Performing Arts category: 25753 books

The theatre's greatest contemporary director tells the story of his life Peter Brook is the modern stage's greatest inventor. For over fifty years he has held audiences spellbound with his critically acclaimed productions. Now he has finally written an account of his life. Born in 1925 in London,...

Peter Brook is the most consistently innovative director in Western theatre. In these three essays he returns to the concept of his first book The Empty Space and examines what that means for the life of a production. How can a company establish its own "empty space" - a rehearsal and performance...

Professional ballerina and Le Cordon Bleu chef Linda Hymes marries the culinary and performing arts with over 100 easy to prepare recipes. Clear and concise step-by-step instructions create casual yet elegant meals that rely on healthy ingredients and vibrant spices. This unique book is a must for every cookbook lover!

Les lettres que Pierre Falardeau adresse au peintre hollandais Léon Spierenburg parlent en toute franchise de ses films, de ses combats, de ses passions et de ses idées. Ses amours et ses amitiés y occupent aussi une belle place, à l’image de celle que le cinéaste leur accordait dans la vie....

Non seulement je ne suis pas né dans une famille aisée, mais je suis arrivé à deux : il y avait avec moi un besson ! Puis, d’autres frères et sœurs qui suivirent rapidement. Je commençai donc à travailler très tôt. Si tôt que, pendant la première partie de ma vie, j’étais toujours...

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor Christian Bale is definitely one of Hollywood's most accomplished actors today. After becoming a child superstar in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, Bale then soon found himself sifting various projects that came along his way. He established himself a potent...

This book is the first to examine age across the modern and contemporary dramatic canon, from Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams to Paula Vogel and Doug Wright.  All ages across the life course are interpreted as performance and performative both on page and on stage, including professional productions...

You Oughta Be Me: How to Be a Lounge Singer and Live Like One is the hilarious guide to becoming a lounge singer, by none other than Bud E. Luv—lounge singer extraordinaire. Learn how to properly croon into a microphone and how to deal with adoring fans ("don't ever let them touch your hair"). The New York Times raves, "The humor is on target."

Chicago theater veteran Kevin Theis, co-author of the cult classic “Confessions of a Transylvanian: a Story of Sex, Drugs and Rocky Horror,” presents: “Invading Nirvana: a Chicagoan in the City of Angels” the story of one actor’s quixotic odyssey into the heart of the entertainment industry:...

In Rewrite Man, Alison Macor tells an engrossing story about the challenges faced by a top screenwriter at the crossroads of mixed and conflicting agendas in Hollywood. Whether writing love scenes for Tom Cruise on the set of Top Gun, running lines with Michael Keaton on Beetlejuice, or crafting Nietzschean...

Once hailed by John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Brando", latterly known as a ruined genius whose unpredictable, hellraising behavior was legendary, Nicol Williamson always went his own way. Openly dismissive of "technical" actors, or others who played The Bard as if "their finger was up their...

Drip into Drama is a collection of historcal fiction plays that were written to educate students and adults about the struggles and perserverances of historical figures. The plays are also designed to teach students conflict resoulution skills.

As personal technology becomes ever-present in the classroom and rehearsal studio, its use and ubiquity is affecting the collaborative behaviors that should underpin actor training. How is the collaborative impulse being distracted and what kind of solutions can re-establish its connections? The...

The Nine Oclock Novella is a first sample of Herminios written work for the theater. It was first presented in Spanish at the Gershwin Auditorium in Brooklyn College (CUNY) in the spring of 1973. Later, it traveled, in an incipient English version, to the Henry Street Settlements New Federal Theater...