Black Nativity
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780871291929
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Their Words are Music
Great Reckonings in Little Rooms
Author: Bert O. States
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-09-01
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0520908600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a book about the theater phenomenon. It is an extension of notes on the theater and theatergoing that have been accumulating for some time. It does not have an argument, or set out to prove a thesis, and it will not be one of those useful books one reads for the fruits of its research. Rather, it is a form of critical description that is phenomenological in the sense that it focuses on the activity of theater making itself out of its essential materials: speech, sound, movement, scenery, text, etc. Like most phenomenological description, it will succeed to the extent that it awakens the reader's memory of his own perceptual encounters with theater. If the book fails in this it will be about as interesting to read as an anthology of someone else's dreams. In any case, this book is less concerned with the scientific purity of my perspective and method than with retrieving something from the theater experience that seems to me worthy of our critical admiration.
Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880
Author: Julie Stone Peters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780199262168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
Great Scenes from the World Theater
Author: James L. Steffensen
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →100 scenes from British and American plays chosen for use by students and instructors of drama classes.
At this Theatre
Author: Louis Botto
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781557835666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Contains the informal history of forty theatres that were built, as either legitimate houses or movie palaces and that are currently operating as legitimate theatres"--p. xiii.
Working Together in Theatre
Author: Robert Cohen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-12-09
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1350316393
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert Cohen draws on fifty years of acting, directing and teaching experience in order to illustrate how the world's great theatre artists combine collaboration with leadership at all levels, from a production's conception to its final performance. This book challenges the notion that creating brilliant theatrical productions requires tyrannical directors or temperamental designers. Viewing the theatrical production process from the perspectives of the producer, director, playwright, actor, designer, stage manager, dramaturg and crew person, Cohen provides the techniques, exercises and language that promote successful collaborative skills in the theatre. Collaboration is vital to successful theatre making and Working Together in Theatre is the first book to show how leadership and collaboration can be combined to make every theatrical production far greater than the sum of its many parts.
History of the Theatre
The Great Theatre of the World
Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780871292926
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Author: Simon Callow
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-08-07
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0345803248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A short biography of Charles Dickens by acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow that offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language in a lively, highly readable account. "It has all the gusto that a popular biography of Dickens—a man who “could do nothing by halves”—should possess. . . . The best biography for Dickens newcomers and a wonderful read for all."—Library Journal Dickens was one of the first true celebrity authors. Thousands of fans in Britain and America eagerly awaited each new installment of his stories and flocked to see him on his legendary speaking tours. Not only did he create an incredible cast of characters on the page, but he was also a dazzling mimic and storyteller, and he wrote, stage-managed, and acted in plays for the public. Throughout his life, from his childhood performances in pubs to his legendarily powerful reading tours, Dickens was fanatical about the stage. Callow reveals Dickens’s genius on and off the page and offers a compelling insight into a life that was driven as much by performance and showmanship as by literature.
