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Stella Adler
The Art of Acting
AvHoward Kissel
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
388 kr
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Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro. The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties, but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly caught and encapsulated by Howard Kissel in the twenty-two lessons in this book.
Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors
From the Silent Era to 1965
AvBarry Monush
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
1 023 kr
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For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library.In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars – Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks – to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down.Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions – good or bad!In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects.Contains over 1 000 photos!
Unseen Hand and Other Plays by Sam Shepard
AvSam Shepard
Inbunden, Engelska, 1984
407 kr
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The complete scripts to six Sam Shepard plays: The Unseen Hand • Forensic and the Navigators • The Holy Ghostly • Back Bog Beast Bait • Shaved Splits • 4-H Club.
Before Brecht: Four German Plays
AvEric Bentley
Inbunden, Engelska, 1986
311 kr
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BEFORE BRECHT: FOUR GERMAN PLAYS CLOTH
Acting on the Script
AvBruce Miller
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
279 kr
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Mastery of craft depends on repetition: the more opportunities student actors have to be guided through analyzing scripts, the more likely they are to develop a reliable process for making choices when the time comes to work independently. That's why Acting on the Script contains eight short plays, which can be used independently or as parts of one full-length play, giving aspiring actors the practice they need to tell the story of the play and of their characters clearly, believably, and compellingly. With each new scene, readers are given the opportunity to think through the analysis and synthesis process independently, then they are guided clearly through that process.The first section reintroduces the basic elements of acting craft. The book then lays out how these elements relate to a script in general and then more specifically – by using a short play to illustrate the basic principles. The second section focuses on specific analysis and synthesis problems using original scenes especially composed to help students develop their analysis and choice-making skills and to address individual acting issues. The plays, already tested in classes and two productions (one professional and one college), are filled with the kinds of acting problems that beginning actors often have trouble with and need to learn to solve. In addition, specific problems that actors might have with certain types of material are addressed as well.
Celestina
AvFernando De Rojas
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
167 kr
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“As Greek tragedy ” says a Spanish writer, “was composed from the crumbs that fell from Homer's table, so the Spanish drama owed its earliest forms to La Celestina (1499).”Fernando de Rojas' tragi-comedy – which has also been called “a novel in dialogue” – runs to about three hundred pages in the James Mabbe translation, here adapted to the stage by Eric Bentley in a five-act, 93-page version.The central and pervasive situation is a simple one: a dirty old woman is helping a courtly young gentleman to seduce a girl. The wonder of the thing lies in the art with which Fernando do Rojas derives, from such commonplace materials, a towering tragedy – or rather, tragi-comedy.
Misanthrope and Other French Classics
AvEric Bentley
Häftad, Engelska, 1986
221 kr
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The complete play scripts to: The Misanthrope by Moliere, English version by Richard Wilbur; Phaedra by Racine, English version by Robert Lowell; The Cid by Corneille, English version by James Schevill; and Figaro's Marriage by Beaumarchais, English version by Jacques Barzun.
Servant of Two Masters
And Other Italian Classics
AvEric Bentley
Häftad, Engelska, 1986
193 kr
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An anthology of four classic Italian plays edited by Eric Bentley. Also includes directorial and technical notes. Includes the title work by Goldoni as well as The King Stag (Gozzi), The Mandrake (Machiavelli), Ruzzante Returns from the Wars (Beolco).
Theatre of Black Americans
A Collection of Critical Essays
AvErrol Hill
Häftad, Engelska, 1987
247 kr
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From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, The Theatre of Black Americans offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded into an American cultural institution. Among the essays: James Hatch – Some African Influences on the Afro-American Theatre; Shelby Steele – Notes on Ritual in the New Black Theatre; Sister M. Francesca Thompson OSF – The Lafayette Players; Ronald Ross – The Role of Blacks in the Federal Theatre.
Savages/Shakespeare Wallah
Two Films by James Ivory
AvJames Ivory
Häftad, Engelska, 1986
96 kr
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Introductions, the motion picture treatments, credits and screenplays for these two movies by James Ivory.
La Guerre Est Finie
AvAlain Resnais
Häftad, Engelska, 1986
96 kr
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The script to the 1966 film by Alain Resnais profiling the effect of the Spanish Civil War on the lives of a group of anti-Franco exiles living in France, and still actively working for the overthrow of the dictatorship. Called an incomparable thriller by some critics, it is also a beautiful love story and a moving document of our time. This volume presents the complete scenario by Jorge Semprun and 114 frame-enlargements from the film itself, carefully keyed to the text.
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Scapin & Don Juan
The Actor's Moliere, Volume 3
AvMoliere
Häftad, Engelska, 1988
120 kr
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In one of Molière's most popular plays, Scapin, that monarch of con men, puts his store of ingenuity to work, getting two lovesick young men married to the girls they pine for and, along the way, taking revenge on their grasping old fathers. Closed down after its first, highly successful run because of opposition from powerful enemies of the playwright, Don Juan was performed in a bowdlerized version for almost two hundred years, until actors, directors and critics restored the original text, recognizing it as the most ambitious and mightiest of Molière's prose plays. Bermel's translations of the scripts as presented here have received rave reviews.
Madman and the Nun and The Crazy Locomotive
Three Plays (including The Water Hen}
AvStanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Häftad, Engelska, 1989
199 kr
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Startling discontinuities and surprises erupt throughout these avant-garde landscapes by Poland's outstanding modern dramatist where duchesses and policemen, gangsters and surrealist painters, psychiatrists and locomotive engineers wander in and out, kill one another, and carry on philosophical conversations at the same time.
Medieval and Tudor Drama
Twenty-Four Plays
AvJohn Gassner
Häftad, Engelska, 1987
311 kr
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The rich tapestry of medieval belief, morality, and manners, shines through this comprehensive anthology of the twenty-four major plays that bridge the dramatic worlds of medieval and Tudor England. Here are the plays that paved the way to the Renaissance and Shakespeare. In John Gassner's extensively annotated collection, the plays regain their timeless appeal and display their truly international character and influence.Medieval and Tudor Drama remains the indispensable chronicle of a dramatic heritage – the classical plays of Hrotsvitha, folk and ritual drama, the passion play, the great mortality play Everyman, the Interlude, Tudor comedies Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton's Needle, and the most famous of Tudor tragedies, Gorboduc. Mr. Gassner's introductions and notes tell a tale of excellence and evolution too easily forgotten. The texts have been modernized for today's readers and those composed in Latin have been translated into English.
Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman
Six Plays
AvRobert W. Corrigan
Häftad, Engelska, 1987
247 kr
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Rich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight – varied, stimulating, broad in its view and deep in its perceptions...exciting variety of translations...enlightening essays from some of the most stiumlating minds of the century.– Leonard C. Pronko, author, Theatre East and West, Chair, Dept. of Theatre, Pomona CollegeIncludes: Aristophanes: Lysistrata, translated by Donald Sutherland; The Birds, translated by Walter Kerr; Menander: The Grouch, translated by Sheila D'Atri; Plautus: The Menaechmi, translated by Palmer Bovie; The Haunted House, translated by Palmer Bovie; Terence: The Self-Tormentor, translated by Palmer Bovie.
Hiding in Plain Sight
The Secret Life of Raymond Burr
AvMichael Seth Starr
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
228 kr
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Now in paperback, the complete story of the actor's career, including his secret gay life.Raymond Burr (1917-1993) was an enigma. A film noir regular known for his villainous roles in movies like Rear Window, he eventually became one of the most popular stars in television history as the lead actor on two top-rated dramas, Perry Mason and Ironside, which between them ran virtually uninterrupted for 20 years.But Raymond Burr was leading a secret gay life at a time in Hollywood when exposure would have been career suicide. To protect his secret, Burr fabricated a tragic past for himself as a grieving husband and father. He claimed to have been twice widowed – he said his first wife had died in a plane crash, and his second marriage had ended with his wife's early death from cancer. And there was also a dead son – 10-year-old Michael, who lost his battle with leukemia. Neither of the wives nor Michael ever existed. But that didn't stop these lies from being perpetuated again and again, even in Burr's New York Times obituary.Hiding in Plain Sight examines the totality of Raymond Burr's career and his personal life, including his 35 years with partner Robert Benevides. The author interviewed over 30 people who knew or worked with Burr, including Angela Lansbury, Barbara Hale, Robert Wagner, Gale Storm, and more.
She Always Knew How: Mae West
A Personal Biography
AvCharlotte Chandler
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
228 kr
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Actress, playwright, screenwriter, and iconic sex symbol Mae West (1893-1980) created a scandal and a sensation on Broadway with her play Sex in 1926. Convicted of obscenity, she was sentenced to ten days in prison. She went to jail a convict but emerged a star. Later, in Hollywood, she was the number one box-office attraction during the 1930s and saved Paramount Studios from bankruptcy. Her films included some notorious one-liners – which she wrote herself – that have become part of Hollywood lore. But behind the clever quips was Mae's deep desire, decades before the word “feminism” was in the news, to see women treated equally with men. She saw through the double standard of the time that permitted men to do things that women would be ruined for doing. Her cause was sexual equality, and she was shrewd enough to know that it was perhaps the ultimate battleground.In She Always Knew How, Charlotte Chandler draws on a series of extensive interviews that she conducted with Mae West just months before the star's death. Chandler also spoke with actors and directors who knew and worked with Mae, the man with whom she lived for the last twenty-seven years of her life, and her close assistant. Their insights enrich this fascinating book.
Broadway Musical Quiz Book
AvLaura Frankos
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
221 kr
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The Broadway Musical Quiz Book includes nearly 80 quizzes on every aspect of the Broadway musical, including sections devoted to the careers of major Broadway stars, songwriters, directors, and producers, ranging from Ethel Merman to Stephen Sondheim. It also features thematic quizzes – such as musicals set in France, adaptations from literature, food and drink, British shows, references to sports, biographical shows, and jukebox musicals – and quizzes covering each decade from 1900 to the present. With over 700 shows mentioned, and over 1200 questions, The Broadway Musical Quiz Book is detailed and thorough: the answer section doesn't merely list the answers, it provides further information on the quizzes' subjects (and often on wrong answers, too!). The Broadway Musical Quiz Book is more than just a compendium of trivia; it's a anecdotal history of musical theatre, with something for everyone who loves The Great White Way!
Enraged Accompanist's Guide to the Perfect Audition
AvAndrew Gerle
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
193 kr
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“I am your accompanist. You do not know me. I am the guy who sits behind the upright in the unflattering fluorescent light of the dance studio, a bottle of water on the floor, a half-eaten Power Bar on the bench, and your audition in my hands.”Award-winning New York theatre composer and pianist Andrew Gerle pulls no punches in this irreverent, fly-on-the-wall guide to everything you've never been taught about auditioning for musical theatre. From the unique perspective of the pianist's bench, he demystifies the audition process, from how to put together your book and speak to an accompanist to the healthiest and savviest ways to approach the audition marketplace and your career. By better understanding the dynamics of professional auditions, you will learn to present yourself in the strongest, most castable way while remaining true to your own special voice – the one that, in the end, will get you the job.
Seeds of Modern Drama
AvNorris Houghton
E-bok
Engelska, 2000
214 kr
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Five great forces – Checkhov, Hauptmann, Ibsen, Strindberg and Zola – dramatists whose work define, embrace and transcend the trends and genres of the modern stage, meet here in this extraordinary exhibition of their sustained and sustaining power in today''s theatre. Includes Zola''s Therese Raquin; Strindberg''s Miss Julie; Ibsen''s An Enemy of the People; Hauptmann''s The Weavers; and Chekhov''s The Seagull.
Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman
Six Plays
AvRobert W. Corrigan
E-bok
Engelska, 2000
261 kr
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Rich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight – varied, stimulating, broad in its view and deep in its perceptions...exciting variety of translations...enlightening essays from some of the most stiumlating minds of the century.– Leonard C. Pronko, author, Theatre East and West, Chair, Dept. of Theatre, Pomona CollegeIncludes: Aristophanes: Lysistrata, translated by Donald Sutherland; The Birds, translated by Walter Kerr; Menander: The Grouch, translated by Sheila D''Atri; Plautus: The Menaechmi, translated by Palmer Bovie; The Haunted House, translated by Palmer Bovie; Terence: The Self-Tormentor, translated by Palmer Bovie.
Chekhov
The Major Plays
E-bok
Engelska, 2006
261 kr
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Despite the abundant variety of Chekhov translations available in bookstores and libraries, American directors and actors have sought out these versions by Jean-Claude van Itallie to make them the most often performed renditions on the American stage today. This edition includes “The Seagull ” “Uncle Vanya ” “Three Sisters ” and “The Cherry Orchard.”
Playwright's Workbook
AvJean-Claude van Italie
E-bok
Engelska, 2000
233 kr
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A series of 13 written workshops covering: conflict and character: the dominant image: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller • Overheard voices: Ibsen and Shakespeare • The solo performance piece: listening for stories • Terror and vulnerability: Ionesco • The point of absurdity: creating without possessing: Pinter and Beckett • and much more.
Merchant of Venice
AvWilliam Shakespeare
E-bok
Engelska, 2001
141 kr
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Mark Rylance, the Artistic Director of Shakespeare''s Globe says: As an actor and director I use and recommend the Applause First Folio Editions. They are extremely actor-friendly and share the greatest thing to happen for Shakespearean actors at the end of this century, an annotated, unedited original text, spelling mistakes and all.
Solo!
The Best Monologues of the 80s - Women
AvPhilippa Keil,Michael Earley
E-bok
Engelska, 2000
168 kr
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This collection of 75 solo speeches and performance pieces for actors has been selected from the finest material being written today for theatre in America and England. Solo! presents dramatic monologues on the cutting edge. All selections include acting notes along with the quick and easy guide to the art of auditioning.
Political Stages
Plays That Shaped a Century
AvEmily Mann
E-bok
Engelska, 2002
239 kr
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Warning: The plays of Political Stages do not make for a quiet evening of theatre. These are the plays which got audiences out of their seats, and sometimes out into the streets. Their words and ideas rumbled ominously down the marble hallways of legislatures and challenged, even threatened, and often changed, the thinking of millions. These are the plays which either lit or reflected the fires of those political controversies which blazed across the American Twentieth Century. Individually, each is a molotov cocktail tossed onto the stage, each a political movement encapsulated in dramatic form. Combined, they constitute both a conflagration and a record of American political and theatrical ideology. Never before, however, have they been collected in one explosive volume. In Political Stages, they have at last been preserved, ever ready to serve at the barricades of subsequent eras. Includes works by Tennessee Williams, Emily Mann, Clifford Odets, Langston Hughes, and others.
Complete Voice & Speech Workout
75 Exercises for Classroom and Studio Use
AvJanet Rodgers
E-bok
Engelska, 2002
404 kr
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Potent and empowering voice exercises by the master teachers who devised them! One of the constants that any actor, director or theatre teacher needs is a strong vocal warmup. This valuable, first-of-its-kind resource contains 75 exercises for both solo and group work, contributed by some of the best professionals in the world. There is a brief description of the history and purpose of each exercise followed by the exercise itself. The Voice & Speech Workout comes with a training audio tracks that will be especially helpful to the student or theatre professional working alone. Here master teachers run through each exercise in real time (leaving enough time for response). Among the contributors are such important voice teachers as: Frankie Armstrong, Mary Corrigan, Marian Hampton and Dorothy Runk Mennen. The exercises are divided into nine different areas: Getting to Know Your Voice; Stretching, Centering, Releasing, Aligning; Breathing and Supporting; Making Sound (Resonance and Articulation); Exploring Pitch; Projecting and Calling; Integrating Voice, Breath and Text; Integrating Voice and Movement; Exploring Character Voices and Dialects.Editor Janet Rodgers is past president of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and an associate professor of theatre at Virginia Commonwealth University.The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Prime Time Closet
A History of Gays and Lesbians on Tv
AvStephen Tropiano
E-bok
Engelska, 2002
236 kr
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Television history was made on April 30, 1997, when comedian Ellen DeGeneres and her sitcom alter-ego Ellen Morgan, “came out” to her close friends and 36 million viewers. This groundbreaking episode represented a significant milestone in Amerian television. For the first time, a TV series centered around a lesbian character who was portrayed by an openly gay actor. The millions of viewers who tuned in that historic night were witnesses to a new era in television. THE PRIME TIME CLOSET offers an entertaining and in-depth glimpse into homosexuality on television from the 1950s through today. Divided into four sections, each devoted to a major television genre, this unique book explores how gay men and lesbians have been depicted in over three hundred television episodes and made-for-TV films. These include medical series, police/detective shows, situation comedies and TV dramas. THE PRIME TIME CLOSET also reveals how television''s treatement of homosexuality has reflected and reinforced society''s ignorance about and fear of gay men and lesbians. At the same time, it celebrates programs like Ellen and Will & Grace that have broken new ground in their sensitive and enlightened approach to homosexuality and gay-related themes. This book is witty and insightful, accessible and illuminating, a look into what has become an integral part of American media culture.
Theatre/Theory/Theatre
The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
AvDaniel Gerould
E-bok
Engelska, 2003
347 kr
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Available for the First Time in Paperback!From Aristotle''s Poetics to Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould''s landmark work, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, collects history''s most influential Eastern and Western dramatic theorists – poets, playwrights, directors and philosophers – whose ideas about theatre continue to shape its future. In complete texts and choice excerpts spanning centuries, we see an ongoing dialogue and exchange of ideas between actors and directors like Craig and Meyerhold, and writers such as Nietzsche and Yeats. Each of Gerould''s introductory essays shows fascinating insight into both the life and the theory of the author. From Horace to Soyinka, Corneille to Brecht, this is an indispensable compendium of the greatest dramatic theory ever written.
Excelsior, You Fathead!
The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd
AvEugene B. Bergmann
E-bok
Engelska, 2006
322 kr
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Jean Shepherd (1921-1999), master humorist, is best known for his creation A Christmas Story, the popular movie about the child who wants a BB gun for Christmas and nearly shoots his eye out.What else did Shepherd do? He is considered by many to be the Mark Twain and James Thurber of his day. For many thousands of fans, for decades, “Shep” talked on the radio late at night, keeping them up way past their bedtimes. He entertained without a script, improvising like a jazz musician, on any and every subject you can imagine. He invented and remains the master of talk radio.Shepherd perpetrated one of the great literary hoaxes of all time, promoting a nonexistent book and author, and then brought the book into existence. He wrote 23 short stories for Playboy, four times winning their humor of the year award, and also interviewed The Beatles for the magazine. He authored several popular books of humor and satire, created several television series and acted in several plays. He is the model for the character played by Jason Robards in the play and movie A Thousand Clowns, as well as the inspiration for the Shel Silverstein song made famous by Johnny Cash, “A Boy Named Sue.”Readers will learn the significance of innumerable Shepherd words and phrases, such as “Excelsior, you fathead ” and observe his constant confrontations with the America he loved. They will get to know and understand this multitalented genius by peeking behind the wall he built for himself – a wall to hide a different and less agreeable persona. Through interviews with his friends, co-workers and creative associates, such as musician David Amram, cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer, publisher and broadcaster Paul Krassner, and author Norman Mailer, the book explains a complex and unique genius of our time.“Shepherd pretty much invented talk radio ... What I got of him was a wonder at the world one man could create. I am as awed now by his achievement as I was then.”– Richard Corliss, Time magazine online

Applause Books – serie

Stella Adler

Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors

Unseen Hand and Other Plays by Sam Shepard

Before Brecht: Four German Plays

Acting on the Script

Celestina

Misanthrope and Other French Classics

Servant of Two Masters

Theatre of Black Americans

Savages/Shakespeare Wallah

La Guerre Est Finie

Scapin & Don Juan

Madman and the Nun and The Crazy Locomotive

Medieval and Tudor Drama

Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman

Hiding in Plain Sight

She Always Knew How: Mae West

Broadway Musical Quiz Book

Enraged Accompanist's Guide to the Perfect Audition

Seeds of Modern Drama

Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman

Chekhov

Playwright's Workbook

Merchant of Venice

Solo!

Political Stages

Complete Voice & Speech Workout

Prime Time Closet

Theatre/Theory/Theatre

Excelsior, You Fathead!