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My worst theatre injurys include:1st semester at college my tech director ran a 4x8 platform pit cover into my foot bent my toes back. that was fun......This year within the last month and a half. I have pneumatically nailed my middle finger on my left hand. The nail went into the skin the...

I am currently the stage manager for a college production of "Noises Off". We just opened this weekend. Here is how my set works. We have a main unit that consists of the upstairs and the down stairs. then we have three sets of stairs that come off of the main unit. Two stairs for backstage and...

Thanks everyone for the responses. I will keep those in mind. I did figure something out and I figured I would share it so that it might help someone else down the line. What I am doing is using an extra script that I have and taking the line notes in that. At the end of the night I am going to...

I am stage managing the show Noises Off for my college and I was wondering if there are any productive ways to take line notes and distribute them to the cast. If you know the show it is quite line heavy. I just don't think that I am using a productive method. What I am doing is typing up the...

I am at Valparaiso University in Indiana. Thanks for the reply. I was refering to the fixture with Leko written on the side of it.

This might sound really stupid but I honestly don't know the answer. What is the difference between a Lee Colortran and a Leko. At the first theatre I worked at we had Leko's and now the theatre I am at we have Lee Colortrans. I am assuming that they are the same thing but just a different brand...

So this is not really on topic, but it is about casters, dont buy silent casters, they are not silent, the squeak terribly. We had 4 rolling platforms with them on it and well they dont work.

One of the hardest changes, well there are many. But we are using rolling wagons, so they are going to have to be locked down no matter what and they have flats as walls as well. But there are two on stage, one is up stage right and the other is down stage left and they have to both come off and...

I am in college right now and I am the ASM and well I asumed that I would be taking on the duties that you all mentioned. Well I am actually running crew. Me and one other ASM are suppoesed to do all set changes and everything. That is not what I assumed I would be doing. I don't mind it but I...

What is your defination of an assistant stage manager, what do they do? What are some tasks that they take on? Just let me know because I was apparently led to believe they do somthing else.

Hey, I love the site, But i was just wondering where are good tech theatre schools. I am currently attending Valparaiso University as a freshman. I chose there for meteorology my junior year of high school. I changed my major over the summer and now i want to do tech theatre or stage management...