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Work It Out

Actors with passion and craft get an extra push from casting director Kimberly R. Hardin.

Wanted: Actors Who Can Cook, Too

When Ed Schmidt imagines the rest of the country, he sees city after city with at least one actor who strongly believes he or she deserves that elusive breakout part, that role that turns heads and captures the buzz. And Schmidt has the role they're looking for—that is ...

Dream on Monkey Mountain

Presented by the Classical Theatre of Harlem at HSA Theatre, 645 St. Nicholas Ave., NYC, Oct. 3-26.

Good Hair Days

A year after Sept. 11, Broadway and Off-Broadway box-offices are suffering through the same roller-coaster ride as Wall Street. What theatre's main boulevard needs is a great big hit—and one has arrived in the midst of the traditionally slow summer season. To employ the obvious metaphors, Hairspray has ...

SAG Pushes For Merger

This summer, when Melissa Gilbert ran for a second term as the Screen Actors Guild national president, she vowed to continue working for a SAG consolidation with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).

Rain Dance

It's the night before the Trinity atomic test at Los Alamos, N.M., and everyone's a bit jumpy.

eq. & open, walt disney

3/6 & 3/7 at 10AM and 12noon at New Dance Group, 254 W. 47 St., NYC.

Marriage of True Minds

David Dukes was really too good an actor for his own good—at least, he often seemed too smart and nervy and versatile for this town, which mints stars like collectible plates and keeps the rest of the talent pool in a state of anxious limbo, perpetually on call and ...