A Little Understanding for the Understudies
The work of understudies, standbys, and swings is always exhausting and show-saving, but it took a pandemic to get most audiences and even the industry to recognize their value.
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The work of understudies, standbys, and swings is always exhausting and show-saving, but it took a pandemic to get most audiences and even the industry to recognize their value.
Working Latinx actors discuss how far the theatre industry has come and the ways it can still grow.
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