BROADWAY NEWS: BROADWAY LEAGUE, ACTORS’ EQUITY REACH AGREEMENT ON TOURING COVID-19 PROTOCOLS

The Broadway League and Actors’ Equity have reached an agreement on safety protocols for North American touring productions. 

The protocols, which require all touring members of the company to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, call for cast, crew members and musicians to wear masks and maintain physical distancing unless performing on stage or if doing so interferes with the functions of the job, as in the case of brass or woodwind musicians. 

The regulations currently require weekly testing of cast and crew members — at no cost to those being tested — but note that this requirement may be revised, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releases more data on vaccinated individuals.

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