Arts / Performing arts

An Actor's Guide to Getting Work

by Simon Dunmore

'Essential reading for any young actor' Dame Maggie Smith

Competition for acting work is fierce and talent is not necessarily enough. Actors need all the help they can get with all aspects of the profession....

Archaeologies of Presence

by Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye & Michael Shanks

Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully...

Stage Writers Handbook: A Complete Business Guide for Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Librettists

by Dana Singer

The first comprehensive guide to the business of writing for today's stage.

Breaking the Rules: The Wooster Group

by David Savran & Peter Sellars

Through interviews and descriptions of methodology, Breaking the Rules captures the essence of major works by the internationally acclaimed avant-garde company.

Culture Clash in AmeriCCa

by Culture Clash

Who needs CNN when we have Culture Clash? --Steve Winn, S. F. Chronicle

The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

by Anne Bogart & Tina Landau

First major exploration of a ground-breaking new technique for actors and theatre artists.

The Director's Voice: Twenty-One Interviews

by Arthur Bartow

Foremost stage directors describe their working process: JoAnne Akalaitis, Arvin Brown, René Buch, Martha Clarke, Gordon Davidson, Robert Falls, Zelda Fichandler, Richard Foreman, Adrian Hall, John Hirsch,...

The Philosophy of David Cronenberg

by Simon Riches

Initially regarded as a cult figure with a strong following amongst sci-fi and horror film fans, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg emerged as a major and commercially viable film director with mainstream hits...

Conversations with Anne

by Anne Bogart

Remarkable conversations you want to listen in on.

Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy

by Culture Clash

First collection from the Latino/Chicano trio Culture Clash.

The Presence of the Actor

by Joseph Chaikin

Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today. This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and...

Subscribe Now!: Building Arts Audiences Through Dynamic Subscription Promotion

by Danny Newman

"Buy it, borrow it, steal it, but get your hands on it! If you follow Danny's advice on how to sell tickets, you won't have an unsold seat in the house all season long!"--Ralph Black, American Symphony League...

Island Possessed

by Katherine Dunham

British Theatre Since the War

by Dominic Shellard

British theatre of the past fifty years has been brilliant, varied, and controversial, encompassing invigorating indigenous drama, politically didactic writing, the formation of such institutions as the National...

A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman

by Alice Kessler-Harris

Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is...

The Complete Costume Dictionary

by Elizabeth Lewandowski

Significantly greater in scope than anything currently available—online or in print—this comprehensive resource includes more than 20,000 fashion and costume terms as well as more than 300 illustrations....

A Practical Handbook for the Actor

by Melissa Bruder

6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.

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The Theatre Dictionary: British and American Terms in Drama, Opera, and Ballet

by Wilfred Granville

Wilfred Granville's Theatre Dictionary is an essential guide to the terms in British and American Drama, Opera, and Ballet, and this volume is of incomparable value for the student and practical theatre worker...

Filming Forster: The Challenges of Adapting E.M. Forster's Novels for the Screen

by Earl Ingersoll

Filming Forster focuses upon the challenges filmmakers confronted in producing film adaptations of E. M. Forster’s fiction. Working on the principle of an interactive relationship between two equally valuable...

Laban Sourcebook

by Dick McCaw

Rudolf Laban (1879 - 1958) was a pioneer in dance and movement, who found an extraordinary range of application for his ideas; from industry to drama, education and therapy.? Laban believed that you can understand...