Articles on the history of theatrical labor unions and additional reading can be found below.

• On the recent move to unionize backstage crew off-Broadway:

  • Atlantic Theater Strike May Be Just the Beginning, New York Times

  • Off Broadway, Labor Tension Heats Up, New York Times

  • As Off Broadway Crews Unionize, Workers See Hope, Producers Peril, New York Times

• When Actors' Equity Staged its First Strike, American Theatre Magazine

• ATPAM History

• Casting Directors Rally for Union Recognition, Playbill.com

• Theater Producers Accuse Casting Directors of Forming Illegal Cartel, New York Times

• Stage vs. Screen Becomes a Union Battleground, American Theatre Magazine

  • How it resolved: The Equity/SAG-AFTRA Streaming Deal is Done

• Actors’ Equity to Place Broadway Producer Garth Drabinsky on its “Do Not Work” List, Deadline