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Tuesday, May 15,2012

Big Night for Big Apple Theater Students

Honoring the best in local high school musical theater at the Gershwin Awards

Melissa Caolo, managing director of Camp Broadway, recently spoke with Show Business about the Gershwin Awards and where they are heading.
Friday, February 10,2012

Singles Going Steady

A new play looks at the universal awkwardness of love just in time for Valentine’s Day

An Evening of Awkward Romance, a new play from the actress and playwright Wendy Herlich, introduces a collection of oddball characters on their quest to find love.
Wednesday, February 1,2012

Turning Up the Heat

Stella Adler’s director of marketing talks summer intensives and the importance of starting young

For more than 60 years, actors have turned to the Stella Adler Studio of Acting for theater training that teaches the acting philosophy of its renowned founder.
Wednesday, February 1,2012

Relaxed But Intense

SITI Company talks about what students need to do to succeed in a fast-paced summer intensive at Skidmore College

This year, Skidmore College celebrates two decades of collaboration with the SITI Company.
Friday, November 18,2011

Riffing on Rasputin

A grant from the Edgerton Foundation helps a local composer tune up his satire of Russian history

Opening in March, Brother Russia is set in a desolate potato field north of Omsk, where a fourth-rate theater troupe sets up tents and wows the local farmers with rock-fueled adaptations of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
Thursday, November 3,2011

The Mad Piano Man

A self-professed enraged accompanist talks about what it takes to pull off a successful musical theater audition

Andrew Gerle, a classical pianist who studied music at Yale University before becoming a professional accompanist, has a unique perspective when it comes to casting for musical theater.
Friday, August 19,2011

Zooming In on the Anonymous

BroadwaySpotted, the self-proclaimed “Gossip Girl of Broadway”, discusses the power of social media, being a role model, and, most importantly… free theater tickets

Ever wonder what it’s like to have more than 10,000 people follow you? Sure, celebrities and large corporations might be used to that, but what if you were anonymous?
Friday, June 3,2011

Where Young Actors Learn How to Fly

The movie 'Fame' made this public high school famous for its candid look at what it takes to make it as a performer in New York

Once upon a time, actress Sandy Faison landed a dream role, originating the part of Grace Farrell in the 1977 Broadway production of Annie. Now, she’s helping a new generation of performers make their dreams come true as the technical theater coordinator at LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts.
Wednesday, June 1,2011

The First Lady of Theater

Vy Higginsen, a pioneer of publishing, radio and theater, talks about the challenges young actors face in the theater business today

It’s difficult to describe Vy Higginsen without using the word "pioneer." She was the first woman to host a morning show on New York radio, the first woman to work in advertising sales at Ebony magazine, and the first black woman to produce a drama on Broadway.
Thursday, May 26,2011

The ‘Wonder’ Years

A Broadway tween star talks about the importance of starting early

The last five years have been kind to 12-year-old Carly Rose Sonenclar, who starred in the Broadway revival of Les Miserables and the recent but short-lived Wonderland.
 
 
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