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''Backstage'' (aka ''Back Stage'') is an entertainment-industry brand aimed at people working in film and the performing arts, with a special focus on casting, job opportunities, and career advice. ''Backstage'' publishes a full-color glossy magazine in the U.S. (''Backstage, ''also available as a digital-edition PDF publication) and a periodic digest-sized resource directory (''Call Sheet'') that cover the entertainment industry from the perspective of performers (singers, dancers, comedians, models, etc.), the performance unions (SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity Association, AGVA, AGMA, the American Federation of Musicians, etc.), casting directors, agents, writers, directors, and, in particular, actors. ''Backstage'' also publishes related newsletters, produces industry trade shows (such as (Actorfest )), and hosts various panels and screenings, along with running multiple websites, including (Backstage.com ), (Call Sheet Online ) (formerly known as RossReports.com), (The ''Backstage'' Message Boards ), (Audition Update ), and (Backstage University ). Backstage Books is an imprint of Watson-Guptill. == History == Backstage (the company) was founded by Allen Zwerdling and Ira Eaker in New York City in December 1960 as a weekly tabloid-sized newspaper called ''Back Stage'' (later renamed ''Backstage''). Zwerdling and Eaker had worked together for years as editor and advertising director, respectively, of the ''Show Business'' casting newspaper, which was founded by Leo Shull as ''Actor's Cues'' in 1941. After Zwerdling and Eaker left ''Show Business'' they looked into creating a casting section within ''The Village Voice'' newspaper; but, having been turned down, they decided to launch ''Backstage'' on their own. At the time of its founding, ''Backstage'' (the newsmagazine) was primarily a casting paper for New York actors intended to compete with ''Show Business Weekly''. It gradually broadened its scope to include coverage of New York's television commercial production industry and a variety of performing arts, the former of which proved to be so lucrative advertising-wise that the commercial-production beat came to dominate the publication. Additionally, ''Backstage's ''reach began to slowly spread across the U.S., although the largest portion of its readership remained on the East Coast. Owing to the disparity between its main areas of coverage—a focus on casting and entertainment-industry job opportunities, general coverage of the performing arts (acting, legitimate theatre, cabaret, etc.), and its expanding coverage of the commercial production market—''Backstage'' eventually incorporated the film and video production elements of its coverage into a weekly pull-out section called ''Backstage Shoot,'' a sort of mini-publication with a special focus on the commercials industry. Then, in 1975, ''Backstage'' opened a Los Angeles bureau and began to more actively extend its casting and editorial coverage across the U.S., with correspondents based in Boston, Florida, Chicago, London, and other key entertainment-industry-centric areas added to the Backstage roster over the years. Around 1977, co-founder Ira Eaker's daughter, Sherry Eaker, joined ''Backstage'' as an editor and worked to further expand ''Backstage''s editorial coverage, especially in the areas of theater criticism, cabaret, dance, union news, and advice columns for performers. Sherry Eaker also fostered a relationship between ''Backstage'' and its historical antecedent, the British-based newspaper ''The Stage'', which shared a similar look, printing schedule, and market-focus. In 1986, ''Backstage'' was bought by Billboard Publications Inc. (BPI), owner of such publications as ''Billboard (magazine)''. In 1988, BPI bought ''The Hollywood Reporter''. Backstage and ''The Hollywood Reporter'' along with a few other related brands, were grouped together within BPI, becoming its film and performing arts division, a group designed to compete with ''Variety (magazine)'' and other entertainment-industry trade publications. Backstage would become involved in a number of other acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs, and sales over the next few decades. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Backstage (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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