Performing Arts 6

Who would have ever thought that learning the finer points of improvisation could be such fun? The "Harold, " an innovative improvisational tool, helped Saturday Night Live's Mike Myers and Chris Farley, George Wendt ("Norm" on Cheers) and many other actors on the road to TV and film stardom. Now ……続きを見る

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Until now there has never been a single, simple-to-use game source for teaching improv drama. Now, the sixty-two years of combined experience of two collaborators have made this source book a reality.続きを見る

Despite its enduring popularity with both broadcasters and audiences, the quiz show is marginalized in studies of popular television. Su Holmes takes a fresh approach to quiz shows while also revisiting, updating, and expanding existing quiz show scholarship. Discussing "Double Your Money," "The $……続きを見る

With almost three hundred performance-tested acting games this is the largest collection published to date. They were compiled from numerous workshops and study sessions. Includes a wide variety of proven activities for learning acting and theatre industry skills. The book is divided into thirty s……続きを見る

This volume contains a collection of skits for young actors.続きを見る

This up-to-date, full-color makeup manual is designed to lie open on the makeup table right as a guide for student, amateur, or professional performers.続きを見る

Body movement, gesture, voice and interaction are all essential parts of this large selection of games and exercises. Within its twelve chapters are games for getting acquainted, over forty games on how to warm up the actor's tools, and over one hundred games and exercises for improvisation and pu……続きを見る

How can a teacher without theatrical experience teach a course in theatre arts? How can a teacher inspire self-conscious students to perform before an audience? This book of activities is designed to build confidence in each student with non-threatening evaluations along the way. It begins with ba……続きを見る

Timed to coincide with the 2004 centenary of the artist's birth, this biography--by gifted critic Gottlieb--describes the life of the foremost contemporary choreographer in ballet.続きを見る

A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America続きを見る

In the pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a train engineer drifted to sleep as the train chugged toward Hammond, Indiana, where it plowed into the idle Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train. More than two hundred circus performers were injured and eighty-six were killed. Lytle recounts the details o……続きを見る

This sequel to the popular The Theatre Audition Book features more than 130 monologues from classical, Shakespeare, period, modern, and contemporary plays and a new chapter on musical theatre and the medium, including commercial and film auditions. The monologues - some taken from non-dramatic sou……続きを見る

In the About Time 3 Second Edition, Tat Wood vastly expands upon the discussion of the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who, bringing this installment of the About Time series up to the size and elaborate depth of its fellows. News essays in this edition include The Daemons: What the Hell Are They Doing?……続きを見る

Larry David, the man behind two of the most successful and critically acclaimed sitcoms in television history, is the focus of this biography. This unofficial guide follows the career that has accorded him status as a comic genius and garnered a fanatical following--from his early exploits as a st……続きを見る

Decades of war and revolution in Europe forced an "intellectual migration" during the last century, relocating thousands of artists and thinkers to the United States. For many of Europe's premier performing artists, America proved to be a destination both strange and opportune. Featuring the stori……続きを見る

The games and exercises in this book are designed to be used as warm-ups at the beginning of a theatre class. They have been used successfully with middle school students and they can easily be adapted for use with younger children, older teens and adults in various settings. The games are divided……続きを見る

The man behind the hit A&E TV series "Paranormal State" takes fans behind the scenes of the most intense cases on the show, and reveals the never-before-told paranormal events that led to the founding of the Paranormal Research Society.続きを見る

Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.続きを見る