Montgomery Clift : a biography

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"...Because of Bosworth's artistry, her ability to choose the right details, and her own immersion in the subject...[this book] is an amazing excursion into a life." -New York Times Book Review "It stands as the definitive work on the gifted, haunted actor." -Los Angeles Times "Here it is - the real thing - inside Montgomery CLift. I've known other actors as well, but none with such a harrowing tale. I kept wondering, could Patricia Bosworth have been there? Everyw... More >>

Montgomery Clift : a biography

Diet for Dancers: A Complete Guide to Nutrition and Weight Control

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The first diet book based on research with dancers, this guide provides information about proper dietary procedures that will enable people to reach and/or maintain their optimal body weight for dancing. Areas discussed include weight control, individual differences in metabolism, and body composition.... More >>

Diet for Dancers: A Complete Guide to Nutrition and Weight Control

Listening to Movies: A Film Lover's Guide to Film Music

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This text is a lay person's guide to the world of film music, from the silent era to the present day. Oscar-winning film composer Fred Karlin describes how music is written and recorded for the movies; who the composers are and how they work with film makers; and the music itself - what to listen for in a film score, and what makes one score better than another.... More >>

Listening to Movies: A Film Lover's Guide to Film Music

Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming and Lyrics

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This book has a very specific purpose: to help songwriters find better rhymes and use them more effectively. Rhyme is one of the most crucial areas of lyrics writing, and this guide will provide all of the technical information necessary to develop your skills completely. The exercises and worksheets help experienced writers take a fresh look at their techniques, and prevent novices from developing bad habits. Use this book to start writing better than ever before!... More >>

Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming and Lyrics

Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets

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Originally published in Paris, this is a collection of Hollywood's darkest and best kept secrets from the pen of Kenneth Anger, a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of America's leading underground film-makers.... More >>

Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets

Motion Picture and Video Lighting, Second Edition

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Motion Picture and Video Lighting, Second Edition, is the indispensable guide to film and video lighting. Written by the author of the industry bible Cinematography, this book explores technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of lighting for film and video. It will show you not only how to light, but why. Written by an experienced professional, this comprehensive book explores light and color theory, equipment, and techniques to make every scene look its b... More >>

Motion Picture and Video Lighting, Second Edition

Doll's House, A

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The slamming of the front door at the end of A Doll's House shatters the romantic masquerade of the Helmers' marriage. In their stultifying and infantilized relationship, Nora and Torvald have deceived themselves, and each other, both consciously and subconsciously, until Nora acknowledges the need for individual freedom. Ibsen's 1879 play shocked its first audiences with its radical insights into the social roles of husband and wife. His portrayal of the caged "son... More >>

Doll's House, A

Singing For Dummies

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Develop proper posture and breath control From classical to pop to musical theater – take your singing skills to the next level Dreaming of becoming a sensational singer? Whether you enjoy singing in the shower or on the stage, this how-to guide will help you calm your nerves, match pitch, increase your vocal range, and develop a strong singing technique. You get expert advice on keeping your voice healthy, choosing a voice teacher, selecting the right m... More >>

Singing For Dummies

Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen: Making and Applying Prosthetics

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In the world of film and theatre, character transformation takes a lot of work, skill, and creativity. Dedicated solely to SFX, this book will show you tips and techniques from a seasoned SFX makeup artist with years of film, TV, and theatrical experience. Not only will this book take you through the many genres that need a special effects makeup artist, like horror, fantasy, and sci-fi, but it will also tell you about the tools you will need, how to maintain your t... More >>

Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen: Making and Applying Prosthetics

Fundamentals of Organizational Communication

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With a blend of theory, analysis and practice, Fundamentals of Organizational Communication presents a unique competency-based approach incorporating personal knowledge, interpersonal sensitivity and ethical values.   This Eighth Edition provides an extensive introduction into the major organizational communication issues, theories and skills; enabling the reader to immediately graps and apply the concepts presented.... More >>

Fundamentals of Organizational Communication

Mind Magic: Extraordinary Tricks to Mystify, Baffle and Entertain

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Everyone knows that most magic tricks are simply sleight-of-hand. Mental magic, on the other hand, can give the illusion of real paranormal powers. This dazzling collection offers a rich selection of mind-reading, spirit-raising, future-telling illusions, complete with tips on how to present them most effectively. Read palms with amazing accuracy, predict the future with tarot cards, conjure up table-tipping spirits, find psychic connections between people and their... More >>

Mind Magic: Extraordinary Tricks to Mystify, Baffle and Entertain

The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

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“I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don’t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.”
–Larry Moss, from the Introduction

When Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss’s guidance as key to their career-making performances. There is a two-year waiting list for his advanced acting classes. But now everyone–professionals and amateurs alike–can discover... More >>

The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

Sock and Glove: Creating Charming Softy Friends from Cast-Off Socks and Gloves

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Easy to make...easy to love! Sock and Glove presents thirteen delightful softy projects that are quick to make-and certain to amuse and delight. Full of individuality and mischief, these stuffed creations are all pieced together from ordinary socks, gloves, and mittens. Step-by-step illustrations and instructions make it easy to craft and dress a whole menagerie, including monkeys, elephants, piglets, bunnies, and even an insouciant fish. Endearing to adults and c... More >>

Sock and Glove: Creating Charming Softy Friends from Cast-Off Socks and Gloves

Interpersonal Communication: Everyday Encounters

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Intended to be the core text for the introductory interpersonal communication course at two- and four-year colleges and universities in departments of speech, communication, and human relations.... More >>

Interpersonal Communication: Everyday Encounters

Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition

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Culled from Tony Barr's 40 years' experience as a performer, director and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in front of the camera. This updated edition includes plenty of new exercises for honing on-camera skills; additional chapters on imagination and movement; and fresh material on character development, monologues, visual focus, playing comedy and working with directo... More >>

Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition

Building A Character

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This is the second volume of Stanislaviski's enduring trilogy on the art of acting. The "System" which he describes is a means both of mastering the craft of acting and of stimulating the actor's individual creativeness and imagination. It has become the central force determining almost every performance we see on stage or screen, and still remains today the only comprehensive theory of acting we possess. In Building a Character Stanislavski discusses with master... More >>

Building A Character

Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices

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In a time when society is holding individuals and organizations to high standards of conduct, Public Relations: A Values-Driven Approach addresses how to build ethical, productive relationships with strategic constituencies. This book provides an introduction to the dynamic, growing, and honorable profession of public relations as it relates to a broader social context. Grounded in public relations theory and traditions, Public Relations: A Values-Driven Appr... More >>

Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices

Communication Mosaics: An Introduction to the Field of Communication

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COMMUNICATION MOSAICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD OF COMMUNICATION, Sixth Edition, combines the author's signature first-person narrative style and popular student commentaries with thoroughly up-to-date research, theories, and technological information to provide both an overview of the field and a practical guide you can immediately use to improve your personal, professional, and public communication skills. By beginning with introductions to the basic processes... More >>

Communication Mosaics: An Introduction to the Field of Communication

Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic

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Three hundred magic tricks are divided into the sections "Effect," "Secret & Preparation," "Method," and "Comments & Suggestions"; and more than two thousand photographs demonstrate how to master sleight-of-hand.... More >>

Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic

Antigone

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The body of Polynices, brother of Antigone, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigones faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial, and her defiance of the dictator Creon, seals her fate. Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Anouilhs Antigone was seen by the French as theatre of the resistance and by the Germans as an affirmation of authority. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Jo... More >>

Antigone

Death and the Maiden

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Generally, it's the tortured who turn into torturers."" -Carl Gustav Jung. Suspense mounts when Paulina and her husband offer hospitality to a stranger. Paulina thinks she recognizes, in their guest, the man who tortured her in prison, and she subsequently takes him hostage to find out the truth. A stunningly blunt and compelling play, Death and the Maiden explores brilliantly the issues of torture, power, vulnerability, ethics, and trust. An award-winning play by C... More >>

Death and the Maiden

The Art of Voice Acting, Fourth Edition: The Craft and Business of Performing Voiceover

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Are you just starting in Voiceover? Do you have some experience, but aren't getting booked? Are you a working pro who wants to expand to new areas of VO work?

The Art of Voice Acting is a must read if you are serious about a profession in voice over and looking to maximize your efforts for success in the business.
Packed with basic acting techniques in The Art of Voice Acting, you will discover
* All new scripts
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The Art of Voice Acting, Fourth Edition: The Craft and Business of Performing Voiceover

Man For All Seasons

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A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endurance, his purity, saintliness and tenacity in the face of ever-growing threats to his beliefs and family, earn him status as one of modern drama's greatest tragic heroes.

The play was first staged i... More >>

Man For All Seasons

Wire, The

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Welcome to the critically acclaimed HBO drama series The Wire, hailed as "the best show on television, period" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The New York Times calls it "a vital part of the television landscape...unvarnished realism." Time declares that The Wire, "like its underfunded, workaday cops, just plugged away until it outshone everything else on TV." The Wire stands not only as riveting drama but also as a sociopolitical treatise with ambitions beyond an... More >>

Wire, The

The Reduced Shakespeare Co. presentsThe Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr

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The complete script to the critically acclaimed play. "Shakespeare as written by Reader's Digest, acted by Monty Python, and performed at the speed of the minute waltz." - L.A. Herald... More >>

The Reduced Shakespeare Co. presentsThe Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr

Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians, and Actors from America's Foremost Creativity Coach

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In his decades as a psychotherapist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel has found a common thread behind what often gets labeled “writer’s block,” “procrastination,” or “stage fright.” It’s the particular anxiety that, paradoxically, keeps creators from doing, completing, or sharing the work they are driven toward. This “creative anxiety” can take the form of avoiding the work, declaring it not good enough, or failing to market it — and it can cripple... More >>

Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians, and Actors from America's Foremost Creativity Coach

Finding Lost - Season Six: The Unoffical Guide

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In this comprehensive handbook,the sixth and final season of the wildly popular television series Lost is discussed. Background information on the historical, philosophical, religious, and literary references offer a deeper understanding of the show, and never-before-seen photographs—including exclusive behind-the-scene shots of this season’s filming—give fans more to be devoted to. Including an analysis of each episode, an episode guide, an in-depth look at al... More >>

Finding Lost - Season Six: The Unoffical Guide

Cloud Nine

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Comedy / Casting: 4m, 3f w/doubling / Scenery: 2 exteriors The time-shifting comedy by the author of Top Girls created a sensation Off-Broadway directed by Tommy Tune. Here we are in 1880 darkest but British Africa as portrayed in old movies, plays and novels. Only with a difference. Both parody and spoof of the Victorian Empire and its rigid attitudes especially towards sex. There is Clive, a British functionary, his wife Betty (played by a man), their daughter Vi... More >>

Cloud Nine

Harpo Speaks!

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"This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling, Harpo, or perhaps his collaborator, is the best writer of the Marx Brother. Highly recommended." -Library Journal "A funny, affectionate and unpretentious autobiography done with a sharply professional assist from Rowland Barber." -New York Times Book ReviewAmazon.com Review
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Harpo Speaks!

Hugh Martin: The Boy Next Door

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Hugh Martin: The Boy Next Door is an enchanting jaunt through the Golden Era of Broadway and the MGM musicals. This firsthand account captures the energy and excitement of those special times, with eyewitness tales of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and dozens more. Hugh recounts the origins of some of America's most beloved songs, including the perennial favorite, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." Martin also reveals some secrets that only he co... More >>

Hugh Martin: The Boy Next Door

Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

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Just as the title says, this is a basic primer on what opera is, what to look for and what to listen to. There is nothing stuffy in Plotkin's style, which is clear and idiomatic. The book also boasts a foreword by supertenor Placido Domingo.... More >>

Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

A Challenge For The Actor

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Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself -- and to do so takes an insatiable curiosity about the human condition.from the PrologueUta Hagen, one of the world's most renowned sta... More >>

A Challenge For The Actor

Candida

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Candida centers on a romantic triangle and parodies courtly love and the domestic drama of Ibsen. It abounds with classical allusions, the fervor of a religious revival, and poetic inspiration and aspirations.... More >>

Candida

A Practical Handbook for the Actor

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6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.... More >>

A Practical Handbook for the Actor

Much Ado About Nothing

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Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series.  This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote. Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Sh... More >>

Much Ado About Nothing

Spring Awakening

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“This brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls.”—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times “The staggering purity of this show will touch all open hearts…In its refined, imaginative simplicity, it daringly reverses all the conventional rules by returning the American musical to an original state of innocence.”—John Heilpern, The New York Observer

Death in the Afternoon

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In "Death in the Afternoon", Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for Spain and the bullfight. This remarkable book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons.... More >>

Death in the Afternoon

The Beatles Anthology

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This extraordinary project has been made possible because Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have agreed to tell their combined story especially for this book. Together with Yoko Ono Lennon, they have also made available the full transcripts (including all the outtakes) of the television and video series The Beatles Anthology. Through painstaking compilation of sources worldwide, John Lennon's words are equally represented in this remarkable volume. Fur... More >>

The Beatles Anthology

Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

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This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays stageworthy. The text is full of tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate pl... More >>

Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

Shane: Starring Alan Ladd and Cast

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Shane, a stranger the Starretts take into their home in Wyoming in 1889, becomes involved in a feud between the cattle ranger and the local homesteaders.... More >>

Shane: Starring Alan Ladd and Cast

Michael Caine - Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making Revised Expanded Edition

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A master actor who's appeared in an enormous number of films, starring with everyone from Nicholson to Kermit the Frog, Michael Caine is uniquely qualified to provide his view of making movies. This new revised and expanded edition features great photos throughout, with chapters on: Preparation, In Front of the Camera - Before You Shoot, The Take, Characters, Directors, On Being a Star, and much more."Remarkable material ... A treasure ... I'm not going to be lookin... More >>

Michael Caine - Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making Revised Expanded Edition

Adventures in the Screen Trade

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As befits more than twenty years in Hollywood, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman's sparkling memoir is as entertaining as many of the films he has helped to create. From the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men and Marathon Man, Adventures in the Screen Trade is an intimate view of movie-making, of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman and Hoffman, and of the trials and rewards of working inside the most exciting bu... More >>

Adventures in the Screen Trade

Goodnight John-Boy

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For eight wonderful years The Waltons, the story of a family living in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains during the Depression, entertained America and the world. Yet this television show was more than entertaining. Each episode combined wonderful stories and "teachable moments" in which adults and children alike learned the importance of honesty, hard work, respect, responsibility, self-sacrifice, and kindness. As is true in most families, the Walton... More >>

Goodnight John-Boy

The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

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Peter Brook's career, beginning in the 1940s with radical productions of Shakespeare with a modern experimental sensibility and continuing to his recent work in the worlds of opera and epic theater, makes him perhaps the most influential director of the 20th century. Cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and director of the International Center for Theater Research in Paris, perhaps Brook's greatest legacy will be The Empty Space. His 1968 book divides the... More >>

The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

Orlando

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"Orlando", the film, has won more than 20 international awards. While addressing contemporary concerns about gender and identity, the screenplay adapts the original story to give it a striking cinematic form.... More >>

Orlando

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula

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Emerson's classic study of the Hula is a gold-mine of information for explorers of Hawaiian language, music, dance and culture. He gives the full annotated Hawaiian text of the songs, along with a free English translation.

As in many other traditional cultures, Hawaiian art, dance, music and poetry were highly integrated into every aspect of life, to a degree far beyond that of industrial society. The poetry at the core of the Hula is extremely sophisticated.... More >>

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula

Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth Edition: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution

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Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth Edition, is a friendly, hands-on manual covering the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting, including the lamp operator, rigging crew, gaffer, best boy, or director of photography. This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, useful techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions. The Set Lig... More >>

Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth Edition: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution

Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

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Impro ought to be required reading not only for theatre people generally but also for teachers, educators, and students of all kinds and persuasions. Readers of this book are not going to agree with everything in it; but if they are not challenged by it, if they do not ultimately succumb to its wisdom and whimsicality, they are in a very sad state indeed . . . .Johnstone seeks to liberate the imagination, to cultivate in the adult the creative power of the child . .... More >>

Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

The Art of Dramatic Writing

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Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows Among the many "how-to" playwriting books that have appeared over the years, there have been few that attempt to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel, or screenplay. Examining a play from the inside out, Egri starts with the heart of any drama: its cha... More >>

The Art of Dramatic Writing

Dean and Me

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They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got together, something clicked—something miraculous—and audiences saw it at once.
Before long, they were as big as Elvis or ... More >>

Dean and Me