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This week’s Backstage casting highlights are all about lights, camera, action. We have five feature films each seeking talent, including everything from independent projects to a Disne…
In a special White House ceremony Sept. 22, President Barack Obama will present the some of the nation’s greatest artists with the 2015 National Medals of Arts. The highest award given…
Director and fashion designer Tom Ford follows up his first film, 2009’s “A Single Man,” with “Nocturnal Animals,” another heart-pounding look at intimacy betwe…
The 23rd annual Austin Film Festival has announced its slate of films and panels, with a number of buzzworthy artists dominating the list. Topping the marquee are such awards season contende…
Today’s Backstage casting roundup has fabulousness built right into the title. “Find Your Fabulous,” an upcoming scripted comedy depicting a women’s fashion accessori…
As an actor, knowing how to control your voice and body through song and dance can enhance a performance and make it more affecting for your audience. The best of the best aren’t known…
Here’s a sweet take on an oft-performed classic. Debbie Allen Dance Academy’s “The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker,” based on the original “Nutcracker” but given…
Ben Affleck is gearing up for quite the awards season. Not only is the Academy Award winner starring in “The Accountant” (and vying for a best actor nomination in the process), h…
Matthew McConaughey is eyeing up his second Oscar.
Starring in “Gold” as Kenny Wells, a man who went from pawning his wife’s jewelry to striking one of the century’s …
Jennifer Ashley Tepper—New York theater historian, producer, and director of programming at Feinstein’s/54 Below—is shining the spotlight on Broadway’s secrets once a…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas—in today’s Backstage kids casting notices, anyway. A nonunion touring production of “A Christmas Story, The Musical”…
The Austin Film Festival is working harder to connect three essential storytelling worlds this year. As a part of its commitment to writers, the fest has announced the lineup for its inaugur…
This week in Backstage casting notices, you have the opportunity to play a Disney princess and travel the world all at once! Disney Cruise Lines will hold open calls in New York City for tal…
The Dev Patel–starring biopic “Lion” has made its way onto many an awards season shortlist. Given its high-profile roster of talent on screen and off, it’s not surpri…
The Actors’ Equity Association has taken a step toward creating further transparency in its termination of the Los Angeles 99-Seat Theatre Agreement. The union launched a website outli…
William Shakespeare probably made more of an impact on English literature, drama, and language than any other writer in history. His plays offer an embarrassment of riches for actors looking…
Willy Wonka is coming to New York City! And if this teaser is anything to go by, it’ll be a candied Big Apple by the time he’s done.
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,&rdq…
Another opening, another closing—the 2016 New York Musical Festival (NYMF) has officially ended, punctuating its successful run with an awards ceremony that found Broadway stars and ne…
For the 41st consecutive year, theater publishing company Samuel French will celebrate the art of the 10- to 30-minute play.
Taking place Aug. 9–14 at Classic Stage Company’s Eas…
It won’t be as quiet uptown for theater lovers come tomorrow, Aug. 2. Fans of the Great White Way now have one more spot to score Broadway tickets at a steep discount.
The TKTS booth h…
Two-time Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry (“The Scottsboro Boys,” “Violet”) is the latest name to be announced in the casting of Chicago’s most anticipated fall …
Roaring lions, clowns on unicycles, and trapeze swingers are just a few of the circus staples that could be attributed to P.T. Barnum, and 20th Century Fox wants to delve deeper into who som…
Two pints of Sam Adams, but he’s working on three...four...five...six? Who is more well-versed on the bad blood between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr—drunk or sober—tha…
For the first time in almost 50 years, New York City’s Ensemble Studio Theatre is getting a facelift. The 545–549 W. 52 St., Manhattan home will see a complete renovation, adding…
You voted for them, and now the Backstage Readers’ Choice Award nominees are finally here! We tabulated over 6,000 responses from Backstage readers to determine your favorite headshot …
