The iconic Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin and John Lennon’s Imagine have been added to the USA Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. The recordings added to the registry are defined “as audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound […]
Kim Hudman is an Australian singer, dancer and actor based in the USA. She has performed around the world on cruise lines, has been the principal dancer in the Sands Casino in Macau, and spent two years as dance captain of the two most famous productions at Universal Studios Singapore in addition to performing as […]
Coachella Festival 2023 has announced the musical acts for both weekends, with tickets on sale. The California music festival will be taking place across 14 – 16 and 21 – 23 April, at the Empire Polo Club in the desert. Featuring a broad range of global artists old and new, the exciting lineup includes the […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers will release their second album this year, with a new record due to drop in a matter of weeks. The new LP collection titled Return of the Dream Canteen is available for pre-order prior to its release on 14th October, and comes swiftly after their recently released album Unlimited Love, which […]
The Paul McCartney Got Back Tour kicked off with fireworks that included a virtual duet with the late John Lennon, as well as a moving tribute to bandmate George Harrison. The Beatle last played live in 2019 due to the pandemic cancelling planned dates since then, with McCartney announcing, “I said at the end of […]
Chatsworth House in Derbyshire UK is hosting a free exhibition of Burning Man sculptures. The exhibition, titled Radical Horizons: The Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth will run from April through to October 2022. The celebration of a shared culture of making and collaboration, through a large-scale exhibition of 12 monumental sculptures will be free […]
The Golden Globes 2022 nominees have been announced amid controversy from recent years affecting the ceremony with NBC pulling the broadcast.
SMA is the Stage Managers’ Association. It is an organization based in the USA. However, its International Cohort is growing as well since it began in early 2019. A “UN of Stage Manager” with currently over 25 ambassadors from 15 countries on 6 continents. On July 5, 2021, SMA Director-at-Large David J. McGraw and Editor in Chief/International Cohort Chair Hope Rose Kelly from the USA met for an online discussion with SMA International Cohort Ambassador Anna Robb in Hong Kong. Together, they compared the work conditions of Stage Managers working in both regions and around the world. Drawing on their own experiences as stage manager as well as looking at a 2019 survey, their findings are profound and of imminent importance. We are sharing the highlights of their discussion in an article series of 4 parts. This is part 4.
SMA is the Stage Managers’ Association. It is an organization based in the USA. However, its International Cohort is growing as well since it began in early 2019. A “UN of Stage Manager” with currently over 25 ambassadors from 15 countries on 6 continents. On July 5, 2021, SMA Director-at-Large David J. McGraw and Editor in Chief/International Cohort Chair Hope Rose Kelly from the USA met for an online discussion with SMA International Cohort Ambassador Anna Robb in Hong Kong. Together, they compared the work conditions of Stage Managers working in both regions and around the world. Drawing on their own experiences as stage manager as well as looking at a 2019 survey, their findings are profound and of imminent importance. We are sharing the highlights of their discussion in an article series of 4 parts. This is part 1.
People from all over the world flock to America with bright eyes and hearts full of dreams in order to pursue a career in the performing arts. You may have seen a foreign actor up on a Broadway stage, in a national TV commercial, or in the hottest new Netflix series.
Applying for US visitor and work visas in recent years has not been a simple process for international artists. In the pre-covid world, most cited lots of complicated documentation and high fees as the main difficulties, and the numerous issues of organising work in the USA from the UK has been one thing many won’t have missed during the pandemic. As we look ahead to 2021 on the brink of the Biden Administration taking the reins, Tamizdat in New York spoke to the Musicians’ Union in the UK about what the future might look like. Tamizdat are a nonprofit organisation for international cultural mobility and exchange.
Social distancing has brought drive-in shows back to the world in a retro resurgence. Across the Arts, companies are all planning new ways to hold events.
Many moons ago, at my college orientation, I opened my first bank account with First Union bank. I made this decision after much careful research. J/K. They had a booth at orientation and an ATM on campus. Done and done.
These days Casting Directors often ask actors to bring in their own material to at least one night of their workshops or showcases. And, if you ‘re lucky enough to get a meeting with an agent who wants to see some work, you’ll have to be ready with material. My clients often ask me where to find material and how to choose. You want to be seen in the best light possible, right? You want to be very well-prepared and read something you’re actually right for…but how do you know what material will suit you?
What can we do as lighting professionals to save lives in an emergency situation?
It is with the heaviest of hearts that I write the hardest article I have ever written. I would much rather write an opinion piece on my feelings about rainbow chases and load-in puppy play days.
In the fall of 2014, I began my “no more traditional acting classes” journey. I wish I remembered why I made this choice, but I can only guess. “Was I tired of crying each week?” “Was I happy that I finally kind of knew how to act and wanted to try for new horizons?” “Did I feel like I needed to be a more, well-rounded performer?” “Did I feel completely useless as a person and wanted to have something else to offer other than I may know how to learn lines a little?” All of the above?
As you have no doubt heard, a mass shooting occurred at an open-air music festival in Las Vegas. So many of the people working in entertainment have ties to Vegas – here’s how you can help.
I trained as an Actor and found much to my disgust that while most companies claim to want to find new and fresh talent all they really want at the end of the day is just a performer. By performer, I mean someone who will just rehash what the last artist before them did.
We live our lives at 100mph and, in a world where even coffee can be mobile-ordered, the need for human interaction is fading into oblivion. Being busy is all the rage and since, according to the laws of attraction, we all live the life we want, many of us are attracted to a life of stress; of living at speed.
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