Equity Dons Brave Face

Backstage: "The death last month of Patrick Quinn, the former president of Actors' Equity Association who would have become its executive director this week, comes at a critical time for the union and for entertainment labor as a whole. Nonunion tours are an issue again; and, more broadly, with the burgeoning array of entertainment options available, artists could face flat or falling wages as audiences for certain media shrink and splinter off."