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BACKSTAGE HUMOR! What It's Like To Be A Stagehand If you're not exactly sure what a stagehand is, please read this page for an in-depth (and very funny) definition.
"I once had to explain to someone what, exactly, a stagehand was. I told her that I worked in theatres as a technician who put up sets and lighting for various stage productions. She was thinking that a "stagehand" was someone who rode stagecoaches holding a Winchester in their lap to guard against ambush while saying things like, "Aw, shucks, ma'am, t'weren't nuthin'..." ... A very old stagehand named Bill Jensen once told me that stagework was "90% common sense". The problem is, he never taught me what the other 10% was." [ Go to read the rest ]

The Ten Commandments for spotlight operators is informative and funny.

Song of the Stage Hand

Backstage.com is an informative resource for performing arts.

Stage specs on line has tons of info about theaters all over America, from grid height to green rooms.

Career : Stage Technician A Day in the Life
If you enjoy the theater, but haven’t been bitten by the acting bug, or if you enjoy working with your hands, look into a career in theater production. Stage technicians fill a variety of jobs in the theater-they are light and sound board operators, carpenters, prop handlers, production assistants, wardrobe supervisors, and stage managers. [continue]

Fog & bubbles, lighting systems, stage lights, lighting effects, lasers and more

Backstage.com Online versioin of Backstage Magazine

Stagehands (Things we often forget )

ArtsAlive.ca English Theatre is designed to uncover the behind-the-scenes world of professional English Canadian Theatre.

Talk on the following careers:
Acting, Theatre , Television, Film, Radio, Stage Management, The Stage Manager, Lighting and Sound, Scenic Artist, Prop-Maker, Scenic Construction, Wardrobe & other careers as Directors, Playwrights & Designers, and Trade Unions

THE SPOTLIGHT
Spotlight on behind-camera specialists such as directors, choreographers and stage managers and also actors and actresses, presenters, graduates, children & young performers and stunt artists.. THE SPOTLIGHT

THE [Illustrated] HISTORY OF COSTUME By Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880
These plates, printed from 1861 to 1880 in Munich, consist of illustrations of 500 costume designs from antiquity to the end of the 19th century.

Costumes: Photos of English Actors at the turn of the Twentieth Century

Costume Construction Tips
"Or Everything you ever wanted to know about costume construction and wish someone had told you ten years ago, damnit." These pages are a compendium of information you can use to help the making of your Renaissance costume go a little smoother.

Costuming Resources Online The Costume Page is a personal library of costume and costuming-related links. for the benefit of those who study and/or make costumes: costumers, students, historical re-enactors, science fiction fans, professionals, amateurs, dancers, theatrical costumers, trick-or-treaters, writers, researchers, and all those interested in fashion, textile art, and costume history.

Burman Industries caters to special effects make-up, mold/ model making, puppetry and animatronics professionals. Burman Industries ALSO offers on-site technical workshops at our store:	Naimie’s Beauty Center . A state-of-the-art 20,000 square-foot full-service facility providing an impressive array of beauty-oriented products and services to the entertainment industry and to the public .. make-up, pros-aide, sponges, Reel blood, 355 adhesive, GM foam, Burman foam.
Carter Sexton Art supplies & Equipment, Liquitex, Roma, airbrush, excellent sculpting tools and art books, WED clay.