Acting category: 934 books
Audition
Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The casting director for Chicago, Pippin, Becket, Gypsy, The Graduate, the Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar tells you how you can find your dream role!
Absolutely everything an actor needs to know to get the part is here: What to do that moment before, how to use humour; create mystery;...
by Tracy Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Captivate the Room with Your Voice will teach you to do just that...Engage and Captivate your audience with essential voice technique. Build rapport, engage and persuade your audience to do just what you want as you learn, step by step, how to add stress, elongation, pitch play, power pausing, pacing...
La fabuleuse découverte du professeur Lou Foc
Théâtre humoristique québécois (Illustré)
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Du théâtre comique à saveur québécoise.
Vous aimez les jeux de mots ? Vous aimez les inventions ? Vous êtes plutôt du genre écologique ? Les sujets de l’actualité ne vous déplaisent pas ?
Des sujets tabous...
by Chris Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
Drew Barrymore was quite a troubling child. She lived on her own at 14, Drew had to grow up fast to meet those early challenges in life. She was in a rehab multiple times in her teenage years. Despite the difficulties, her childhood was filled with adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences.
Drew...
You Have No Idea
A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Holly wood, Love, Loss (and Each Other)
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The highly anticipated first book by a widely respected entertainer whose career highlights include The Right Stuff, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, and former Miss America
When Vanessa Williams was growing up, she had a plan: She’d go to college and major in musical theater; afterward...
by Stanislav Hlushko
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Ukrainian publisher presents the essay "The system of theatrical improvisation,” a result of ten-year experience of actor Stanislav Hlushko in the "Black Square" theater, Kyiv. Improvisation by itself is not a novelty. It is known from performances of the antiquity by strolling comedians,...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1991
**A diverse collection of monologues featuring the voices of women through the ages **
Drawn from poetry, fiction, diaries, journals, and documents of public record, these selections, although not originally intended for theatrical or cinematic performances, offer unique dramatic opportunities...
Sex and the City
Kiss and Tell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Television's sauciest and sexiest program is nothing less than a national phenomenon. Now, after four wildly successful and critically acclaimed seasons, the show's winning formula of sex, glamour, humor, and candor is available in a one-of-a-kind, elegant, and uniquely entertaining hardcover book.
Sex...
by Yoshi Oida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Yoshi Oida vierte sus enseñanzas teatrales -en las que conjuga la tradición oriental junto a su experiencia occidental de más de treinta años como actor y director en Europa- en El actor invisible. Se trata de un libro de referencia teatral, traducido a más de cinco idiomas, en el que Oida, ayudado...
Speaking With Skill
An Introduction to Knight-Thompson Speech Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Actors and other professional voice users need to speak clearly and expressively in order to communicate the ideas and emotions of their characters – and themselves. Whatever the native accent of the speaker, this easy communication to the listener must always happen in every moment, onstage, in...
Life Is Like a Musical
How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A Self-Help Guide--with Jazz Hands! Life is Like a Musical features 50 wry, witty tips on getting ahead in life and love--all learned in the showbiz trenches.
"Hilarious, wise, and one-of-a-kind. This book is so damn brilliant I'm surprised it didn't already exist." -- Sarah Knight,...
Playing Shakespeare
An Actor's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Playing Shakespeareis the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright.
Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to...
by Kelly McEvenue
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
F.M. Alexander developed the Alexander Technique of movement in the early 20th century. Combining vocal clarity and body movement, Alexander developed a performance coaching method that is used by dancers, actors, singers, etc. In The Actor and the Alexander Technique, Kelly McEvenue writes the first...
by Russ Normandy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Detailed descriptions for executing punches, kicks, wards, throws, and falls. Firearm work includes safety, loading, stage business, and field striping.