There is such a fine line between being gross with your self-promotion and being assertive. I'm an assertive person, but I have a really hard time knowing when to seize a potential opportunity and when to sit back and wait...
Like a total lame-ass loser, my plans for the 4th of July included hanging out in my apartment going through my score and script, drinking coffee, and doing laundry. By the time 3pm rolled around, I was bored and lonely....
Happy 4th of July! I got my fill of fireworks in last weekend at this dinky town fair out in Jersey. It was really odd because it looked as if they spent at least a million bucks on the fireworks...
Long day, but I accomplished all my goals. Rewrite, Edit, Audition, Postings... Now, who's got a grill going? Anyone? Anyone? Damn.
Today Strike Watch addresses some odds and ends as we prepare to leave for Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (a k a "Riviera on the Hudson") for a long holiday weekend: Issue #1: Those who support AFTRA's broadcast prime-time TV contract only slightly...
Todd Brogan of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has brought our attention to the Damon Runyon Broadway Tickets service, which offers a limited selection of four to six seats for over two dozen Broadway performances. The service offers theatre-goers...
Collective: Unconscious, the lower Manhattan group dedicate to experimental and alternative theatre, will close its doors for good when the lease on its Tribeca home expires on July 31. According to a press release, "The decision comes on the heels...
No, it doesn't really make any sense. Hellboy is a comic book character, not an actor. True, he's got a new movie in theatres this summer -- but this brief Inside the Actors Studio interview with host James Lipton isn't...
Culled from the hundreds of casting and job notices listed daily on BackStage.com, below are this week's audition highlights for the West Coast, organized by the day the auditions are being held. To find the full details for each of...
We've declared Oscar season unofficially open, with "Wall-E" firing the first shot across the bow, and we've also noted that there's been precious little Hollywood output so far this year that's been awards worthy. But maybe we missed something? A...
She single-handedly juiced "Desperate Housewives" to a level that made us actually want to watch it again. Granted, much of her storyline was serious, what with the spousal abuse and murder and all. But we must ask for all the...
The buzz is near deafening at this point, and there's much talk of Emmys for "Mad Men" and its cast. The AMC-defining drama already has picked up two Golden Globes (one for best drama and one for John Hamm as...
We're sensing a full-scale snub of the cast of "The Tudors," and that's making us very unhappy. Off with somebody's head! Sure, people criticized the Showtime drama for being talky and complicated, but it had copious amounts of sex, betrayal,...
The ESPY awards are all about sports and its finest purveyors, evidenced by the nominations, announced today, of such standouts as Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Super Bowl champs the New York Giants and Nascar darling Danica Patrick. So, why are...
