Filled with hands-on demonstrations and real world tips for students, this 2nd Edition will have your students running shows like professionals in no time!

A new Overview Section identifies just what a stage manager does, from pre-show conferences to closing night in Limited, Touring, and Extended runs. Detailed sections illustrate rehearsal skills like Taping the Stage, making Prompt Books and Calling Scripts, using Blocking and Cueing Shorthand, Production Meetings, and other tricks of the trade.

Another New Section on Communication addresses when to use Electronic Media, and when to communicate face-to-face. Focuses on Technical Rehearsals and Performances, including pre-show Protocol, how to actually Call a Show, and how to avoid, prepare for, and, when necessary, handle Common Problems.

More New Sections include: Maintaining a Show, Touring and Extended Runs, Stage Managing Musicals, and Careers in Stage Management.

HOSTS:

Tom Martin has been a professional Director, Stage and Production Manager, and Associate Producer for the last 35 years. He has worked extensively at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, and is on the theatre faculty at St. Louis University.

J. Jason Daunter is a New York based professional stage manager whose Broadway and National Touring stage management credits include the Broadway Blockbuster Wicked, Cyrano de Bergerac (starring Kevin Kline), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Chicago, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Both Tom and Jason are proud members of Actors Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers.