Patti LuPone Actually Quit Broadway Months Ago, She Reveals in New Statement

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Patti LuPone is opening up about the true reason she chose to hand in her equity card from the Actors Equity Association.

Patti LuPone has left the Actors’ Equity union and hinted an end to her Broadway career. The 73-year-old actress - who infamously stopped production of 'Gypsy' she was starring in in 2009 when an audience member was on their phone - has spent decades on the New York stage starring in acclaimed productions of musicals such as 'Les Miserables', 'Sunset Boulevard' and 'Sweeney Todd' but is "no longer part of that circus" just days after seeing her name "bandied about" in connection to a more recent incident, which saw an audience member at 'Hadestown' reprimanded for using a captioning device.

Patti LuPone signaled that her time on Broadway is coming to an end 'for a very long time' when she gave up her Actors' Equity card.The 73-year-old legendary stage star tweeted on Monday that she was giving up the card after she became a subject of criticism on social media in the past week.The card — and the membership in the Equity labor union that it represents — is required to act on Broadway stages and in many theaters across the country, meaning that LuPone likely won't be seen on stage as long as she is out of the union.  She's done (for now): Patti LuPone, 73, said she was giving up her Actors' Equity card in a tweet from Monday. She was mentioned on social media after a Hadestown actor mistakenly called out a deaf patron for using a captioning device; seen in May in NYCThe controversy surrounding LuPone began last week and involved a play she isn't even starring in. During a performance of Hadestown at the Walter Kerr Theater in Manhattan on Thursday, the actress Lillias White, 71, stopped the performance to call out a woman named Samantha Coleman for seemingly using her phone and possibly recording the show.But Coleman, who is partially deaf and blind, was using an electronic captioning device to help her follow the performance, which she posted about in an impassioned Instagram video that ended with her in tears.

Triple Tony winner and stage icon Patti LuPone says she’s given up her Actors’ Equity card, a move that could signal an end to her celebrated Broadway stage career.

On Monday (October 17), Broadway legend Patti LuPone sent theater fans into a panic over a tweet she sent out.