Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Kids' Magic Secrets
Simple Magic Tricks & Why They Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Using everyday items found in most homes, aspiring young magicians can dazzle friends and family with this best-selling kid's guide to performing magic tricks. With the help of this book, young magicians can magically make things appear and disappear, make rubber bands seem to go through fingers,...
by Mordicai Gerstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Full of fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays, this is the ideal guide for actors of all ages and experience.
As an actor at any level you are likely to be called upon to perform a speech from Shakespeare. A great deal will depend on your coming up with something fresh that is suited both...
Luck or Something Like It
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A living legend of Country Music and a worldwide music icon, superstar Kenny Rogers has enjoyed a fascinating five decades in show business, and he tells the full story of his remarkable life and career in Luck or Something Like It. From his days with hit group The First Edition to his sterling solo...
The Book of Shadows
The Unofficial Charmed Companion
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The ultimate guide to the hit program Charmed, this is both a book of spells and a key to the mysteries of the show. The Book of Shadows celebrates the best of Charmed, from its roots in the ancient tradition of Wicca to insider information on the show's stars. N.E. Genge not only provides fascinating...
The Comedy Bible
From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Judy Carter, guru to aspiring comedy writers and stand-up comics, tells all about the biz of being funny and writing funny in this bright, entertaining, and totally practical guide on how to draw humor from your life and turn it into a career.
Do you think you’re funny? Do you want to turn...
Acting as a Business
Strategies for Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
An essential handbook for actors–a modern classic–in a newly updated edition.
Since its original publication, Acting as a Business has earned a reputation as an indispensable tool for working and aspiring actors. Avoiding the usual advice about persistence and luck, Brian O’Neil provides...
Stand-Up Comedy
The Book
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
If you think you’re funny, buy this book!
Whether you dream of becoming a star . . .
A better public speaker . . .
A more effective communicator . . .
A funnier, happier human being . . .
You can learn to leave ‘em laughing!
David Letterman learned to do it. Jay Leno learned to do it. Roseanne...
Then and Now
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
One of the greatest American singers and actresses of her generation looks back on a magical and turbulent life spanning a half century of theatrical history from the golden age of the Broadway musical to the present day.
A legend of the American theater, Barbara Cook burst upon the scene to...
Atta Girl
Tales from a Life in the Trenches of Show Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
From Ann Miller to Jimmy Stewart, from Marilyn Monroe to George Clooney to Sir Laurence Olivier, Giancarlo Menotti, Dolly Parton, Billy Crystal, and a host of others, author and actress Peggy Pope has crossed paths with a number of extraordinary artists. In atta girl, she tells stories from her life,...
by Arthur Prince
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Originally published in the 1930s, this is a comprehensively detailed guide to ventriloquism by a master of the art. The first art relates to the mechanism of ventriloquial voice, and describes the principles on which the art of ventriloquism is based and the correct methods of applying those principles....
Chopin's Prophet
The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history’s most notorious pianist. Widely regarded as the greatest player of Chopin’s works, Pachmann embedded comedic elements—be it fiddling with his piano bench or flirting with the audience—within his classic piano recitals to alleviate his own anxiety over...
Daughters of Destiny
Dramatic Monologues of Four Amazing American Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Throughout the centuries there have been Amazing American Women; women who rose on their strength of character, who overcame incredible obstacles to become outstanding in their own right. Women have created works of art and literature, founded businesses, fought in wars, led political and social movements,...
Life Before Stratford
The Memoirs of Amelia Hall
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1990
By the time Amelia Hall died suddenly in December 1984 she had become one of Canada's most respected and well-loved actresses. In this book she has left an incomparable record of her early years in the professional theatre in Canada. In particular, these memoirs chronicle the history of the Canadian...