Keilly McQuail and FringeNYC’s “Ghost of Dracula”

For those of you bemoaning yet another Sunday come and gone — and six days left to the next sex-and-skin True Blood episode — put on some Manhattan walking shoes and check showstopper Keilly McQuail and the brilliant cast of Ghost of Dracula as they perform, holy water and all, for what ActorBean.com considers FringeNYC’s [...]

Powerhouse 12-Year-Old Andy Scott Harris Talks Life, Pursuit, and Method

We always lament not catching up and interviewing the stars “before” it all happens. Tom Cruise before Top Gun, Brad Pitt before 21 Jump Street, Johnny Depp prior to Nightmare. This week we catch up with Andy Scott Harris, a blue-eyed young up-and-comer — recently seen with Tom Hanks in Angels & [...]

Nivedita Kulkarni on Comedy, Method, and The Sex Lives of Disney Princesses

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There’s quite a bit of “funny” out there in the world right now. Chris Rock, for one. The idea of Taylor Luther and Hillary Duff mating, for two. And Nivedita Kulkarni playing a starved-for-sexual-attention version of Pocohontas in her highly acclaimed UCB show, The Sex Lives of Disney Princesses.
We recently had [...]

Twilight Director Chris Weitz Trades Bad Acting for Real Film

Wow. Chris Weitz has chosen quality acting over a multi-billion dollar film empire.
The not-a-household-name yet director, who was made almost famous by his fantastic directing in Twilight (we can’t blame the acting of Stewart or Luther on him, now), has decided to step away in favor of a small, minimally funded film about a Mexican [...]

Redefining Talent : Bridget Megan Clark

With credits like Doubt, Rescue Me, Ugly Betty, and Michael & Michael Have Issues (plus, she’s rumored to be attached to the Next Evolution Productions pilot Circle of Eight) one would think they’d be looking at the resume laundry list of someone age… 25, 30, 50…
Not quite.  Following recent television trends, younger and younger actors [...]

Lights Up for the New York Theatre Barn

Amidst a flurry of rehearsal schedules, meetings, and various other producer-esque duties — Joe Barros of the New York Theatre Barn sat down to giveBackstage a glimpse of what is transpiring with the young theater company, a fast-becoming powerhouse in New York’s musical theater scene.’
The affable young director recently took over as Producing Artistic Director [...]

“Captain America” Holds Auditions : Chace Crawford, John Krasinski Screentest

Over-inflated actor ego alert — even established actors have to screen test, sometimes.
Marvel comics and Joe Johnson are getting down to the wire with whom they’ll soon be selecting to play the real man version of the fabled comic character Captain America. Chace Crawford, John Krasinski, Mike Vogel, and Michael Cassidy are a few [...]

The Life of An Actor (As Imagined By A Nonactor)

When I was in college a professor was trying to explain to a room full of bored students how the ancient Greeks related to their gods. “It’s hard for us to understand,” he intoned pompously. “The Greeks worshipped their gods, as we do ours, but they also laughed at them. They mocked and ridiculed them. [...]