These old bones can't handle rehearsals past 11. It must be a calcium deficiency because I'm 24. By the end of rehearsals I'm giggling at the sight of thunder. Our backstage jokes are getting pitiable. The rehearsal spaces are looking...
I know the plan was for me to blog more about my recent "Boston Legal" experience, but as John Lennon so wisely put it, "Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans." I've been derailed...
This blog has been several days in the brewing, and while I'm not sure how it's going to go, I'm at a point where I feel like if I don't write it, it'll keep spinning in my brain, never finishing,...
Phew. Massive day. Or, more grammatically appropriate... Day of Massive Importance. Before I banter on about it, I think I've earned myself a nice bott-- erhem, glass -- of wine. [cue trotting to kitchen] Ah hah. Back with a topped...
I just don't know. Sometimes that's all I can think of when I sit down to write a blog. What else is there to say? Freestyle.... I've always heard it was so difficult to be an actor so I've always...
Every week Back Stage publishes hundreds of notices -- casting notices, entertainment-industry job notices, and calls for submissions to talent contests and film festivals. Back Stage is the premier resource for actors, dancers, singers, comedians, and all performing artists --...
I have worked on Trumbo, the play and the film, on and off for eight years. I have watched more than 20 actors perform his letters. I've listened to audiences who have attended different performances debate just who was the...
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program is seeking proposals for its grant program Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary. The proposed feature-length documentaries must highlight and/or include a contemporary social entrepreneur, his or her organization, and a...
Casting director Cindy Tolan (The Namesake) is slated to cast director Mira Nair's next project, Shantaram. The film, starring Johnny Depp and Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan, tells the story of a heroin addict who escapes prison and reinvents himself as...
KathaKaravan, an online marketplace connecting industry executives with South Asian filmmakers, is accepting submissions from filmmakers with projects from or about South Asia that are seeking representation to financiers, producers, distributors, agents, and film festival programmers. Entries may be screenplays,...
He's a respected journalist for the New York Times, Awards Blogger Also Known As Carpetbagger and Gold Rush's long-distance mad crush, but a couple decades ago, David Carr had a few other identifiers next to his name, like junkie, drug...
Why should Heath Ledger be the only "Dark Knight" star to whip up some Oscar talk? Because, our pal Tom O'Neil over at Gold Derby says, Christian Bale might've just slipped right out of Academy voters' hearts because of his...
Alternate headline: Incomprehensible Actor Challenges 'Ignorant' Reporter! See? The Television Critics Association tour keeps bringing the funny. At least for us. After sitting through innumerable sessions at this convention in years past, we can kind of understand where Ian McShane...
Every silver lining has a cloud? While the team behind "The Dark Knight" is still basking in the $158.4 million afterglow, there's disturbing news this morning that Christian Bale has been arrested in London on suspicion of assaulting his mother...
So much to glean from Week 3 of the Television Critics Association tour. Like this stuff from the General Electric TV Empire: NBC's resident party boy/entertainment chief Ben Silverman blames the Lakers for his network's sucky summer, never mind the...
