Arts / Performing arts

Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing

by Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi & Monique Arav

"Come, sit by me," says Grandmother. "Take this chalk in your hand. Now draw a dot and concentrate all your energy into this one dot. It is the beginning and the end, the navel of the world."

So Fawzia Al-Rawi...

Come Dance With Me: A Memoir 1898-1956

by Ninette de Valois

Ninette de Valois, the world-famous prima ballerina, was born Edris Stannus in 1898 and raised at Baltiboys in County Wicklow. In this autobiography, first published in 1957 and now appearing in a new paperback...

Three Films

by Paul Auster

From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster's novels have earned him a reputation as "one of American's most spectacularly inventive writers." Here, published together for the first time,...

Stage Fright: 40 Stars Tell You How They Beat America's #1 Fear

by Mick Berry & Michael Edelstein

Never before has the problem of stage fright been so eloquently examined; 40 interviews with some of the most highly-accomplished public figures shed light on this affliction, offering tips from their own experiences...

Hellraisers

by Robert Sellers

The Boozy Biography of the Four Greatest Actors to Ever Walk--Or Stagger--Into a Pub.  Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole, and Oliver Reed: On screen they were stars. Off screen they were legends!...

Everything Is Cinema

by Richard Brody

A landmark biography explores the crucial resonances among the life, work, and times of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age

When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of...

Theatre

by David Mamet

If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, “many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical.” As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre,...

The History Boys: The Film

by Alan Bennett & Nicholas Hytner

Now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures, The History Boys: The Film contains Alan Bennett's diary of the filming, the shooting script, and an introduction by director Nicholas Hytner, as well...

Before the Parade Passes By

by John Anthony Gilvey

During the Golden Age of the Broadway musical, few director-choreographers could infuse a new musical with dance and movement in quite the way Gower Champion could. From his earliest Broadway success with Bye...

You Oughta Be Me

by Bud E. Luv

You Oughta Be Me: How to Be a Lounge Singer and Live Like One is the hilarious guide to becoming a lounge singer, by none other than Bud E. Luv—lounge singer extraordinaire. Learn how to properly croon into...

Intro to Screenwriting

by Sally J. Walker

Many would like to explore screenwriting's unique creative form, but do not have access to formal programs. This book explains how fundamental storytelling principles apply to visual film-making then marches...

Romantic Screenplays 101

by Sally J. Walker

The romance fiction industry thrives on relationship storytelling that titillates, enthralls, satisfies its aficionados.  Here is a book that translates the principles of romantic fiction and research into...

How to Sell Your Screenplay: The Real Rules of Film and Television

by Carl Sautter

An Emmy Award nominee and former Moonlighting story editor gives smart, timely inside information on how to successfully market a film or TV screenplay in this handy guide. Abridged edition.

Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard

by Ben Crystal

Who's afraid of William Shakespeare? Just about everyone. He wrote too much and what he did write is inacessible and elitist. Right? Wrong. Ben Crystal, the 'Jamie Oliver of Shakespeare' (BBD Radio 5), sweeps...

Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

by Nick Newlin

"A master at engaging students in the process of performing a Shakespearescene."—Janet Field-Pickering, head of education, Folger Shakespeare Library

The Tempest: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

by Nick Newlin

"A truly fun, emotional, and sometimes magical first experience . . . guided by a sagacious, knowledgeable, and intuitive educator."—Library Journal

A Brief Guide to James Bond

by Nigel Cawthorne

The world's fascination with Bond is unstoppable. James Bond is the greatest British fictional hero of the post-war era. He also has a huge following in the US - and around the world - as a legendary Cold War...

The Table Dancer's Tale

by Lupita Dominguez & Sabina C. Becker

With stories collected through years of work as a table dancer, these true tales uncover a world of night clubs filled with housewives, mothers, students, drug addicts, minors, and illegal aliens working as...

bash: latter day plays

by Neil La Bute

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Grease: Music on Film Series

by Stephen Tropiano

(Limelight). In the summer of 1978, Grease was the word. On Friday, June 16, 1978, the movie musical made a major comeback when a big-screen version of the long-running rock-and-roll stage musical, Grease ,...