Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 380 pages
- Published by: Back Stage Books November 22, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0823078809
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0823078806
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Book Description
The Back Stage Guide to Working in Regional Theater is a coast-to-coast overview of opportunities awaiting theater practitioners in every discipline. Culled from interviews with America's top theater professionals, this resource offers job-search and career-planning strategies, as well as detailed information on over 1,000 places to work in the American theater, including regional companies, Shakespeare festivals, touring theaters, university/resident theaters, youth and children's theaters, and outdoor theaters. Richly detailed with behind-the-scenes stories of the regional movement that many say saved American theater, this single volume is an indispensable tool at every stage of your career.
About The Author
Jim Volz is a national arts consultant, author, producer, and professor at California State University, Fullerton. He is a longtime critic/columnist for New York's
Back Stage and editor of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America's
Quarto. He is the author of
How to Run a Theater: A Witty, Practical and Fun Guide to Arts Management and
Shakespeare Never Slept Here.
Reader Reviews
In addition to his wise advice and tips to surviving the crazy world of professional theater, in this book, Jim has eliminated all of the hard work and research that it usually takes to find a job in regional theater. He has compiled lists and information on virtually every U.S. and Canadian theater company, theater festival, dinner theater--you name it. This book is a tremendous investment that performance arts professionals will use again and again throughout their careers. As a former theater student and now a young professional, I have found that this book, as well as Jim's other works, serves as a valuable reference that never seems to collect dust on my bookshelf!
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