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Casting is underway for the second season of the Amazon psychological thriller series “We Were Liars.” U.S. and Canada-based female actors, aged 18 or older, are sought to play the 18-year-old ...

SAG-AFTRA ratified its latest TV/Theatrical Agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in November 2023, following almost four months of striking and intense negotiations.

The beauty of film as art is that it contains a variety of forms. It can be a fictional, narrative story that springs out of the imagination of a writer, or a documentary that details historical ...

Look closely at the Golden Age of Hollywood, and you’ll see the darker, more complicated layers beneath all that glitz and glamour. The era coincided with the Motion Picture Production Code, also ...

Nostalgia is all the rage these days; that’s why a ton of movies and TV shows are reboots or remakes of what was popular in the 1980s and ’90s. Normally, this walk down memory lane is meant to delight ...

You’ve likely heard of the male gaze, the concept coined by British film theorist Laura Mulvey in her 1973 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In her writing, she notes that the “male gaze ...

Creating a résumé as an actor can be a source of unnecessary stress. After all, it can feel like the wrong choice might make or break your chance at nabbing a dream role. Luckily, we’ve broken down ...

Method acting is a style of performance that urges actors to embody their characters thoroughly—not just while onstage or on set, but often extending into their everyday lives. The technique, ...

The lore behind Ariana Grande’s lifelong pursuit of “Wicked” feels as much like a fairy tale as “Wicked” itself. The adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s revisionist prequel to “The Wizard of Oz”—existing ...

No actor is ready without the proper warmup. To deliver a great performance, you must be in full command of your body and voice—and acting exercises are an important first step. Even a brief practice ...