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Plays 'Caping,' Equity Video Submissions * Casting Equity actors for 'Caping.' COVID Safety: For the protection of our artistic and production teams, this project will be entirely virtual. All production [...]

NINE PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS, seven Mac Arthur 'Genius' Award winners, a U.S. Poet Laureate, playwrights whose works have appeared on Broadway and visual artists who've been exhibited in major museums. [...]

'One of your jobs as a librettist is to inspire a composer to write really awesome music,' says Royce Vavrek, the Canadian librettist and playwright currently making extraordinary waves in [...]

The cultural equivalent of Richard M. Nixon's 'You don't have Nixon to kick around anymore' speech was delivered by a disgruntled forty-one-year-old critic, failed novelist, and undistinguished playwright named George [...]

Submit a Notice SUBMIT YOUR CALLS FOR CAST AND CREW: Visit backstage.com/findtalent and click on 'Post a Notice.' Include all relevant project requirements, including any pay, fees, dues, costs, required [...]

THE THEATRE FIELD IS NOT BUILT FOR parent artists. Six-day workweeks, 12-hour tech days, last-minute schedule changes--it's almost like we don't want parents working in theatre. It is especially challenging [...]

LAST DECEMBER AT THE PUBLIC THEATER, THE PARENT ARTIST ADVOCACY LEAGUE hosted an extraordinary gathering of theatre leaders, artists, and academics to share best practices and challenges around support for [...]

Wrapped up against the December chill in a dark coat, a grey scarf around his neck, Sir Tom Stoppard gingerly descends the stairs to the basement of the crowded coffeehouse [...]

NEW YORK TRISTATE PLAYS 'Aspen Ideas' * Casting Equity actors for 'Aspen Ideas.' * Company: Studio Theatre. Staff: Abe Koogler, playwright; Les Waters, dir. * Rehearsals begin May 26; runs [...]

It's a fair question whether we go to the theater to confront realities as unpleasant and insoluble as the one presented in Harry Townsend's Last Stand (Stage II at City [...]

NEW YORK TRISTATE PLAYS 'Always A Bridesmaid' * Casting Equity actors for 'Always A Bridesmaid.' * Company: Seven Angels Theatre. Staff: Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten, playwrights; Julia Kiley, [...]

PLAYS 'Quixote Nuevo' * Seeking Equity actors for various roles in Round House Theatre's production of 'Quixote Nuevo.' Roles will not understudied. * Company: Round House Theatre. Staff: Octavio Solis, [...]

PLAYS 'A Sign Of The Times' * Casting Equity actors for 'A Sign Of The Times.' * Company: Times Sq Productions LLC. Staff: Times Sq Productions, LLC, prods.; Lisa Dozier [...]

NEW YORK TRISTATE PLAYS 'Bayano: My Odisea' * Casting Equity actors for seven actor tracks, playing various/multiple roles in 'Bayano: My Odisea.' * Company: National Black Theatre. Staff: Darrel Holnes, [...]

FOR YEARS, I IDENTIFIED AS A PLAYwright who wanted an MFA. I had seen those coveted three letters in almost every playwright's bio, often attached to an illustrious university--an Ivy, [...]

EVERYTHING THAT RUDI GOBLEN HAS DONE AS AN ARTIST SEEMS SOME-where between unlikely and impossible. Growing up as a kid from Nicaragua in a working-class Miami neighborhood, he and some [...]

NEW YORK TRISTATE PLAYS 'Actually' * Casting 'Actually.' Synopsis: Amber is charmingly neurotic and seemingly confident. Tom is a handsome and appealing go-getter. It's their freshman year at Princeton, and [...]

NEW YORK TRISTATE PLAYS 'A Doll's House Part 2' * Seeking submissions from Equity members for three roles in 'A Doll's House Part 2.' * Company: Cleveland Play House. Staff: [...]

LISA PORTES WANTS EVERYONE TO KNOW ONE thing: Chicago may be famous for its devotion to the ensemble company model and (increasingly) for the playwrights who cut their teeth in [...]

The French Catholic philosopher and playwright Gabriel Marcel may be the 20th century's great diagnostician of (and prophet against) one of modernity's besetting sins: abstraction. Trained as an idealist, he [...]

NEW YORK TRISTATE '17 Minutes' * Casting Equity actors for '17 Minutes.' * Company: The Barrow Group. Staff: Scott Organ, playwright; Seth Barrish, dir.; Lee Brock, co-artistic dir.; Porter Pickard, [...]

'EVERY MEMORY HAS A PATINA OF INVENTION on it,' writes Octavio Solis in his poignant and illuminating new memoir, Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border (City Lights [...]

IF YOU ARE A YOUNG PLAYWRIGHT JUST STARTING out, you will meet playwrights who have had productions, some degree of recognition, and maybe an agent. Chances are you have asked [...]

NEW YORK TRISTATE PLAYS 'Dance Nation' * Casting Equity actors for 'Dance Nation.' Note: This project contains nudity. * Company: Wilma Theater. Staff: Blare Barron, playwright; Margot Bordelon, dir.; Laura [...]

NEW YORK TRISTATE PLAYS 'A Kid Like Rishi' * Casting Equity actors and seeking stage manager and ASM for 'A Kid Like Rishi.' * Company: Origin Theatre Company. Staff: Stephanie [...]

NEW YORK TRISTATE PLAYS '72 Miles To Go...' * Seeking Equity actors for various roles in '72 Miles To Go...,' a play. The play spans eight years from 2008-2016. SM [...]

PLAYS 'American Mariachi' * Casting performers 18+ in 'American Mariachi.' * Company: Dallas Theater Center/The Goodman Theatre. Staff: Jose Cruz Gonzalez, playwright; Henry Godinez, dir.; Cynthia Reifler Flores, music direction; [...]

Six hundred and fifty pages might not seem excessive for a biography of Henrik Ibsen. He lived, after all, a relatively long life, dying in 1906 at the age of [...]

Through the powerful characters she plays on-screen and her work helping women and girls around the world, Black Panther star DANAI GURIRA has found a strength and purpose that propels [...]

LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Jeff Daniels in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' If you've managed to get into the Shubert Theatre for 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' you're one of the lucky [...]

HISTORY REPEATED ITSELF, AND THE POSSIBILITIES FOR THE FUTURE WERE revealed, as we organized the 2018 International Black Theatre Summit, 'Breaking New Ground Where We Stand,' which took place at [...]

REPRESENTATION AND AWARENESS GO HAND IN hand. It's simple math: The more representation of a group in the arts, the more aware the wider culture becomes of that group's culture. [...]

NEW YORK TRISTATE PLAYS Adriondack Theatre Festival * Casting Equity actors for the Adriondack Theatre Festival 2019 Season. Season includes 'Calling All Kates' (Romantic Musical Comedy. Emily Goodson, book; Jeremy [...]

WHITE OAK PLANTATION, HOME TO PINE STANDS and palmettos, is located in a muggy small town in Florida. The property, which sprawls across more than 7,000 acres, was the project [...]