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| What WAS the L.A. Stage Alliance? | |
| Posted by: reed23 12:05 am EDT 04/06/21 | |
| In reply to: L.A. Stage Alliance is bowing out after gaffe at Ovation Awards - WaymanWong 11:40 pm EDT 04/05/21 | |
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| I've been looking for even the most basic information about this LA Stage Alliance since the story began. Who are they, both in general, and very specifically by individual? They have no Wikipedia page. Their website is incredibly crude, with about three pages with virtually none of the most basic information one would expect (no "about us," "who we are," "our programs," "our constituent theatres," nada, bubkes.) Since all those theatres quit the Alliance en masse, I assume it's something the community could live without. While I detect a little "...and the horse you all rode in on!" followed by a door slam in the Alliance's abrupt press release, it doesn't sound as if the theatres were seeking resolution of the myriad issues – they split the scene; end of engagement and resolution – followed unsurprisingly by the "Alliance's" self-evaporation. I can't figure out if this "Alliance" was comparable to the Theatre Development Fund, or the Broadway League, or what – I guess a bit of both, but in the Wild West of LA Theatre, with its patchwork of mostly small theatres scattered a 500-square-mile town. I'd still be curious to know WHO the Alliance was – as in, human beings with names. |
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| New York Times coverage | |
| Posted by: singleticket 09:35 am EDT 04/06/21 | |
| In reply to: What WAS the L.A. Stage Alliance? - reed23 12:05 am EDT 04/06/21 | |
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| A bit more about the LA Theater Alliance: A variety of Los Angeles theater industry leaders interviewed Monday said the stage alliance was already in trouble financially before the latest conflagration, and its future had seemed uncertain throughout the pandemic... And several described a number of grievances with the organization, citing insufficient diversity in its leadership and programming, an ineffective response to the pandemic, high membership dues that made it harder for some theaters to participate, and a “pay to play” system in which theaters were supposed to pay a fee for each production they wanted considered for an award. |
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| Link | LA Stage Alliance Disbands After Awards Ceremony Blunder |
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| Many thanks for the very helpful article! n/m | |
| Posted by: reed23 04:25 pm EDT 04/06/21 | |
| In reply to: New York Times coverage - singleticket 09:35 am EDT 04/06/21 | |
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| Thanks singleticket and Singapore/Fling! | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 03:25 pm EDT 04/06/21 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 03:23 pm EDT 04/06/21 | |
| In reply to: New York Times coverage - singleticket 09:35 am EDT 04/06/21 | |
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| Thanks for posting the link to Michael Paulson's N.Y. Times story, which gives a much fuller picture and makes it clear that L.A. Stage Alliance had its share of problems BEFORE the Ovation Awards. When I posted the original link to Deadline.com's more simplistic account, I suspected there had to be more to the story and that All That Chat regulars familiar with the situation, could offer more details. Thanks for your contributions to this thread! (On occasion, I've seen the L.A. Times' Charles McNulty post on All That Chat. I wonder if he'll weigh in on this, too!) |
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| Link | L.A. Times: L.A. Stage Alliance shuts down in fallout from treatment of Asian actor |
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