Cynthia Littleton Business EditorIn another nod to worsening pandemic conditions, SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity Association have extended the agreement struck last year 2020 that makes it easier for producers to offer live streaming and other recorded video of stage productions.The deal was reached in November 2020, months after the shutdown of Broadway theaters put thousands of theatrical professionals out of work almost overnight.
With theaters closed, live streaming and other recordings of theatrical stage productions emerged as an alternate means of keeping the spirit of the Main Stem alive.But those efforts to capture stage plays on video also created some headaches for the industry’s two largest performers unions, SAG-AFTRA and.
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