Kalamazoo Gazette: Farmers Alley officially a professional theater

The Kalamazoo Gazette reports Farmers Alley Theatre is making its status as a professional theater official, as it gains more elbow room. The theater has entered into Small Professional Theatre (SPT) status with the Actors' Equity Association, the union representing live theatrical performers. It also has added new rehearsal and storage space by leasing the former Brown & Brown Recording Studio, across the street at 206 Farmers Alley.

Since the Barn Theatre, of Augusta, and Mason Street Warehouse, of Saugatuck, are summer stock only, Farmers Alley is now the only year-round Equity theater in Southwest Michigan.

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"It means we have a better relationship with the union, we can bring in more talent both from in the state and outside the state," executive director Adam Weiner said. "It also gives the actors who work here, if they want, a way to earn points toward their equity card."

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Source: Kalamazoo Gazette