Which is tougher: acting on stage or acting on screen?

Thanks for the interesting A2A! They pose different challenges, and which one is tougher depends on which you have more experience with. Screen acting is much more technical. Because of the placement and movement of the camera(s), the actor has mu... read more

In general, in my experience, it is easier for a stage actor to transition to screen than for a screen actor to transition to stage, which is why classical acting training is based in stage work, and why I think stage acting is more challenging. read more

In screen acting, the camera is almost always on the person talking, not on the person listening, and certainly not on anyone else in the vicinity. So our stage actors have to learn that acting includes listening and reacting to what’s happening onstage. read more

The second major difference between stage and camera acting is the familiarity of the material. Theater is by its very nature repetitive and therefore familiar. When a play takes hold and becomes popular, it is put on by company after company, night after night, all over the world. That repetition creates an iconoclastic image of the story. read more