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Guidance and insights tailored specifically to actors, encompassing audition tips, career development strategies, performance techniques, and industry insights to empower and support aspiring and professional actors alike.

Keep Calm and Embrace Your Type

To know your type as an actor is to understand your strengths and how others perceive them. Read more about one actor's challenge to embrace his type.

I Left My Heart in Summer Stock

Summer stock theatre can fuel a career faster than any class, seminar, or resume credit. Read about summer stock from the design point of view.

A Little Perspective

As an actor understudying a role, you can't wait to go on...or can you? Get a little perspective with this new StageAgent blog post.

Performing Arts High School Auditions: First Steps

Applying to get into performing arts high schools can lead to big smiles or lots of tears. Read how to prepare your child--and yourself--for this process.

No Summer Gig...No Big Deal

What if you’re not doing summer stock? What if you’re in the City (or elsewhere) for the summer, not necessarily performing? Read about your options here.

An Ode to Summer Stock

Summer stock is hard. Some actors do it once and never pursue it again. Read one blogger's thoughts on the highs and lows of stock theatre.

Acting by the Number$: Can Theatre Pay the Bills?

Acting on stage is your passion, but remember all the times someone told you that “there’s no money in theatre”? Read one blogger's insights on the topic.

Surviving Tax Season as an Artist

When you work as an artist, tax season blows. Check out these custom tips for artists to successfully complete your taxes and get that refund!

The Hearts of Monsters: Why We Need to Play Villains

What does it take to play a villain? Can there actually be value in becoming -- for a time -- a "bad guy"?

Michael Chekhov: A Crash Course in Psycho-Physical Acting

You probably know his uncle, but how familiar are you with the actor and practitioner Michael Chekhov? Find out more about Chekhov and psycho-physical acting.

How to Help Your Director Carry Out His or Her Vision

A stage director needs a ton of support to carry out his/her vision. Here are the key people who need to help the director guide a show to success.

The Art and Importance of Asking for Feedback

The best actors know how to listen to the feedback they are given and then act on it.