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Equity Titty Show Campaign Joins Licence Battle

Image author’s own Peter Stringfellow protested it (in his inimicable, awful way), the Proud Galleries protested it (with nipple tassels) and now Equity is applying its considerable union-shaped weight to the battle against it. ‘It’ is the reclassification of burlesque, lap dancing and pole dancing …

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A Purr With Your Play

Great, now try it with a real one / image and cat author’s own As we mentioned yesterday, theatre cats may be about to make a comeback. Time was there were moggies living in theatres across London but increasingly, as they died or retired to …

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Sell Me On A Sunday

Theatreland may soon be curtain up on Sundays if the current Equity consultation on a new pay deal for performers and management is agreed this week. West End performers not afforded billboard shots and leading roles are notoriously low paid for their demanding 6 day, …

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Extra, Extra

They’re seeing red South of the river this evening as Tooting’s blood bank is threatened with relocation to North London. There have been more arrests in the City Hall scandal. The Dalai Lama’s in town. Om. Big opportunity for Londonist readers here: the London Assembly …