a new internal membership rule that members may only return to work when the union deems it safe to do so, and that they will not sign over their rights to a safe workplace. Three days later, on April 24, Equity announced that public health expert Dr. David Michaels, who served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from 2009-2017, during the Obama administration, would consult for the union to help develop new model health and safety standards for COVID-19, and would be key to implementing a plan in which member safety is put first and decisions are made with a clear scientific basis.

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    • Coronavirus
    • DC Metro Theatre Arts
  6. AMERICAN THEATRE: ACTORS’ EQUITY ANNOUNCES 4 GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR REOPENING THEATRES

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Wed, 27 May 2020 14:06:00 GMT – 0

    The actors’ union, advised by former OSHA head Dr. David Michaels, lays out core principles for stage safety.

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    • American Theatre
    • Coronavirus
  7. BROADWAY WORLD: ACTORS' EQUITY SAYS SENATE SHOULD MOVE WITHOUT DELAY ON COBRA SUBSIDY IN THE HEROES ACT

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Tue, 19 May 2020 14:08:00 GMT – 0

    Mary McColl, Executive Director of Actors' Equity Association released the following statement following regarding the HEROES Act, which has now passed the U.S. House of Representatives, and includes a 100% COBRA subsidy for displaced workers.

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    • BroadwayWorld
    • Coronavirus
  8. DEADLINE: DISNEY’S ‘FROZEN’ BECOMES BROADWAY’S FIRST LONG-RUNNING CORONAVIRUS CASUALTY: PRODUCERS ANNOUNCE PERMANENT CLOSING

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Fri, 15 May 2020 13:48:00 GMT – 0

    Disney’s Frozen has become Broadway’s first long-running casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and industrywide shutdown. The production, which opened March 22, 2018, at the St. James Theatre, announced today that it will not return when Broadway reopens — whenever that might be.

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    • Coronavirus
    • Deadline
  9. VARIETY: DISNEY’S ‘FROZEN’ ENDS BROADWAY RUN DUE TO CORONAVIRUS

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Fri, 15 May 2020 13:43:00 GMT – 0

    When Broadway re-opens, it will do so without a certain snow queen.

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    • Coronavirus
    • Variety
  10. ASSOCIATED PRESS: STOPPED COLD: ‘FROZEN’ MUSICAL ON BROADWAY NOT TO REOPEN

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Fri, 15 May 2020 13:42:00 GMT – 0

    The big budget musical “Frozen” will not reopen when Broadway theaters restart, marking the first time an established show has been felled by the coronavirus pandemic.

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    • Associated Press
    • Coronavirus
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