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Upcoming Auditions: May 23-June 20

Backstage knows you have a busy schedule of meetings, auditions, callbacks, rehearsals, performances, and shoot dates coming up, so we're here to help!

Why You Need To Pay Attention To Your Heart as an Actor

Just like training your pet snake to do something – besides eat rats and constrict – it's difficult to make changes that are permanent in our own physiological system, if we don’t know how it works.

L.A.’s REDCAT Lands $244K Grant To Fund Theater Festival, Residencies

The REDCAT has received a major grant that will help it expand Radar L.A., an international contemporary theater festival set for late September. The Los Angeles interdisciplinary contemporary arts center, known formally as the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, announced this week its received $244,000 from ArtPlace ...

New York Auditions at a Glance: May 23-June 20

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.

California Auditions at a Glance: May 23-June 20

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.

Regional Auditions at a Glance: May 23-June 20

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.

Winners of L.A.'s Jerry Herman Awards On To Broadway

Two Los Angeles area high school students won a chance to perform on Broadway after claiming the top spots in the regional round of the National High School Musical Theater Awards. The final round of the five-year-old competition, whose awards are known as the Jimmys, will take place at Broadway ...

3 Reasons Actors Get Commercial Callbacks

Based on all my experience as an actor, casting director, and teacher, I do believe there is a casting formula for getting callbacks. It is only my educated opinion but I really believe that this is basically the formula and value percentages.

Zachary Quinto Talks ‘Star Trek,’ Coming Out, and the Return of ‘Heroes’

The movie Vulcan has had a buzzy year, with turns on “American Horror Story: Asylum” and the upcoming “Star Trek Into Darkness”—but he spent years worrying about his career.

Navigating the Murky Water of Commissions and Percentages

Actor Donald Faison, being sued by UTA for allegedly unpaid commissions, offers a lesson in the economic realities of contracts.