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  • Directing Professionally

    A Practical Guide to Developing a Successful Career in Today’s Theatre

    Series series Introductions to Theatre
    How do you develop both the craft of directing as well as a professional career in freelance directing in today's theatre industry? Drawing on his own extensive experience and that of other theatre professionals from the US and UK, Kent Thompson illuminates a pathway from training, apprenticeship and assistant directing to an established career as a director. Directing Professionally first lays ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Colder than Here

    by Laura Wade ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    "I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing"Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be fed and the perfect funeral to be planned. As a mother researches burial spots and bio-degradable coffins, her family are finally forced to communicate ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Drama High

    The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater

    The inspiration for the NBC TV series "Rise," starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez — the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. By the author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino.Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon take his limo from ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Thinking Shakespeare (Revised Edition)

    A working guide for actors, directors, students…and anyone else interested in the Bard

    Revised, updated edition; originally published in 2007Highly regarded text in academia and acting training coursesEdelstein has been directing Shakespeare for over thirty years; at this point, he's directed nearly half the Shakespeare canonEdelstein has taught Shakespearean acting at the Juilliard School, New York University's Graduate Acting Program, and the University of Southern California. He ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Back Stage Guide to Stage Management, 3rd Edition

    Traditional and New Methods for Running a Show from First Rehearsal to Last Performance

    The Most Widely Used Manual For Aspiring And Veteran Stage Managers - Now Revised and ExpandedThe next best thing to shadowing a Broadway stage manager, this detailed, behind-the-scenes book as been brought completely up to date. First published in 1991, it is widely used and has been lauded as the most comprehensive, educational book on stage management available. From preproduction planning and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Theater Geek

    The Real Life Drama of a Summer at Stagedoor Manor, the Famous Performing Arts Camp

    by Mickey Rapkin ...
    What do Natalie Portman, Robert Downey, Jr., Zach Braff, and Mandy Moore have in common? Before they were stars, they were campers at Stagedoor Manor, the premier summer theater camp for children and teenagers. Founded in 1975, Stagedoor continues to attract scores of young performers eager to find kindred spirits, to sing out loud, to become working actors—or maybe even stars.Every summer for the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Acting - The First Six Lessons

    “Acting - The First Six Lessons” is a collection of essays by Richard Boleslavsky. Written in the form of a series of dialogues, these lessons aim to inform and instruct the budding actor on some of the basic principles of acting and learning to act. A novel approach to teaching acting techniques, this volume is highly recommended for novices and young actors or actresses looking to hone their ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: The Journey

    Behind the Scenes of the Award-Winning Stage Production

    Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is one of the most celebrated stage productions of the past decade. Opening in London's West End in 2016, on Broadway in 2018 and in Melbourne 2019 - and with more productions worldwide still to come - the play has smashed records, collected countless rave reviews and awards, and captivated audiences night after night.Now readers are invited behind the scenes to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Viewpoints Book

    A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

    The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with—space and time—into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau have expanded her notions and adapted them for actors to function together spontaneously and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Improvise a Full-Length Play

    The Art of Spontaneous Theater

    by Kenn Adams ...
    Forget the script and get on the stage! In How to Improvise a Full-Length Play, actors, playwrights, directors, theater-group leaders, and teachers will find everything they need to know to create comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and farce, with no scripts, no scenarios, and no preconceived characters. Author Kenn Adams presents a step-by-step method for long-form improvisation, covering plot structure ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • An Acrobat of the Heart

    A Physical Approach to Acting Inspired by the Work of Jerzy Grotowski

    by Stephen Wangh ...
    Courageous and compelling, an invaluable resource for actors, directors, and teachers that can open a pathway to inner creativity."The actor will do, in public, what is considered impossible." When the renowned Polish director Jerzy Grotowski began his 1967 American workshop with these words, his students were stunned. But within four weeks they themselves had experienced the "impossible."In An ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Theatrical Design

    A Guide to the Basics of Scenic, Costume, and Lighting Design

    Veteran theater designers Karen Brewster and Melissa Shafer have consulted with a broad range of seasoned theater industry professionals to provide an exhaustive guide full of sound advice and insight. With clear examples and hands-on exercises, Fundamentals of Theatrical Design illustrates the way in which the three major areas of theatrical design-scenery, costumes, and lighting-are ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Red

    by Mr John Logan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    'There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend... One day the black will swallow the red.'Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century whose ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Perfect Stage Crew

    The Compleat Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater

    by John Kaluta ...
    Here is an indispensable, nuts-and-bolts guide to putting on a stunning, low-budget show in less than 40 days! The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common as well as most complex stage performance problems. Readers without Broadway-size budgets and resources will learn the low-cost, low-tech approaches to painting scenery, building sets, hanging ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Director's Craft

    A Handbook for the Theatre

    The Director’s Craft is a unique and completely indispensable step-by-step guide to directing for the stage.Written by one of the most adventurous and respected directors working today, this book will be an essential item in every student and practitioner’s kitbag. It provides detailed assistance with each aspect of the varied challenges facing all theatre directors, and does so with startling ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • An Actor's Companion

    Tools for the Working Actor

    "I was totally unprepared for the transformation that Seth's technique created in me. . . . I realized that what I thought I knew about acting up to that point was largely misguided . . . but I now had a great, talented, dedicated teacher who generously wanted to share his tools with everyone. There is muscularity, not to mention wisdom and truth to Seth's techniques. He is a wonderful teacher, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Ear

    Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Theater

    by Tim Rayborn ...
    Shakespeare’s Ear presents dark and sometimes funny pieces of fact and folklore that bedevil the mostly unknown history of theater. All manner of skullduggery, from revenge to murder, from affairs to persecution, proves that the drama off-stage was just as intense as any portrayed on it. The stories include those of:An ancient Greek writer of tragedies who dies when an eagle drops a tortoise on ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Business of Broadway

    An Insider's Guide to Working, Producing, and Investing in the World's Greatest Theatre Community

    New York’s Broadway theatre scene has long been viewed as the top of the heap” in the world theatre community. Taking lessons from the very best, this innovative guide delves into the business side of the renowned industry to explain just how its system functions. For anyone interested in pursuing a career on Broadway, or who wants to grow a theatre in any other part of the world, The Business of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Manual de dramaturgia

    El término Dramaturgia tiene ya carta de naturaleza en los estudios y en la práctica teatral contemporánea. Aunque a menudo se utiliza como sinónimo de adaptación de un texto para la representación, su sentido es más amplio, y engloba toda la serie de decisiones y trabajos previos a la puesta en escena. A esta práctica responde en gran medida este Manual. Sin embargo, la tradición europea ha ... Read more

    $7.88 USD

  • Technical Theater for Nontechnical People

    Second Edition

    by Drew Campbell ...
    Completely updated to reflect state-of-the-art standards in today's fast-changing theater technology, Technical Theater for Nontechnical People helps actors, dancers, playwrights, and directors to understand every aspect of a traditional and digitally supported backstage environment-from scenery, lighting, and sound to props, costumes, and stage management. All sides of production are clearly ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Henry VI

    Parts I, II, and III

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Displaying the bold vision and growing skill of a young playwright, these are Shakespeare’s first three history plays, covering some sixty tumultuous years of English history. Their pageantry, violence, and stirring speeches excite audiences with action as well as character, and midway through the final play in this trilogy, a shocking, clever, inimitably evil new voice is heard—that of Richard of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Titus Andronicus & Timon of Athens

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    “These words are razors to my wounded heart.”—Titus Andronicus“We have seen better days.”—Timon of AthensEminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide fresh new editions of the two great tragedies: Titus Adronicus, a graphic story of revenge, and Timon of Athens, a cautionary tale about false friends and unearned loyalty.<st... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Jack Be Nimble

    The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director

    by Jack O'Brien ...
    A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directorsFor Jack O'Brien, there's nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound of an audience bursting into applause. In short, there's nothing like the theater.Following a fairly normal Midwestern childhood, O'Brien hoped to make his mark by writing lyrics for Broadway but ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Crafty Art of Playmaking

    In The Crafty Art of Playmaking, this seminal guide from renowned playwright Alan Ayckbourn shares his tricks of the trade.From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, this book provides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for those with more experience. Written in Ayckbourn's signature style that combines humor, seriousness, and a heady air of sophistication, The Crafty Art ... Read more

    $11.99 USD