In his latest Caprock Chronicles feature, Chuck Lanehart shares his "confessions of a roustabout" and his personal account of ...

Breaking into show business is a dream for many aspiring actors. There are never any guarantees, of course, but training and advice from people who have gone on to professional careers can’t hurt.

Jay Torrence has a romantic view of the circus. Really, who doesn’t? What makes the Neo-Futurist ensemble member different is that he’s written a world-premiere play rooted in the notion of a circus ...

In 1918, outside Hammond, Indiana, a train accident took the lives of 86 circus performers. Many of the dead were never identified. Playwright Jay Torrence memorialized the horrific event with his ...

Back in 1964, Elvis Presley shot Roustabout, a movie in which he played a singer called Charlie Rogers, who loses his job at a coffee shop after getting into a fight with some Ivy League college boys.

The premise for The Roustabout Theatre Co.’s new comedy “Romeo, Romeo & Juliet” can be told in a nutshell: She loves him, but he loves another him. Yet despite the script’s basic love triangle plot, ...