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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
Peter Brook · 141 pages
Improvise.: Scene from the Inside Out
Mick Napier · 246 pages
Napier has been at the heart of the professional improvisation community for more than 25 years. Here, he gives you advice and tips for success in improvising. You'll learn the rules of improv-- and why they don't matter. You'll discover how to take care of yourself in a scene, as well as working in two-person or large-cast scenes. And you'll get tips on preparing and psyching yourself for an audi
Wicked: The Grimmerie
David Cote, Stephen Schwartz, Joan Marcus, Winnie Holzman · 183 pages
A companion volume to the hit Broadway musical set in Oz recounts the exploits of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda, the good witch, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the musical and its creation, profiles of cast and crew, anecdotes, and the show's libretto.
Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History
Glen Berger · 370 pages
Playwright Glen Berger's hilarious memoir of a theatrical dream--or nightmare--come true with a cast of characters including renowned director Julie Taymor and two superstar rock legends U2's Bono and Edge.
Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway
Michael Riedel · 447 pages
"A revered and provocative theater observer presents a grand history of the producers, directors, actors, and critics battling for creative and financial control of Broadway"--Front jacket flap.
The Golden Thread
David Clare, Fiona McDonagh, Justine Nakase · 344 pages
This two-volume edited collection covers three hundred years of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Volume One looks at the period from 1716 to 1992, exploring such varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women's strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish politics and
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
Jennifer Homans · 672 pages
Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and
The Theater and Its Double
Antonin Artaud · 159 pages
The Theater And Its Double is a collection of essays by french poet and playwrite Anton Artaud. Published in 1938. Artaud intended his work as an attack on theatrical convention and the importance of language of drama, opposing the vitality of the viewers sensual experience against theater as a contrived literary form, and urgency of expression against complacency on the part of the audience.
Respect for Acting
Uta Hagen, Haskel Frankel · 227 pages
The famed "object exercises" of Hagen are described here for the first and possibly only time. In fact, there are three divisions of the text: part one is The Actor, part two is The Object Exercises and part three is The Play And The Role. Hagen and Herbert Berghof practiced and taught these lessons at the Berghof school in New York (which produced at least a hundred Broadway and Hollywood house
Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1981-2011, With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes, and Miscellany
Stephen Sondheim · 453 pages
Picking up where he left off in "Finishing the Hat", Sondheim richly annotates his lyrics with personal and theatre history, discussions of his collaborations, and exacting, charming dissections of his work -- both the successes and the failures.
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet
Gail Grant · 144 pages
Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
Michael Shurtleff · 264 pages
Shakespeare: The Biography
Peter Ackroyd · 572 pages
Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd immerses us in sixteenth-century Stratford and the rural landscape--the industry, the animals, even the flow
Unnaturally Green: One Girl's Journey Along a Yellow Brick Road Less Traveled
Felicia Ricci · 286 pages
Act One
Moss Hart · 444 pages
An engaging story, superbly written, funny, poignant, fascinating. The life of Moss Hart, written by Moss Hart and his life in American theater.
Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
David Ball · 96 pages
Using Hamlet as illustration, the author provides the tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation/obstacle/conflict, theatricality, and the other crucial parts of the superstructure of a play.
The Art of Acting
Stella Adler · 273 pages
Stella Adler is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro. The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties, but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly encapsulated by Howar
The Book of Mormon
Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Robert Lopez · 99 pages
The only official companion book to the Tony Award winner for Best Musical from the creators of South Park and the co-creator of Avenue Q. Features the complete script and song lyrics, with 4-color spot illustrations throughout, an original introduction by the creators, and a foreword by Mark Harris.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera
Kat Maher-Smith and Nicola Slavin; Foreword by Andrew Lloyd Webber