Patti LuPone won't be on stage for 'a very long time' as she gives up her Actors' Equity card

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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. 'My hearing is such that I need captioning devices in order to see a show,' Coleman said in her video. 'And to kind of be ostracized and publicly ridiculed really hurts.