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This practical reference manual, with its precise, authentic instructions on how to speak in more than 100 dialects, has established itself as the most useful and comprehensive guide to accents available, no...

Songwriting: A Complete Guide to the Craft is both a comprehensive course for beginning and experienced songwriters and a rich source of new ideas, inspiration, and tricks of the trade for those who have alr...

This entertaining and insightful book is the first devoted exclusively to films that push the cinematic envelope with explicit language, nudity, sex, violence, or adult themes. Stephen Tropiano offers astute...

Continuing a tradition that dates back to 1920, this beloved annual honors 10 new plays and musicals and three regional plays cited in the Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Awards and Citations competition....

The full text and complete lyrics, as well as photographs from the original production. One of the great works of the American musical theatre. It is darling, touching, beautiful, warm, funny and inspiring. ...

This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling, Harpo, or perhaps his collaborator, is the best writer of the Marx ...

From the femme fatale of the early cinema to her post-feminist rebirth, this lavishly illustrated book and comprehensive guide traces the history of these dangerously alluring, manipulative, and desperate le...

Childsplay is a very charming and enchanting book - and an important book for children who want to act! Not only can they use this wonderful collection as a guide to the sorts of plays and parts that are ava...

The complete 8-year curriculum of Leningrad's famed Vaganova Choreographic School, which trained Nureyev, Baryshnikov, and Makarova, including over 100 photographs. A volume which no teacher, scholar, o...

Commentary on and a concise, lucid interpretation of the opera world's most complex masterwork, expanded from the author's popular intermission talks during Met Opera broadcasts. Anyone, whether kn...

Jerome Hines has interviewed 40 singers, a speech therapist, and a throat specialist to provide this invaluable collection of advice for all singers. This collection includes the commentary of Licia Albanese...

I'm trying to leave a record of the technique, to create a blueprint for an ancient art. - Denny Martin Flinn Devoted theatergoers fondly remember Broadway's Golden Age - when musical theatre reach...

Bravo, Shakespeare. Even today, his plays challenge celebrated actors to hone their skills and electrify audiences. Imagine the process actors undergo to recreate these spellbinding roles on stage. In an int...

Louis Zorich brings us up on stage, onto the casting couch, and frequently shows us the exit door...to share how a brief few moments can seem like an eternity, and how individual triumphs and failures reveal...

This book isn't about methods. It's not another how-to book. It's a revelation: a shared collection of actors' trade secrets - tricks of the trade divulged by professionals in an experime...

Insightful and inspiring analysis of the plays that won the Pulitzer Prize during the first 50 years of its existence (1917-1967). In a series of accessible and straightforward essays, Paul Firestone provide...

Do you know what a gimbal stage is, or a gaffer? What is the Alexander technique? And what does it mean when a director says, Back to one! or Stop thinking!? Does a film director want a piece of fruit when h...

Everything an aspiring actor needs to know about the business of finding employment. I thought Tom Logan had written the perfect exploration of acting and eating when he wrote this book. But the new updated ...

A founder of the Atlantic Theater Company, where she now teaches, and an acclaimed director, Karen Kohlhaas exposes what auditors are looking for in The Monologue Audition, the first book of its kind to show...

An invaluable sourcebook covering finding a song concept, choosing a form, writing lyrics, rhyming, constructing a melody, adding harmony, selecting rhythm, and much more. Today's aspiring writers are f...