Stagecraft category: 144 books
Odyssey Works
Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Odyssey Works infiltrates the life of one person at a time to create a customtailored, life-altering performance. It may last for one day or a few months and consists of experiences that blur the boundaries of life and art—is that subway mariachi band, used book of poetry, or meal with a new friend...
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five raucous scenes from this extravaganza of mistaken identity.The abridgement begins with a dramatic physical enactment of the twins’ separation at sea. The play continues with a series of foibles featuring Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio of Ephesus,...
All the World's a Stage
The Story of Bard on the Beach
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A celebration of the twenty-eight-year history of Western Canada’s most illustrious Shakespeare festival.
Over the summer of 1990, six thousand Vancouverites flocked into a rented tent at Vanier Park to watch A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was the inaugural production of what would become...
by Dr Stephen Purcell
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
What do audiences do as they watch a Shakespeare play? What makes them respond in the ways that they do?
Exploring the practice of being a modern Shakespearean audience, Stephen Purcell examines a wide range of theatrical productions, surveys some of the most influential ideas about spectatorship...
The Perfect Stage Crew
The Compleat Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Here is an indispensable, nuts-and-bolts guide to putting on a stunning, low-budget show in less than 40 days! The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common as well as most complex stage performance problems. Readers without Broadway-size budgets and...
by James Moody
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
For theatrical design students and theater professionals, here is the essential guide to marketing your skills, furthering your career, and operating a successful business! In The Business of Theatrical Design, design veteran James Moody shares his proven techniques to help costume, scenic, and lighting...
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,...
Play and Performance
Play and Culture Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Play and Performance offers hope to those lamenting the loss of play in the twenty-first century and aims to broaden the understanding of what play is. This volume showcases the work of programs from early childhood through adulthood, in a variety of educational and therapeutic settings, and from...
The Definitive Guide to Magic
How to do Magic Tricks: Optical Illusions, Coin Magic, Sleight of Hand, Conjuration, Fire Eating and More
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
This superb guide to magic tricks uncovers and teaches the secrets behind many of the most popular magic routines and stage illusions ever invented.
Perfect for beginners and fans of casual performance and stage magic, The Definitive Guide to Magic is an illustrated guidebook which examines...
The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
A classic work of theatre history and criticism when first published, Arnold Aronson's formative study surveyed the phenomenon known as environmental theatre. Now updated in this richly illustrated second edition to reflect developments and practice since the 1980s, it offers readers a comprehensive...
by Emerson Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Starting Your Career as a Theatrical Designer
Insights and Advice from Leading Broadway Designers
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In the first book of its kind to be published in twenty years, ten award-winning and current Broadway designers-five set designers, four lighting designers, and one projection designer-discuss the business aspects of the theatre world, sharing relevant insider information and strategies that will...
Global Ibsen
Performing Multiple Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy,...
Theatre in the Dark
Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre responds to a rising tide of experimentation in theatre practice that eliminates or obscures light. It brings together leading and emerging practitioners and researchers in a volume dedicated to exploring the phenomenon and showcasing...