Arts / Performing arts

James Graham

by James Graham

This country doesn’t need a constitution, never has, never will. We have History as our guide. In tough times, the British do what we have always done. We muddle through.

This House is a timely and relevant...

The A to Z of the Broadway Musical

by William A. Everett & Paul R. Laird

Since the latter part of the 19th century, the Broadway musical has remained one of the most popular genres in entertainment and its history is related in detail in The A to Z of the Broadway Musical. Through...

The A to Z of African American Theater

by Anthony D. Hill & Douglas Q. Barnett

The A to Z of African American Theater celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States, identifying representative African American theater-producing organizations and chronicling their contributions...

Rhythm Without Blues: The Dichotomy of a Music Genre

by Dr Syleecia Thompson

Synopsis: If you've ever felt the blues, sang the blues, or simply love rhythm and blues, Dr. Syleecia Thompson's tell-all book will make you appreciate this nearly 70-year-old music genre even more. This insider's...

Page to Stage: The Craft of Adaptation

by Vincent Murphy

At last, for those who adapt literature into scripts, a how-to book that illuminates the process of creating a stageworthy play. Page to Stage describes the essential steps for constructing adaptations for any...

The Dramaturgy of Senecan Tragedy

by Thomas Kohn

The first-century Roman tragedies of Seneca, like all ancient drama, do not contain the sort of external stage directions that we are accustomed to today; nevertheless, a careful reading of the plays reveals...

The Oresteia

by Aeschylus

The Oresteia (-458) by Aeschylus (525bc-456bc) and translated by E.D.A. Morshead is a trilogy of ancient Greek plays including:

- AGAMEMNON

- THE CHOEPHORI (THE LIBATION BEARERS)

- EUMENIDES

This digital edition...

Neil Jordan: Interviews

by Carole Zucker

These interviews cover the career to date of Neil Jordan (b. 1950), easily the most renowned filmmaker working in contemporary Irish cinema. Jordan began as a fiction writer, winning the distinguished Guardian...

I, Lucifer

by Gabriele Mastropaolo

He is unapologetic and smug. He has a sense of humor, and vindictive. He does not seek complacency nor pity. He has changed his mortal remains. He has been transformed: in his youth was a boer goat, in old age,...

May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970: A Play

by David Hassler

Eyewitness testimony brought to life through verbatim theaterOn May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen occupying the Kent State University campus fired 67 shots in 13 seconds, leaving four students dead. This tragedy...

Schonberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter

by Konrad Boehmer

First published in 1998

Speech for the Stage

by Evangeline Machlin

From its original publication, thousands of actors have used this classic text to develop and refine their voice and speech. Evangeline Machlin includes warm-up routines for the voice but initially focuses on...

Modern Dramatists: A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights

by Kimball King

This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.

Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance

by Ann Hutchinson Guest

Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance establishes a fresh and original framework for looking at dance. In examining the basic elements of dance - the Alphabet of Movement - and using illustrations...

New Sites For Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia

by John Russell Brown

In the course of exploring the theatrical cultures of South and East Asia, eminent Shakespeareanist John Russell Brown developed some remarkable theories about the nature of performance, the state of Western...

Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology and Goat Island

by Stephen Bottoms & Matthew Goulish

Goat Island are one of the world's leading contemporary performance ensembles. Their intimate, low-tech, intensely physical performances represent a unique hybrid of strategies and techniques drawn from live...

Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors

by Susannah Carson & Harold Bloom

Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work...

Hollywood Screenwriting Directory Spring 2013: A Specialized Resource for Discovering Where & How to Sell Your Screenplay

by Jesse Douma

Screenwriting market intel you won't find anywhere else!

Mailing out submissions based on some contact information you found on the Internet isn't going to get your script sold. What's truly valuable to an aspiring...

Eleanor Parker: Woman of a Thousand Faces

by Doug McClelland

This is the first book on enduring Hollywood star Eleanor Parker, long underrated despite three best actress Academy Award nominations (Caged, 1950; Detective Story, 1951; Interrupted Melody, 1955).

Parker was...

Translation in Theatre and Performance

by Silvia Bigliazzi, Paola Ambrosi & Peter Kofler

This volume focuses on the highly debated topic of theatrical translation, one brought on by a renewed interest in the idea of performance and translation as a cooperative effort on the part of the translator,...