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  • The Improv Handbook

    The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond

    Series series Performance Books
    The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate the exciting world of improvised performance.First published in 2008, this second edition ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Eight Characters of Comedy

    A Guide to Sitcom Acting and Writing

    by Scott Sedita ...
    The Eight Characters of Comedy is the “How-To†guide for actors & writers who want to break into the world of sitcoms. It has become a staple in acting classes, writers’ rooms, casting offices and production sets around the world. Now, in it’s exciting SECOND EDITION, renowned acting coach and bestselling author, Scott Sedita, gives you even MORE advice and exercises for breaking down ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Star Is Found

    Our Adventures Casting Some of Hollywood's Biggest Movies

    “These veteran insiders have a passion for casting major motion pictures, and they use meetings with famous people to illustrate how Hollywood works.” —Publishers WeeklyFor anyone who’s ever walked out of a movie and said, “That guy was all wrong for the part,” comes this first-of-its-kind look at how actors are chosen and careers are born. Two of the top casting directors in the business, who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Stage Actor's Handbook

    Traditions, Protocols, and Etiquette for the Working and Aspiring Professional

    An invaluable guide to the traditions and best practices of the professional stage actor, from first rehearsal to final curtain.Professional stage actors are expected to have ready knowledge of a multitude of unwritten yet well-established protocols. Traditionally, this knowledge was passed along from one generation of stage actors to the next via word of mouth, or were learned by having one’s ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Laban Workbook for Actors

    A Practical Training Guide with Video

    Series series Theatre Arts Workbooks
    The Laban Workbook is a compendium of unique exercises inspired by the concepts and principles of movement theorist and artist, Rudolf Laban.Written by five internationally recognized movement experts, this textbook is divided into single-authored chapters, each of which includes a short contextual essay followed by a series of insight-bearing exercises. These expert views, honed in the creation ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Hollywood, the Dream Factory

    An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers

    Powdermaker's study of the Hollywood film industry was an early example of anthropological research on contemporary American society. Her observations of the tensions between business and art in the film world led her to suggest that the social relations of the filmmaking process significantly affect the content and meaning of movies. Chapters include: Chapter 1 - Habitat and People, Mythical and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Method

    How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act

    by Isaac Butler ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER, TIME MAGAZINE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, VOX, SALON, LIT HUB, AND VANITY FAIR“Entertaining and illuminating.”--The New Yorker * “Compulsively readable.”--New York Times * “Delicious, humane, probing.”--Vulture * “The best and most important book about acting I've ever re... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Experimental and Expanded Animation

    New Perspectives and Practices

    Edited by Vicky Smith, Nicky Hamlyn ...
    Series series Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image
    This book discusses developments and continuities in experimental animation that, since Robert Russet and Cecile Starr’s Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art (1976), has proliferated in the context of expanded cinema, performance and live ‘making’ and is today exhibited in galleries, public sites and online. With reference to historical, critical, phenomenological and inter-disciplinary ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Alan Rickman on Jaques (Shakespeare On Stage)

    Series Book 0 - Shakespeare On Stage
    Alan Rickman discusses playing Jaques in Shakespeare's As You Like It, in this ebook taken from Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2 - Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles.In each volume of the Shakespeare On Stage series, a leading actor takes us behind the scenes of a landmark Shakespearean production, recreating in detail their memorable performance in a major role. They leads us through the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Map

    An Actor's Guide to On-Camera Acting

    by Stef Tovar ...
    The MAP: An Actor's Guide to On-Camera Acting teaches on-camera acting in a practical and technical way—helping new actors understand the rules of on-camera acting as if they are learning a foreign language and applying that language to their acting skill set. The book gives actors a step-by-step technique on how to audition for on-camera acting jobs and what to do on set after booking them.Many ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Contemporary Monologues for Men

    Volume 2

    Edited by Trilby James ...
    Series series The Good Audition Guides
    Whether you're applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it's likely you'll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. It's vital to come up with something fresh that's suited both to you – in order to allow you to express who you are as a performer – and to the specific purposes of the audition. In this book, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freeing the Natural Voice

    Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language (Revised & Expanded)

    Knowing how to connect language with breath and voice is a golden key to hang on the chain of the actor's craft!  Linklater’s groundbreaking original Freeing the Natural Voice sold more than 100,000 copies. Now, revised and greatly expanded this edition has been eagerly adopted by Linklater students, selling 30,000 copies to date. Emphasizing the use of imagery and imagination in developing the ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Harpo Speaks!

    First published in 1961, this is the autobiography of Harpo Marx, the silent comedian of The Marx Brothers fame.Writing of his life before, during, and after becoming famous by incorporating lovely and humorous stories and anecdotes, Harp Marx tells of growing up in a rough neighborhood and being poor, being bullied and dropping out of school, teaching himself to read, write, tell time, and to ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Katharine Hepburn

    Katharine Hepburn was far more than an iconic movie star who won four Academy Awards for best actress (the most ever) and made classic films - The African Queen, The Philadelphia Story, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - that still rank among the greatest of all time. She also exerted a singular influence on American popular culture, challenging rigid assumptions about how women should behave - ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audition

    Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

    The casting director for Chicago, Pippin, Becket, Gypsy, The Graduate, the Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar tells you how you can find your dream role!Absolutely everything an actor needs to know to get the part is here: What to do that moment before, how to use humour; create mystery; how to develop a distinct style; and how to evaluate the place, the relationships and the competition. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Box Set: Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor

    Here, from New York Times bestselling biographer Grace May Carter, are the extraordinary lives of Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor. Ingrid Bergman emerges as a devoted artist whose refusal to be a caricature caused her endless trouble - but also produced brilliant performances, from her early role opposite Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca to her profound and final ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speaking With Skill

    An Introduction to Knight-Thompson Speech Work

    by Dudley Knight ...
    Series series Performance Books
    Actors and other professional voice users need to speak clearly and expressively in order to communicate the ideas and emotions of their characters – and themselves. Whatever the native accent of the speaker, this easy communication to the listener must always happen in every moment, onstage, in film or on television; in real life too.This book, an introduction to Knight-Thompson Speechwork, gives ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Audiobook Book

    The Audie Award-winning team of Renea Mason, Noah Michael Levine, and Erin deWard share their experiences and ideas on indie audiobook narration, publication, production, and marketing.This self-help and reference guide for authors and narrators promotes collaboration, communication, understanding, and encouragement as foundations for approaching or refining a career in the fastest growing sector ... Read more

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  • The JANE AUSTEN COLLECTION 9 TOP CLASSICS NOVELS (with Free Audio Links)(SENSE AND SENSIBILITY,PRIDE AND PREJUDICE,MANSFIELD PARK,EMMA,NORTHANGER ABBEY,PERSUASION,LADY SUSAN,SANDITON,THE WATSONS)

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Classic Novels
    The JANE AUSTEN COLLECTION 9 TOP CLASSICS NOVELS (with Free Audio Links)THE MAJOR NOVELS- SENSE AND SENSIBILITY- PRIDE AND PREJUDICE- MANSFIELD PARK- EMMA- NORTHANGER ABBEY- PERSUASIONSHORT FICTION- LADY SUSANUNFINISHED NOVELS- SANDITON- THE WATSONSJane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Bette Davis

    In a career that spanned six decades, two Academy Awards, and ten Oscar nominations, Bette Davis became one of the greatest screen legends of all time. But, as her epitaph says, "She did it the hard way." She was in constant battles with co-stars, directors, and studios and struggled with addictions to alcohol and cigarettes. She had four stormy marriages and even her three children brought pain ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Rock the Audition

    How to Prepare for and Get Cast in Rock Musicals

    by Sheri Sanders ...
    Rock musicals are an increasingly dominant force in contemporary musical theatre. Rock the Audition focuses in on this quickly growing area and defines what is required of a performer and their teacher to succeed in the audition room and on stage. With guts, love, and her finger on the pulse, rock musical audition coach Sheri Sanders shares all the essential tools for artists to interpret rock ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The System of Theatrical Improvisation

    Ukrainian publisher presents the essay "The system of theatrical improvisation,” a result of ten-year experience of actor Stanislav Hlushko in the "Black Square" theater, Kyiv. Improvisation by itself is not a novelty. It is known from performances of the antiquity by strolling comedians, Commedia dell'arte performers in Italy . . . Stanislavsky wrote about improvisation, Michael Chekhov and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • El actor invisible

    Translated by Elena Vilallonga ...
    by Yoshi Oida ...
    Yoshi Oida vierte sus enseñanzas teatrales -en las que conjuga la tradición oriental junto a su experiencia occidental de más de treinta años como actor y director en Europa- en El actor invisible. Se trata de un libro de referencia teatral, traducido a más de cinco idiomas, en el que Oida, ayudado en la redacción por Lorna Marshall, enseña al lector a alcanzar un estado actoral en el que el ... Read more

    $9.99 USD