Equity Waver Theater

The new Actors' 99-Seat Theatre Plan, designed to restructure the 16-year-old Equity Waiver Plan (whereby Actors Equity Assn., the actors' union, "waives" certain rules in theaters with fewer than 100 seats), was approved Monday by a vote of 1,684 in favor and 1,023 opposed. Of about 8,000 ballots mailed to Los Angeles area union members on March 21, a total of 2,896 were returned by Sunday's deadline, with 172 found invalid.

The new Actors' 99-Seat Theatre Plan, designed to restructure the 16-year-old Equity Waiver Plan (whereby Actors Equity Assn., the actors' union, "waives" certain rules in theaters with fewer than 100 seats), was approved Monday by a vote of 1,684 in favor and 1,023 opposed. Of about 8,000 ballots mailed to Los Angeles area union members on March 21, a total of 2,896 were returned by Sunday's deadline, with 172 found invalid.