http://showbusinessweekly.com/articles.sec-9-1-questions-answers.htmlMelissa Caolo, managing director of Camp Broadway, recently spoke with Show Business about the Gershwin Awards and where they are heading.]]>From its humble but ambitious origins in 2004 as a showcase for budding tuners, the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has emerged as the go-to event for top-notch musical theater creators.]]>An Evening of Awkward Romance, a new play from the actress and playwright Wendy Herlich, introduces a collection of oddball characters on their quest to find love. ]]>For more than 60 years, actors have turned to the Stella Adler Studio of Acting for theater training that teaches the acting philosophy of its renowned founder. ]]>This year, Skidmore College celebrates two decades of collaboration with the SITI Company.]]>Opening in March, Brother Russia is set in a desolate potato field north of Omsk, where a fourth-rate theater troupe sets up tents and wows the local farmers with rock-fueled adaptations of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. ]]>Andrew Gerle, a classical pianist who studied music at Yale University before becoming a professional accompanist, has a unique perspective when it comes to casting for musical theater.]]>Ever wonder what it’s like to have more than 10,000 people follow you? Sure, celebrities and large corporations might be used to that, but what if you were anonymous? ]]>Once upon a time, actress Sandy Faison landed a dream role, originating the part of Grace Farrell in the 1977 Broadway production of Annie. Now, she’s helping a new generation of performers make their dreams come true as the technical theater coordinator at LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts.]]>The New York Musical Theatre Festival burst on to the scene just seven years ago, but the event quickly made a name for itself.]]>It’s difficult to describe Vy Higginsen without using the word "pioneer." She was the first woman to host a morning show on New York radio, the first woman to work in advertising sales at Ebony magazine, and the first black woman to produce a drama on Broadway.]]>The last five years have been kind to 12-year-old Carly Rose Sonenclar, who starred in the Broadway revival of Les Miserables and the recent but short-lived Wonderland.]]>One year after scoring Tony and Drama Desk nominations for his work on Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play, the costume and set designer David Zinn is busier than ever.]]>Stevens returns to the boards this season as the producer and director of Ghetto Klown, John Leguizamo’s latest autobiographical solo piece.]]>Noah Robbins knows a thing or two about starting early. By the age of 11, he was already acting in children’s shows at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., about 20 miles from his hometown of Potomac, Md.]]>Nick Stafford’s War Horse, which transfers to Lincoln Center from London’s West End this month, employs the use of life-sized horse puppets designed by the Handspring Puppet Company, an international company founded in 1981 by four graduates of South Africa’s Michaelis School of Fine Art. ]]>Like most people who toil away in the gritty recesses of off-off-Broadway, Frank Kuzler isn’t all that concerned with fame and fortune. The New York playwright and filmmaker — and former manager o]]> The West Village’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has made a name for itself as a nurturing environment for emerging artists who are willing to create challenging work. Now in its 16th season]]> The renowned fight director B.H. Barry has worked on more than 40 Broadway shows, 84 off-Broadway shows, nine feature films and 19 productions with the Metropolitan Opera. Last year, he was awar]]> Melissa Ross’s Thinner Than Water, the latest production from the LAByrinth Theater Company, looks at the precarious ties that bind one fractured family in the midst of a crisis. The new drama]]>