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Actors’ Equity And The Broadway League Reach Agreement On Thorny Issues Around New Work Development
The new five-year Development Agreement resolves an eight-month strike prohibiting Equity members' participation in early stages of development work.
Gains also include increased pre-production time for stage managers and the establishment of a joint working group between the union and employers to create a new audition access program. Many Broadway shows rely on the Development Agreement early on, including this season’s Boop, Death Becomes Her, The Last Five Years, Left On Tenth, Maybe Happy Ending, Real Women Have Curves, Smash and A Wonderful World. At the time, the League’s Jason Laks noted that the contract under negotiation covers only short-term employment in the early stages of development work on projects that may or may not ever become fully-realized productions.
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