In addition, the print publication and website publishes contact information for talent agents, managers, and casting directors.

Young actors, singers and dancers looking for work on stage and screen would seek out the newspaper for its exclusive content of jobs and casting information, which was difficult to come by at the time.

The advent of a casting publication as a means of bringing job information directly to actors was a boon to performers trying to break into the business.

In the early years of Show Business, actors such as Lauren Bacall and Kirk Douglas would help distribute copies of the publication by selling them at Sardi's and other establishments in the theater district.

Pearlstein expanded Show Business by adding new sections to the paper, creating live events and producing its first website: www.showbusinessweekly.com Alan Parker's 1980 film Fame, which follows students of New York's High School of Performing Arts, features characters reading Show Business.