Performing Arts category: 25753 books
by Geoff Willcocks
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This volume captures the rich diversity of European performance practice evident in the twentieth and early part of the twenty-first century. Written by leading directors, actors, dancers, scenographers and academics from across Europe, the collection spans a broad range of subject areas including...
Mastering Stand-Up
The Complete Guide to Becoming a Successful Comedian
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This entertaining and sharply written guide—for both beginners breaking into comedy and professionals seeking to improve their sets and advance their careers—examines the work of great comedians such as Louis C.K., Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Izzard, Moms Mabley, Hannibal Buress, Sarah Silverman, Richard...
My Brain on Fire
Paris and Other Obsessions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This is Leonard Pitt’s story of growing up the misfit in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s. In a later age he would have been put on Ritalin and paraded before psychiatrists because he couldn’t pay attention in school. In 1962, at the end of a misguided foray towards a career in advertising he took the...
Before the Parade Passes By
Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
During the Golden Age of the Broadway musical, few director-choreographers could infuse a new musical with dance and movement in quite the way Gower Champion could. From his earliest Broadway success with Bye Bye Birdie to his triumphant and bittersweet valedictory, 42nd Street, musicals directed...
The Actor's Other Career Book
Using Your Chops to Survive and Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Actors don't have to become Broadway stars to make a living with their acting talents. The Actor’s Other Career Book pulls back the curtain to reveal more than 50 permanent and temporary positions available in cruise ships, trade shows, retail stores, advertising agencies, corporate settings, education,...
by David Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Some Samples: 1) Late in life, Fanny Brice—radio’s Baby Snooks—enjoyed interior decorating, often decorating her friends’ houses for free (and disregarding their advice while doing so). She acquired her good taste in decorating through asking questions constantly and not pretending like she...
by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey. Upon graduating college, he worked a few odd jobs until he finally decided to move to New York and pursue comedy full-time. His career was slow to take off. Stewart would perform stand-up comedy gigs while performing small...
Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg
One Comedian's Tour of Not-Quite-the-Biggest Cities in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
“With this charming, sardonic debut, stand up comedian and actor Todd Barry makes readers laugh as hard as the audiences at his shows” (Publishers Weekly) in this hilarious book of travel essays from his time on tour in the US, Canada, and Israel.
Hello. It’s Todd Barry. Yes, the massively...
Cliff
An Intimate Portrait of a Living Legend
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Fifty years ago he was just the boy Harry Webb, performing in a local youth club. Now he is Sir Cliff Richard, the first rock star to be knighted, with a massive international fan base and a top ten hit in each of the last six decades. Yet, despite his huge public persona, the man himself remains...
by Paul Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2000
He is the most famous magician in the world. His feats of illusion have earned him the highest honours the magic world can bestow, and legions of fans who hang on his every captivating act. Yet Paul Daniels is a widely mocked as he is love; a man whose incredible talent has earned him as much admirations...
by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
John William Ferrell was born and raised in a sleepy suburb of Irvine, California. Although the eldest son of Roy Lee Farrell Jr., keyboardist for The Righteous Brothers, Ferrell describes his childhood as painfully normal.
After graduating from the University of Southern California with...
Social Works
Performing Art, Supporting Publics
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
�a game-changer, a must-read for scholars, students and artists alike� � Tom FinkelpearlAt a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, and when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in social reform, this book makes explicit some of the contradictions and competing stakes of cont
Who's Crazee Now?
My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
As lead singer and extraordinary frontman of SLADE, Noddy Holder was one of the most successful musicians of the '70s and '80s. The epitome of the Glam Rock look and lifestyle, they released anthem after anthem as they mixed pure pop madness with football chant choruses. Seemingly on a mission to...
Precocious Charms
Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In Precocious Charms, Gaylyn Studlar examines how Hollywood presented female stars as young girls or girls on the verge of becoming women. Child stars are part of this study but so too are adult actresses who created motion picture masquerades of youthfulness. Studlar details how Mary Pickford, Shirley...