• NY Production Listings - Film & TV - 12/30/11

    Updated: 2011-12-30 21:03:23
    Every week Back Stage publishes updated production listings on BackStage.com and in the Back Stage newspaper. These production charts are not casting notices, but do reflect the best general information available about current casting assignments, so you can find out what casting directors are currently working on each production; whether or not the projects are still casting; and where you can send your pix & résumés. Covering major feature film and television projects in New York and Los Angeles (and top theater projects in NYC), these listings contain valuable casting data available exclusively to Back Stage subscribers. To view our...

  • New Dec. 29-Jan. 4 Issue of Back Stage, with Rooney Mara ('The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo') Cover Story

    Updated: 2011-12-29 19:25:15
    Every week Back Stage posts hundreds of casting notices and entertainment-industry opportunities in the BackStage.com Casting/Jobs Database. Check out the following sampling of 36 new notices — performance venues calling for talent, film festivals calling for entries, staff/tech/crew jobs, calls for scripts, casting workshops, competitions, open mikes, and more: 1. New York Television Festival: NEW YORK TELEVISION FESTIVAL, NYC NEW YORK TELEVISION FESTIVAL, NYC The New York Television Festival (NYTVF) is seeking submissions. Producers state: "The NYTVF was founded in 2005 as the first creative festival for television artists. The NYTVF is a pioneer of the independ... More 2. BendFilm...

  • Acts of Destruction

    Updated: 2011-12-29 00:55:15
    “For me, a picture is the sum of destruction. I make a painting, and then destroy it” Pablo Picasso The orthodox way of making a production, is to ‘make’, to ‘assemble’, to ‘create’ in that highly unsuitable word ‘rehearsal’. To … Continue reading →

  • California Auditions at a Glance – Dec. 29-Jan. 6

    Updated: 2011-12-27 22:48:36
    The following "Auditions at a Glance" calendar conveniently organizes projects by the date and day-of-the-week that the projects' auditions are taking place, to help you schedule your plans. Click on any of the following links to see the casting and job notices related to the dates and project titles highlighted below. Thu. Dec. 29 • 'Fiddler on the Roof' Fri. Dec. 30 • Click here to search for auditions. Sat. Dec. 31 • Click here to search for auditions. Sun. Jan. 1 • Click here to search for auditions. Mon. Jan. 2 • Click here to search for auditions. Tue....

  • New York Auditions at a Glance – Dec. 29-Jan. 6

    Updated: 2011-12-27 22:45:49
    The following "Auditions at a Glance" calendar conveniently organizes projects by the date and day-of-the-week that the projects' auditions are taking place, to help you schedule your plans. Click on any of the following links to see the casting and job notices related to the dates and project titles highlighted below. Thu. Dec. 29 • 'Anything Goes', Tour Fri. Dec. 30 • Click here to search for auditions. Sat. Dec. 31 • Click here to search for auditions. Sun. Jan. 1 • Click here to search for auditions. Mon. Jan. 2 • Click here to search for auditions. Tue. Jan....

  • Regional Auditions at a Glance – Dec. 29-Jan. 6

    Updated: 2011-12-27 22:43:39
    The following "Auditions at a Glance" calendar conveniently organizes projects by the date and day-of-the-week that the projects' auditions are taking place, to help you schedule your plans. Click on any of the following links to see the casting and job notices related to the dates and project titles highlighted below. Thu. Dec. 29 • Click here to search for auditions. Fri. Dec. 30 • Click here to search for auditions. Sat. Dec. 31 • Click here to search for auditions. Sun. Jan. 1 • Click here to search for auditions. Mon. Jan. 2 • MA, 'The Miracle Worker' •...

  • Back Stage Reader Snags the EW.com Spotlight

    Updated: 2011-12-27 20:43:27
    This past April, Back Stage profiled the work of actor Maria Olsen in "Curtain," a short horror film, for our weekly "Who Got the Part" column. And it appears as though we weren't the only ones to take notice of this industrious performer's ever-growing presence on the splatter, ahem, silver screen. Entertainment Weekly's website has posted a wonderful first-person account of Olsen's time on the set of Paranormal Activity 3 as part of their year-end spotlight on the "unsung heroes of the year" in the world of entertainment. Click here for the EW.com story, and here for Maria's "Who Got...

  • Xmas Update

    Updated: 2011-12-27 00:00:22
    Merry Christmas to All of You! I am rested after a brief holiday in Newcastle, NSW and now I’ve returned to Sydney (to see the Picasso exhibit) before flying back to my beloved Scotland. I’ve managed to move the eBeBook … Continue reading →

  • Give the Gift of a Back Stage Subscription to the Actor in Your Life!

    Updated: 2011-12-20 23:25:51
    To give a gift subscription to Back Stage, visit www.backstage.com/gift.

  • Watch 'Memphis' Broadway Cast Sing "I'll Be Home for Christmas"

    Updated: 2011-12-20 21:53:16
    Memphis ensemble members Justin Patterson, Jamison Scott, and Kevin Massey took a break from their Broadway performance schedule to sing a beautifully harmonized rendition of "I'll Be Home for Christmas." Watch the video below for their a cappella version of this holiday favorite:

  • Tips to Help You Reflect on 2011 & Plan for a Great Year Ahead

    Updated: 2011-12-19 16:10:37
    Take some time to reflect on this past year.  Write down all of your accomplishments and goals and see if you fulfilled them to their fullest potential. If not that’s ok! That’s what New Year’s resolutions are for: take this time to plan your future and get your priorities straight before 2012 begins. For example, [...]

  • eBook Pause

    Updated: 2011-12-18 05:42:15
    Apologies for no blogs for the past few days. All of my creative energies have been piled into finishing the first proper draft of my book Truth in Action. 36500 words later, a 180 page first draft is finished and … Continue reading →

  • Building a Character

    Updated: 2011-12-12 00:39:04
    It’s easy to see how the mistake was made all those years ago. You read a play and your imagination brought all the pieces therein together and made the characters seem like real people, particularly as the dialogue and style … Continue reading →

  • Forget the Written Scene

    Updated: 2011-12-11 11:07:58
    I am about to commit heresy. So be warned. No matter how good the scene is, no matter how good or bad the writing is, no matter who wrote it, how much you like it, how much you love the … Continue reading →

  • He Knew Too: Do You?

    Updated: 2011-12-10 03:31:48
    This is just a mini-blog post to share something I found in Jeff and Julie Crabtree’s book Living with a Creative Mind. As artists, as creative people, as actors, we feel both a desire to comment on life (outside) but … Continue reading →

  • Rehearsing Pirate | HOW I BECAME A PIRATE actor Randall Eames

    Updated: 2011-12-09 18:04:46
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  • Truth in Action

    Updated: 2011-12-09 13:40:01
    It’s simple to me, but others find it hard to wrap their heads around it. So I thought I would say it louder, or clearer… Truthful intentions lead to truthful actions. By truthful, I mean the actor working within the … Continue reading →

  • Gross und Klein

    Updated: 2011-12-07 13:05:22
    I must first apologise. I don’t do reviews usually, and now there’s two close together. Tonight, I saw Sydney Theatre Company’s Gross and Kleine, a play by Botho Strauss, in a translation by Martin Crimp. The last show I saw … Continue reading →

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