For example, you can read through the (handwritten!) cue script for the original Broadway “West Side Story” or compare this cue script with this one for “A Raisin in the Sun.” ...

Off in the wings, stage managers coordinate cast and crew, calling hundreds of cues during Broadway performances. They may not win Tony Awards, but without them, not even the curtain would go up.

On June 30, the Alliance Theater in Atlanta announced that Shaina Pierce, a Black graduate of the University of Alabama, would be their first holder of a new fellowship for BIPOC stage managers.