Question: The Back Stage Garland Awards — also referred to simply as the Garland Awards, and known as the Back Stage West Garland Awards from 1998 to 2008 — were bestowed by which entertainment-industry newspaper brand aimed at people working in film and the performing arts, with a special focus on casting, job opportunities, and career advice?

Context articles: Association of Performing Arts Presenters
Rogue Machine Theatre
Backstage (magazine)
Talent community
Hum Awards pre-show
Tait Memorial Trust
Canadian Job Bank
Alex Schemmer
After Dark (Type O Negative album)
Back Stage Garland Awards

The Association of Performing Arts Professionals (Previously the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, also known as APAP), based in Washington, D.C., is the United States national service, advocacy and membership organization for the performing arts presenting sector and the convener of APAP|NYC, the world’s leading gathering of performing arts professionals, every January in New York City.
 Through professional development programs and member services, APAP provides opportunities for artists, agents and managers, presenters, and producers to make the connections and gain the information, skills, and resources they need to make the arts a vibrant, valuable and sustainable part of everyday life.
 APAP supports and educates today’s and tomorrow’s performing arts leaders.
Rogue Machine Theatre (RMT) is a Los Angeles based theatre company dedicated to the production of new plays and plays new to Los Angeles.
 They currently run a seven- to eight-month season at The MET Theatre in Hollywood.
 The founding Artistic Director is John Perrin Flynn.
 Since its foundation in 2008, RMT has won multiple awards, including an Ovation Award for excellence in theatre, LA Weekly Theater Awards and Back Stage Garland Awards.
 In 2008, Terry Morgan at Variety (magazine) described RMT as "one of the most ambitious and accomplished theatre companies in LA".
Backstage (aka Back Stage) is an entertainment-industry brand aimed at people working in film and the performing arts, with a special focus on casting, job opportunities, and career advice.
A talent community is a method of social recruiting, by relying on the collection of social cliques (or talent networks) of people that are part of the job seeking process.
 These people may be seeking a job themselves, offering career advice to others, recruitment professionals, college campus recruiters, sourcers, and friends seeking jobs or advice.
 Talent communities operate through two-way interaction between community members.
 A talent community is not a list of candidates on a web page or in a spreadsheet, it is an environment consisting of people who can share ideas for the purpose of career networking or social recruiting of candidates.
 Employers can interact and communicate with prospective employees as well as inform candidates about employment opportunities, receive referrals, and handpick qualified individuals from inside the group.
 A talent community can include prospective candidates, past applicants, current employees, and past employees.
 Talent communities are managed by recruiters and/or hiring managers.
The Hum Awards pre-show (currently known as Hum Awards Red Carpet) and Making of Hum Awards are recorded televised pre-shows where former precedes the start of the Hum Awards telecast by 37 minutes and latter, two days prior to ceremony respectively.
 The pre-show takes place on the red carpet surrounding the theater which holds the telecast, and is almost always hosted by various media personalities, while making of award ceremony introduced the back stage performances, rehearsals, managements and making of stage of ceremony before the event.
 The latter event is not necessary to be recorded and shown every year.
The Tait Memorial Trust [TMT] is a charitable foundation, first established in the United Kingdom, with the chief purpose of providing financial support to outstanding young Australian performing artists who wish to pursue post-graduate studies in leading performing arts institutions or privately with internationally recognised teachers in the United Kingdom.
 It also offers performance opportunities in their many concerts and events in London and advice and mentoring to awardees.
 The TMT was founded by Isla Baring OAM in memory of her father, Sir Frank Tait and his brothers, who played such an important part in the establishment of theatre and the performing arts in Australia.
 Sir Frank Tait's management, who being the youngest of the Tait brothers, carried the firm JC Williamson's into their most successful years dominated by the Sutherland-Williamson opera company in 1965 which brought Dame Joan Sutherland back to her homeland.
The Job Bank is maintained by Service Canada as one repository of employment opportunities in Canada.
 Employers may advertise jobs on the Job Bank; anyone may search the Job Bank for job opportunities.
 This site also provides access to a variety of other Canadian government and commercial employment services, including the comprehensive Working in Canada .
Alex Schemmer (born June 17, 1981) is an American actor and writer.
 Schemmer has been featured in network shows "Dexter", "What About Brian", "", "House", "Cougar Town" and "Big Love".
 He also starred in the film "The Yellow Wallpaper".
 Alex made an appearance on "iCarly" as Wade Collins, a rude British contestant on "America Sings".
 In 2008 Alex had a recurring role in "Days of Our Lives" as Les.
 He played Alex on Take180's series In2ition.
 He appeared as Romeo in Shakespeare Orange County's production of Romeo and Juliet and was honored at the Back Stage Garland Awards for Best Ensemble Performance in Thrill Me with Stewart Calhoun.
 As a writer he has written the film Responsible Adults with Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford attached to star.
After Dark is a VHS/DVD release by the band Type O Negative, which was released in 1998 and 2000 (VHS and DVD respectively).
 This video contains live footage of the band performing on stage, back stage antics, music videos, and cynical humor.
 It also features an onstage food fight/altercation with the heavy metal band Pantera.
The Back Stage Garland Awards — also referred to simply as the Garland Awards, and known as the Back Stage West Garland Awards from 1998 to 2008 — were bestowed by the entertainment-industry newspaper "Backstage", honoring excellence in Southern California theatre.
 The awards recognize many different types of contributors to theatre, including actors, directors, producers, prop makers, set designers, costume designers, and choreographers.