Acting category: 934 books
by Thomasina Unsworth
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
A practical guide to training as an actor, helping you get the most out of drama school - and survive in the world beyond.
Are you thinking of applying to drama school?
Do you have a place already and want to get the most out of your training? Are you seeking to make the best possible start...
Blockbuster Performances
How Actors Contribute to Cinema’s Biggest Hits
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
This book examines performances in the American film industry’s highest-earning and most influential films. Countering decades of discourse and the conventional notion that special effects are the real stars of Hollywood blockbusters, this book finds that the acting performances in these big-budget...
I Like You Just the Way I Am
Stories About Me and Some Other People
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
A New York Times Best Seller!
By the actress, writer, and one of the funniest women on Twitter, an outrageous, hysterical memoir of acting on impulse, plotting elaborate hoaxes, and refusing to acknowledge boundaries in any form
Jenny Mollen is an actress and writer living in Los Angeles....
So That Happened
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
If it can happen in show business, it’s happened to Jon Cryer. Now he’s opening up for the first time and sharing his behind-the-scenes stories in a warmly endearing, sharply observed, and frankly funny look at life in Hollywood.
In 1986, Jon Cryer won over America as Molly Ringwald’s...
How to Get the Part...Without Falling Apart!
Featuring the Haber Phrase Technique for Actors
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
How to Get the Part...Without Falling Apart! is the answer to every actor's audition prayers. Acting coach Margie Haber has created a revolutionary phrase technique to get actors through readings without stumbling over the script. The book helps actors break through the psychological roadblocks to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Award Monologues for Men is a collection of fifty monologues taken from plays written since 1980 that have been nominated for the Pullitzer Prize, the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards in New York, and The Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards in London. The book provides an excellent range of...
The Stanislavski System
The Professional Training of an Actor; Second Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1984
This clearly written guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among students and teachers of acting. Now, in light of books and articles recently published in the Soviet Union, Sonia Moore has made revisions that include a new section on the subtext of a role. She provides detailed...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Award Monologues for Women is a collection of fifty-four monologues taken from plays written since 1980 that have been nominated for the Pullitzer Prize, the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards in New York, and The Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards in London. The book provides an excellent range...
The Actor's Secret
Techniques for Transforming Habitual Patterns and Improving Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Offering revolutionary new training for the actor, The Actor's Secret teaches actors and performers how to incorporate the fundamentals of the Alexander Technique, Somatic Experiencing®, and Breathing Coordination in order to reduce performance anxiety and stress; improve stage presence, breathing,...
You Can Act!
A Complete Guide for Actors
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Halle Berry, Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert DeNiro have all been coached by or participated in seminars with Brown. This invaluable manual offers an extensive compendium of reference information from the legendary acting teacher.
The Energetic Performer
An Integrated Approach to Acting for Stage and Screen
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
A new approach to actor training by a senior teacher, this illustrated manual shows how to use the body to produce rich, varied and truthful performances. The approach, rooted in the Michael Chekhov Technique, integrates ancient Qigong knowledge with somatic psychology and western actor training methods...
by Ellen Burstyn
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
A deeply personal and electrifying memoir by Ellen Burstyn, renowned actress and six-time Academy Award nominee.
By the time Ellen Burstyn arrived in New York to study acting, she'd already worked as a Texas fashion model, a Montreal chorus girl, suffered numerous toxic relationships, and just...
An Acrobat of the Heart
A Physical Approach to Acting Inspired by the Work of Jerzy Grotowski
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
"The actor will do, in public, what is considered impossible." When the renowned Polish director Jerzy Grotowski began his 1967 American workshop with these words, his students were stunned. But within four weeks they themselves had experienced the "impossible."
In An Acrobat...
by Stephen Unwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's history and practice of theatre.
The Complete Brecht Toolkit examines, one by one, Brecht's many, sometimes contradictory ideas about theatre - and how he put them into practice. Here are explanations of...