Stagecraft category: 144 books
Breaking the Rules
The Wooster Group
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Through interviews and descriptions of methodology, Breaking the Rules captures the essence of major works by the internationally acclaimed avant-garde company.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
“A fascinating and provocatively stimulating distillation of three decades of intense conversations between one of the twentieth century’s few true theater innovators and America’s leading writer on the theatrical avant-garde. A splendid book.”—Clive Barnes
“Peter Brook continues...
Theatre
Its Art and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Successful theatre relies on a complex interaction of all theatrical elements: script, direction, acting, and design interact in shifting configurations to offer a new work of art at every performance. Examining these relationships often enriches the theatrical experience.
Theatre: Its Art...
by Dr Alex Mermikides, Dr Jackie Smart
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Devising in Process examines the creative processes of eight theatre companies making devising-based performances. Companies covered include:• The People Show• Station House Opera• Shunt• The Red Room• Faulty Optic Theatre of Animation• theatre O• Gecko• Third AngelAuthors were granted...
The Back Stage Guide to Stage Management, 3rd Edition
Traditional and New Methods for Running a Show from First Rehearsal to Last Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The Most Widely Used Manual For Aspiring And Veteran Stage Managers - Now Revised and Expanded
The next best thing to shadowing a Broadway stage manager, this detailed, behind-the-scenes book as been brought completely up to date. First published in 1991, it is widely used and has been lauded...
Great Producers
Visionaries of American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Up close and personal with Broadway’s brightest lights of the past, present, and future.
* Firsthand accounts, rare interviews, backstage anecdotes
* Insider ideas from Disney, Jujamcyn, Mackintosh, Weissler, Papp, Merrick, Ziegfeld, more!
Broadway’s most esteemed visionaries tell...
Performance Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Richard Schechner is a pioneer of Performance Studies. A scholar, theatre director, editor, and playwright he is University Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. He is the author of Public Domain...
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited."The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series...
Making Faces, Playing God
Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Wearing a mask—putting on another face—embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy...
Digital Technical Theater Simplified
High Tech Lighting, Audio, Video and More on a Low Budget
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The theater is in the midst of a digital revolution! This book provides readers with an easy-to-understand overview of the digital technology currently available for the stage. In clear language, Digital Technical Theater Simplified explains digital technology in the fields of lighting, audio, video,...
by Richard Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
- Also published by TCG: Plays, 1996-2000, a volume of Maxwell’s work
- Attended Illinois State University
- Artistic Director of New York City Players
- Recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Obie Award (for House) and Foundation for Contemporary Arts
- Co-founder of the Cook County Theater Department...
The Secret History of Magic
The True Story of the Deceptive Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Pull back the curtain on the real history of magic – and discover why magic really matters
If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt, with the resurrection of a goose in front of the Pharaoh. You discover how magicians were tortured and killed during...
by Ruth M. Shaver
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The attire of the feudal lords and ladies of old Japan, warriors, priest, courtesans, Edo-period dandies geisha, footmen, farmers- in fact, the whole array of Kabuki's colorful characters-is discussed in fascinating detail in this Japanese Kabuki book.
From kimono and armor to undergarments,...
Singing in Musical Theatre
The Training of Singers and Actors
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
What does it take to be a musical theatre performer? What kind of training is required to do eight shows a weekacting, dancing, and singing in a wide variety of vocal styles? This insider's look into the unique demands of musical theatre performance establishes connecting links between voice training...