Show Business Inc.
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Located in midtown Manhattan, Show Business Inc. is an entertainment-industry brand aimed at people working in film and the performing arts in New York City. Show Business publishes a weekly tabloid-sized trade magazine, a monthly digest-sized resource guide, Who’s Who in Show Business, and the annual publication, The Space Book. In addition, the company runs ShowBusinessWeekly.com.
The company’s flagship publication is Show Business newspaper, also known as Show Business Weekly, which publishes casting and audition notices as well as entertainment industry-related job information for actors, singers and dancers working in the Greater New York City area. Its editorial also includes industry news and service articles relevant to performing arts professionals.
[edit] History
Show Business newspaper was founded in 1941 as a one-sheet mimeograph that sold for 5¢ in Times Square, down the block from its original office at 1501 Broadway. It was the first and only publication of its kind that reported on job opportunities, auditions and casting calls for actors. Its popularity grew rapidly, and it soon became regarded as the industry bible for working performers and those who wanted to break into the business. To this day, the paper is microfilmed at the New York Public Library, which considers Show Business the entertainment trade paper of record.
In 1960, Show Business’ ad manager, Ira Eaker, and editor, Allen Zwerdling, left Show Business to form a competing newspaper called Back Stage. The two papers shared a bitter rivalry, which lasted until Show Business ceased publication in 1991.
With no competition left in the marketplace, independent publisher David Pearlstein recognized that the industry needed an alternative to Back Stage, which had a virtual monopoly through much of the 1990s. Pearlstein re-launched Show Business in 1999 along with its companion website, ShowBusinessWeekly.com. The combined print and online editions of Show Business has attracted a whole new audience of young readers aspiring to make it on stage and screen.
