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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS:  Since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020, The Actors Fund, the 140-year-old organization that offers emergency financial assistance and other support service to workers in the the performing arts industries, has distributed more than $26.8 million in emergency financial assistance – rent…

The Actors Fund Home in New Jersey, which saw the death of 10 residents during the horrific early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, is now free of the coronavirus. That’s despite the Omicron variant spike that’s now sweeping the country. As a precaution, all visitations to the retirement home in Englewood have been…

Facing rising costs to fund their retirement homes and assistance programs, the Actors Fund and the Motion Picture & Television Fund are urging supporters to donate on this Giving Tuesday – the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. "In honor of this special day, gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar and mean so much to…

In a competition that’s been brewing since the 1970s, the original casts of the TV family classics The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie will come face-to-face (if remotely) in a special Game Night contest on Stars In The House. The games – typically a combination of trivia and charades – are set for Sept. 21…

Mental health resources are available to everyone in the entertainment industry, but not everyone knows where to find them or how to access them. To address that, the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation, in partnership with the Motion Picture & Television Fund and the Actors Fund, have joined the Behind the…

Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical may qualify as the most unusual Broadway-style song and dance show ever created. It all began in the midst of the Covid pandemic, when a young school teacher, Emily Jacobsen, uploaded a 15 second ditty to the social media site TikTok in August 2020–a song she wrote that celebrated Remy…

UPDATE, with new premiere date A line-up of nearly 30 stars – from Glenn Close, Patti LuPone, Darren Criss, Kelsey Grammar and David Alan Grier to Jake Gyllenhaal, Joshua Henry and Phillipa Soo – will perform title songs from more than 20 musicals for a special livestreamed musical event next month benefiting The…

The human toll of the Covid-19 pandemic on entertainment industry workers has come into sharper focus with the release of a new survey by the Actors Fund. The survey, released Thursday, found that among those who reached out to it for help, nearly half lost full-time employment; 62% reported losing part-time or gig…

The entertainment industry's retirement homes on the East and West coasts, which were hit hard by the coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic, are faring well despite the latest Covid-19 surge that has swept through rest homes across the country. They're also preparing to be among the first to receive vaccines…

Morgan Freeman, Laurie Metcalf, John Malkovich, Zachary Quinto, Vanessa Williams, David Alan Grier, Elizabeth Ashley, Matthew Broderick, Lucas Hedges and Paul Mescal are among the actors who’ll take part in a benefit series of new, livestreamed stage reading productions of works by such major playwrights as Gore…

A one-night-only Halloween benefit concert presentation of the Tim Burton/Danny Elfman spooky 1993 classic The Nightmare Before Christmas is drawing top-notch Broadway talent, including James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin), Adrienne Warren (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!) and Rob McClure (Beet…

The Neil LaBute play The Shape of Things will be given a livestream reading Friday night to benefit The Actors Fund, with LaBute himself taking part in an after-show Q&A to tell “a few war stories about the show.” The 2001 play premiered in London, later revived Off Broadway and was adapted in 2003 as a film starring…