From the archives…

Philly needs an Equity Showcase—sound the horn!

I was producing a Fringe show last year, and I had an Equity actor (Actors’ Equity is the union for theatre actors). No problem, my co-producer and I thought, we had done an Equity showcase in New York and the paperwork had been only slightly confusing; otherwise the process was pretty straightforward and the basic demands of the showcase were completely fair. But as we began rounding up the paperwork for our Philly Fringe show we soon discovered that an Equity showcase was specific to New York, it was not nationwide, and it did not exist in Philadelphia. more…