Acting category: 934 books
The Actor's Way
A Journey of Self-Discovery in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
This is required reading for anyone passionate about the theater, acting, and the teaching of it. The struggles of a young actor, the actor/director relationship, the challenges of teaching art in universities, ageism, and techniques for teaching realistic acting are all communicated through a fictional...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The object is to create a paint by the numbers acting technique. Script analysis tells you how to deliver your lines. You then sing the dialog, dance your blocking and express your emotions with a musical instrument. You attempt to impersonate, not avoid former noted performers of the part. Basic...
by Debbie Lamedman
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
A Teen Drama Student's Guide to Laying a Foundation for a Successful Acting Career provides invaluable information on a variety of different colleges, universities, and programs. It features quotes from theater faculty and professionals explaining what they look for during the audition process.
The Essentials of Theater
A Guide to Acting, Stagecraft, Technical Theater, and More
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
An Introduction to the World of Theater
A friendly and practical guide to the stage, The Essentials of Theater will prepare actors and crew for their next show. Perfect for college students in theater programs, as well as community theater troupes, this book covers all the bases—from a brief history...
Playing the Mask
Acting Without Bullshit
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In Playing the Mask, award-winning theatre-maker and teacher John Wright explores and demystifies mask-work: what masks do, how they do it, and, above all, what they can teach us about acting.
This book is a wonderfully accessible introduction to a fresh and innovative acting technique for...
An Actress Prepares
Women and "the Method"
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'Every day, thousands of women enter acting classes where most of them will receive some variation on the Stanislavsky-based training that has now been taught in the U.S. for nearly ninety years. Yet relatively little feminist consideration has been given to the experience of the student actress:...
Star Power
Defining Your Individual Signature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
STAR POWER! establishes a new wave of Acting. It speaks to current and relevant issues that creative Actors are grappling with: How do I “BE” authentic and respond from my truth and still BE the character? How do I respond spontaneously and still fulfill the Director's vision? How do I bring...
by Graham Ley
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Acting Greek Tragedy explores the dynamics of physical interaction and the dramaturgical construction of scenes in ancient Greek tragedy. Ley argues that spatial distinctions between ancient and modern theatres are not significant, as core dramatic energy can be placed successfully in either context.
Guiding...
by Michael Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The Actor Uncovered is certainly not a set of rigid rules advocating one "method" or one singular "truth." Departing from the common guidebook format, Michael Howard uses a unique approach to teaching acting, reflecting on his own history and sharing his own experiences as an actor, director, and...
Thinking Shakespeare (Revised Edition)
A working guide for actors, directors, students…and anyone else interested in the Bard
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Revised, updated edition; originally published in 2007
Highly regarded text in academia and acting training courses
Edelstein has been directing Shakespeare for over thirty years; at this point, he's directed nearly half the Shakespeare canon
Edelstein has taught Shakespearean...
by Susan Doukas Brady, Robert Austin Brady
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Replete with photographs, “TALES, OBSERVATIONS & NOTES: BOB AN ACTOR’S MENTOR” is a fascinating, informative and educational journey into New York’s cultural, quirky and serendipitous world of acting and directing. Compellingly, through Bob, we meet the irascible Stanley Kubrick, just prior to...
The Shakespeare Workbook and Video
A Practical Course for Actors
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Shakespeare Workbook and Video provides a unifying approach to acting Shakespeare that is immediately applicable in the rehearsal room or classroom.
It is an easy-to-use text providing practical exercises in specific aspects of Shakespeare's language such as meter, imagery, rhetoric and...
The New Business of Acting
How to Build a Career in a Changing Landscape - The Next Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
The best actor never gets the role. But the right actor always gets hired and if you want to be the right actor, you need to create a well-paved pathway through the traffic jam that can slow you down, divert your attention and create stress behind the wheel of the career you're committed to driving...
Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous!
Playing the Bard for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Performing the work of William Shakespeare can be daunting to new actors. Author Herb Parker posits that his work is played easier if actors think of the plays as happening out of outrageous situations, and remember just how non-realistic and presentational Shakespeare’s plays were meant to be performed....