stage management

Explains the role stage managers play in high school stage productions, describing how they help the actors, director, crew, and house manager ensure the show runs smoothly.

Explains the many responsibilities of a stage manager, and how effective a stage manager organizes the crew so that everything runs smoothly.

Provides an adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" which can be produced in thirty minutes; and includes stage directions, character suggestions, and a set and prop list.

A guide for middle and high school, college, and community theaters that provides solutions to the most common and complex stage and crew problems and an overview of the nuts and bolts of putting a show together and turning backstage workers into the perfect stage crew.