League of Resident Theatres

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League of Resident Theatres
Formation18 March 1966;59 years ago (1966-03-18)
TypeTheater association
Location
Official language
English
Website www.lort.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The League of Resident Theatres (LORT) is a collective bargaining association in the US with over 70 non-profit theatre members. LORT serves as a way for member resident theaters, also called regional theaters, to bargain collectively on behalf of theater management with Actors' Equity Association, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and United Scenic Artists. [1]

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LORT was formed by the largest of regional theatres to combat unions. [2] :244 Membership is restricted to US theatres considered as "non-profit" by the Internal Revenue Service. [3]

History

The League of Resident Theatres was formally established on 18 March 1966 by Peter Zeisler, managing director of the Minnesota Theatre Company (a.k.a. the Guthrie Theater), Thomas Fichandler, general manager of Arena Stage, and Morris Kaplan, an attorney. Peter Zeisler was appointed the first president, with Thomas Finchandler as vice president and William Bushnell, manager of Baltimore's Center Stage, as secretary. There were 26 member theaters at the organization's founding. Until then resident theater troupes negotiated individual contracts with Equity; most of them used modifications of commercial theater contracts. In some instances the theaters operated under the terms of Equity's new stock contract, however, resident theater managers have long felt burdened by what they call Equity's "one production" type of contract used on Broadway. [4]

List of Current Member Theaters

Theatre [5] CityState
ACT Theatre SeattleWA
Actors Theatre of Louisville LouisvilleKY
Alabama Shakespeare Festival MontgomeryAL
Alley Theatre HoustonTX
Alliance Theatre AtlantaGA
American Conservatory Theater San FranciscoCA
American Repertory Theater CambridgeMA
Arden Theatre Company PhiladelphiaPA
Arena Stage WashingtonDC
Arizona Theatre Company Tucson/PhoenixAZ
Artists Repertory Theatre PortlandOR
Asolo Repertory Theatre SarasotaFL
Baltimore Center Stage BaltimoreMD
Barter Theatre AbingdonVA
Berkeley Repertory Theatre BerkeleyCA
Capital Repertory Theatre AlbanyNY
Center Theatre Group Los AngelesCA
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park CincinnatiOH
City Theatre Company PittsburghPA
Clarence Brown Theatre Company KnoxvilleTN
Cleveland Play House ClevelandOH
Court Theatre ChicagoIL
Dallas Theater Center DallasTX
Delaware Theatre Company WilmingtonDE
Denver Center Theatre Company DenverCO
Ensemble Theatre Company Santa BarbaraCA
Everyman Theatre BaltimoreMD
Florida Studio Theatre SarasotaFL
Ford's Theatre WashingtonDC
Geffen Playhouse Los AngelesCA
George Street Playhouse New BrunswickNJ
Geva Theatre Center RochesterNY
Goodman Theatre ChicagoIL
Goodspeed Musicals East HaddamCT
Great Lakes Theater ClevelandOH
Gulfshore Playhouse NaplesFL
Guthrie Theater MinneapolisMN
Hartford Stage HartfordCT
Huntington Theatre Company BostonMA
Indiana Repertory Theatre IndianapolisIN
Kansas City Repertory Theatre Kansas CityMO
La Jolla Playhouse San DiegoCA
Laguna Playhouse Laguna BeachCA
Lincoln Center Theater New YorkNY
Long Wharf Theatre New HavenCT
Maltz Jupiter Theatre JupiterFL
Manhattan Theatre Club New YorkNY
Marin Theatre Mill ValleyCA
McCarter Theatre PrincetonNJ
Merrimack Repertory Theatre LowellMA
Milwaukee Repertory Theater MilwaukeeWI
Northern Stage White River JunctionVT
Northlight Theatre SkokieIL
Pasadena Playhouse PasadenaCA
People's Light MalvernPA
Philadelphia Theatre Company PhiladelphiaPA
Pittsburgh Public Theater PittsburghPA
PlayMakers Repertory Company Chapel HillNC
Portland Center Stage PortlandOR
Portland Stage Company PortlandME
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis St. LouisMO
Round House Theatre BethesdaMD
Roundabout Theatre Company New YorkNY
Seattle Repertory Theatre SeattleWA
Second Stage Theater New YorkNY
Shakespeare Theatre Company WashingtonDC
Signature Theatre ArlingtonVA
South Coast Repertory Costa MesaCA
Steppenwolf Theatre ChicagoIL
Studio Theatre WashingtonDC
Syracuse Stage SyracuseNY
The 5th Avenue Theatre SeattleWA
The Old Globe San DiegoCA
Theatre for a New Audience BrooklynNY
TheatreWorksRedwood CityCA
Trinity Repertory Company ProvidenceRI
Two River Theater Red BankNJ
Utah Shakespeare Festival Cedar CityUT
Westport Country Playhouse WestportCT
Wilma Theater PhiladelphiaPA
Yale Repertory Theatre New HavenCT

References

  1. Baskerville, David; Baskerville, Tim; Baskerville, Timothy; Elton, Serona (14 November 2022). Music Business Handbook and Career Guide. SAGE Publications. ISBN   978-1-0718-5422-8.
  2. Wilmeth, Don B.; Bigsby, Christopher (1998). The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-66959-7. In response, the largest regional houses formed a collective bargaining alliance, the LORT, to combat the unions. LORT, which represents approximately one-third of regional theatres (including several in New York City) negotiated its first contract in 1966 with Actor's Equity.
  3. Donahue, Tim; Patterson, Jim (4 August 2020). Stage Money: The Business of the Professional Theater. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN   978-1-64336-075-1.
  4. Calta, Louis (4 April 1966). "26 Stage Troupes Form League to Bargain With Actors Equity". The New York Times. p. 26. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  5. "Member Theatres | League of Resident Theatres". lort.org. Retrieved 17 December 2024.