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SAG Foundation Nets $25K Donation

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation announced the creation of the Beki Pastor Fund, which will provide financial support for the foundation’s programming.

King of Reality TV Mark Burnett Ventures Into Scripted Programming

The man who practically invented reality TV with “Survivor” broke viewership records with his miniseries “The Bible,” but he says the casting processes for both are remarkably similar.

SAG-AFTRA Presidential Field Shapes Up As Ken Howard Confirms He’ll Run Again

The SAG-AFTRA presidential leadership field shaped up Thursday with incumbent Ken Howard and a challenger announcing their intentions to run. Howard, who told Backstage in April he was "inclined" to run, confirmed his interest Thursday. “It’s my inclination because it assures a certain continuity,” he said in a recent ...

Nevada Puts $20 Million Down on Film and TV Tax Credits

Thanks to Nicolas Cage, more film and TV productions could be leaving California. The "Leaving Las Vegas" actor, who lives in Sin City, helped lobby for the passage of the Nevada Motion Picture Jobs Creation Act, which Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) signed into law this week.

Land a Role by Appearing on a Reality TV Show

From Broadway to Hollywood to Beijing, a growing list of productions are turning their casting calls into a talent show.

Video: Robert De Niro On Using Backstage To Launch Your Career

In bonus clips posted online from De Niro's first appearance on the program in 1999, the master actor reveals how Backstage helped him launch his career.

Want to Star on Broadway? 7 Colleges Where Tony Winners Trained

Whether you're soaring high above Broadway audiences, throwing knives at your wife on stage, embodying a upper middle class Jewish woman, or donning a pair of fabulous red boots and dancing on a conveyer belt, you had to get your training somewhere. Find out where some of this year ...

The Best of the Week Ahead: June 13–19

The L.A. Film Festival and New York’s L.E.S.* Film Festival; Vineyard Theatre’s benefit concert celebrating singer-songwriter Dory Previn; “Comedy Nirvana! An Evening With Maron” at L.A.’s Paley Center; and the Lorenz Hart bio-musical “Falling for Make Believe” at the Colony Theatre are what ...

Texas Gets Competitive With a Big Boost to Production Incentives

The fight to lure film and television productions to the South has escalated, with Texas allocating $95 million over two years to its tax incentive program.