Stage Alliance announced Monday that it is immediately ceasing all operations after mistakes in the group’s Ovation Awards show — including the misidentification of an Asian American nominee — led dozens of theaters to revoke their membership. East West Players, one of the nation’s largest Asian American theater companies, was the first to revoke its membership in LASA, posting its statement on Instagram a day after the Ovation Awards. “What’s clear is that the L.A. theater community is close-knit and supportive, and that’s what’s going to lead the charge out of this,” Desai said. “It is clear that LASA is no longer worthy or even able to serve this community and to conduct the Ovation Awards,” the committee wrote. “A true service organization is not focused on itself, and its own visibility or survival through awards,” Desai said.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 05, 2021 21:00 UTC