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40th ANNUAL AWARDS
February 5, 2009…Los Angeles…The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles and Orange County theatre for the year 2008. The 40th Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards ceremony will take place on Monday, March 16 at the El Portal Theatre, thanks [...]

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Friends, Partners and Members,
The current economic climate has taken its toll on LA Stage Alliance. In December 2008, the full-time Development Associate and part-time Administrative Assistant positions were eliminated. Based on income projections for the remainder of the fiscal year, the decision has been made to layoff Director of Operations, Sara Adelman and Communications Manager, [...]

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I urge anyone who is in the early to mid stages of a career in theater, or those interested in starting a career in the arts, or even if you just want to meet your peers, to join the Emerging Arts Leaders network. By attending these regular meetings, participating in any of the numerous committees [...]

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This appeal for more giving to the arts and particularly to theater
nonprofits appeared in the main news section of LA CityBeat in the
Dec. 25-31 issue. Because of the holiday timing and because the
article didn’t even appear on my normal page, my impression is that
virtually no one saw it. But I thought that it might serve [...]

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Monday, January 26th (Chinese New Year), 2009 - Forty-eight active members of the Los Angeles theatre community and the staff of LA Stage Alliance came together to cull the topics and plan the focus of future community forums. Attendees included Peter Finlayson, Paul Plunkett, Trena Pitchford, Jenny Byrd, Camille Schenlekan, Martha Demson, Jon Dorf, Steve [...]

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LA STAGE ALLIANCE TO HOST PLANNING MEETING
Prompted by discussions on BCT and throughout the Los Angeles
theatre community, LA Stage Alliance will facilitate a meeting
to plan future forums to address the issues we face.
In order to accommodate the number of issues at hand,
the planning meeting is intended to prioritize topics and set a
schedule for addressing each [...]

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Big Cheap Theater, a term coined by now Dean of the CalArts School of Theater, Erik Ehn, was used to describe the way in which the small fringe type theaters, which LA is home to many, created. Since the Radical Alternative Theater (RAT) conference it has been used in various contexts and various cities and [...]

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The LSU Department of Theatre presents Outworks 2009, a festival of LGBTQ themed one-act plays.
Deadline for Submission: January 21, 2009
Award: $250 and production videotape
After a successful Outworks 2006, 2007 and 2008, The Louisiana State University Department of Theatre in Baton Rouge is pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for Outworks 2009, a festival of [...]

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LA Stage alliance has a number of programs we run for our members. The most known is the Ovation Awards, the only peer reviewed theater awards in the Los Angeles Area.  while that is a big part of what we do in support of our members, we don’t spend the rest of year just dreaming [...]

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Starting with the October 16th issue, Back Stage East and Back Stage West combine to form one national edition.
Read more: http://www.backstage.com/bso/community/bulletins/bulletins_display.jsp?vnu_c
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www.BackStage.com.

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