Limelight Sheet Music

Continuing a tradition that dates back to 1920, this annual chronicle of theater in the United States honors 10 new works and also honors three regional plays cited in the Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play ...

Have you heard of the first American musical, The Black Crook, which opened in 1866 and had fifteen revivals? Do you know Oscar Straus's hilarious parody of Wagner's Ring cycle, Die lustigen Nibelu...

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...

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...

One of the most distinguished lyric-writers of his time, Ira Gershwin wrote for his brother George as well as Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Harold Arlen and others. Limelight presents a selection of stage and scr...

This first-of-its-kind, highly entertaining, and carefully researched account reveals how nearly 200 operas by leading composers and librettists have portrayed the major events and personalities of more than...

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...

The journeys in Acting and Singing with Archetypes are based on the Voices of the Archetypes and Myths workshops that Frankie Armstrong has conducted throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. Prim...