Stagecraft category: 144 books
Busking as a Mercenary Art
or How to Hustle a Bar, Restaurant, or Street
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
A "how-to" manual written for the independent travelling magician or any other street performer. Includes the specific details on different approaches for street, bar and restaurant. Some of the topics are: picking the right bar, entering the bar, working the crowd, building the tip, the...
by Rosemary Klich, E. Scheer
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
How do performers and artists use media technologies to create live events? How have developments in audio-visual technology changed the relationship between the spectator and the performer? How can performance respond to the technology-saturated consciousness of contemporary culture? What are the...
by Lisa Mulcahy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
What makes a theater company successful? Lisa Mulcahy poses the question to leaders from nineteen of the country’s most diverse and vital theater companies from the recent past and present, and offers answers in Building the Successful Theater Company. Producers, stage managers, directors-anyone...
Fundamentals of Theatrical Design
A Guide to the Basics of Scenic, Costume, and Lighting Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Veteran theater designers Karen Brewster and Melissa Shafer have consulted with a broad range of seasoned theater industry professionals to provide an exhaustive guide full of sound advice and insight. With clear examples and hands-on exercises, Fundamentals of Theatrical Design illustrates the way...
Stage Management Basics
A Primer for Performing Arts Stage Managers
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Without assuming any intrinsic prior knowledge of the theatrical field and its associated, specialized terminology, Stage Management Basics covers every aspect of the stage management, from reading a script, meeting with a director and theatre staff, and auditioning, to constructing green digital...
by Annie Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
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The Art of Rehearsal
Conversations with Contemporary Theatre Makers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
What are the key elements that go into creating a work of art for the stage? Which are the most productive conditions and methods of rehearsal? In this collection of interviews, 18 international artists share their experience and offer practical advice on the creation of performance work. Their answers...
Stage Lighting - the technicians guide
An on-the-job reference tool
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
"Stage technicians or 'techies' don't read books, they seek information on the basis of the need to know."
This is a practical guide to stage lighting covering equipment, lighting a performance space, special effects and lighting design. It can be read cover-to-cover, but also used...
by Wilfred H. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
A guide to the history, use and manufacture of Marionette dolls, chapters include, the marionette its family tree, choosing your play, making your stage, making your marionette, training your puppeteers and much more. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before,...
Stage Management
The Essential Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
The highly successful "Bible for any stage manager", now in a revised and updated edition.
The stage manager is at the core of every successful theatre production. He or she organises, manages and runs rehearsals and performances; researches and procures the props and furniture; and...
Shakespeare for Readers' Theatre: Shakespeare's Greatest Villains
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Richard III, King Lear
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Shakespeare for Readers’ Theatre, Volume 2 contains four scripts with some of the greatest villains from the world’s best playwright.
This book abridges into Readers’ Theatre format the plays Othello, Richard III, King Lear, and Merry Wives of Windsor, with memorable lines the likes...
Dramaturgy in the Making
A User's Guide for Theatre Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Dramaturgy in the Making maps contemporary dramaturgical practices in various settings of theatre-making and dance to reveal the different ways that dramaturgs work today. It provides a thorough survey of three major areas of practice - institutional dramaturgy, production dramaturgy and dance dramaturgy...
Staging Shakespearean Theatre
The Essential Guide to Selecting, Interpreting, Producing and Directing Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
From auditions and rehearsals to publicity, this guide leads even inexperienced directors, producers, choreographers and actors through the complicated and sometimes fearsome task of staking Shakespeare. Comprehensive information is presented in a browsable format including historical background of...
by Thurston James
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1989
The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook
This is the first book to contain, in one comprehensive volume, every molding and casting procedure of use to the theater props builder (no matter what his or her level or proficiency). The author demonstrates the techniques involved in using...