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| Turnabouts of Toronto
Back Stage profiles breakout actors at this year's Toronto Film Festival, including Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married) and Kat Dennings (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist).
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| Without Limits
Debra Winger's life has enough stories to fill a dozen movies. She has a story about overcoming adversary, a great discovery story, and a tale with a surprise twist.
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| Who's the Boss?
Last fall David H. Lawrence XVII made a bold decision. He left behind the successful syndicated radio show and started his own voiceover demo reel business.
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| Working It
Megan Hilty was playing the role of Galinda in Wicked when her boyfriend told her a musical was being made of the comedy 9 to 5 and that she was the perfect person to play Doralee Rhodes.
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| Mining the Store
Enrico Colantoni was once a New York actor, struggling to make ends meet. He has also been an L.A. actor, starring in Just Shoot Me! and Veronica Mars. But recently he got the hankering to return to his hometown: Toronto.
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| Eye of the Beholder
When actor Kito Robinson first started submitting herself for roles, she had no particular strategy in mind; she just followed the rules. Or what she perceived as the rules, anyway.
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| Type Righters
Originally from Chicago, African-American actor Nicole J. Butler moved to Los Angeles 10 years ago. She now enjoys an acting career in which she seldom plays roles that stereotype African Americans.
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| Vive La Difference
Many specialized segments of our society don't reflect the population's full range of racial and ethnic diversity, but the dance world is certainly not one of them.
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| 'Small Craft Warnings' Brings Big Ideas
How does a 21st-century director improve upon the work of one of the greatest 20th-century playwrights? By honoring what the writer wanted in the first place.
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| 'Ugly Betty' in the Big Apple
To celebrate Ugly Betty's transplantation from Los Angeles to New York, a huge block party was held on the street in Jackson Heights where the show's fictional Suarez family lives.
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| 'Tempest' Tossed
For seven months Patinkin has enjoyed a luxury afforded very few actors: He's done little but prepare to play perplexing Prospero, in this case for Classic Stage Company's Off-Broadway production of The Tempest.
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Get Schooled: TRU Education Panel
October 06, 2008
Theater Resources Unlimited and Back Stage are pleased to announce a special industry and networkng panel, on creating and funding education programs, on Wed., Oct. 22.
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