Rosemary Ingham and Liz Covey draw upon their many years of hands-on experience in costume design and technology to provide the most complete guide to developing costumes that are personally distinct
Newly revised and updated, The Costume Designer's Handbook is now more comprehensive than ever and is the backbone of any costume designer's library since its original publication in 1983.
Presents a manual of techniques used in Hope Is Vital, an interactive theater program that encourages dialogue between youth and adults about issues surrounding HIV. Organization is sequential, provid
Secondary Stages combines in one volume everything a high school teacher needs to organize and implement a sucessful, dynamic theatre program. Bennett's approach is based on a simple premise: that exp
Each year thousands of actors descend upon New York City, Los Angeles, and other major cities with dreams of making it big. But of the 100,000 or more professional actors in the U.S. only about 2 to 3
Drama of Color is a book for teachers who wish to use folk literature and informal classroom drama to promote multiethnic awareness among elementary students.
Ruth Beall Heinig draws on her experience as a creative drama specialist to give teachers some practical but substantial methods of dramatizing literature with their students.
Miller and Saxton have created a resource in which teachers and students can discover how, by entering the story, drama becomes a compelling medium for learning.
Teaching Drama to Young Children has been written for teachers of children aged five to eight who would like to teach drama, but are not sure how to begin.
Drama and Diversity offers a pluralistic perspective for the field of educational drama and theatre practice, demonstrating how we can respectfully work across and between differences.
Award-winning musical dramatist and teacher David Spencer provides a guide-to-the-game that helps you negotiate aspects of the musical theatre business and more.
"Improvising Better "is an easy to read self-help book created with the new generation of improviser in mind. It's written for today's performers, looking for a quick fix to their performance problems
Along with directing for the Nevada Conservatory Theatre, Lugering works as a teacher of voice, movement, and acting at the U. of Nevada, Las Vegas. Here, he guides actors through a series of voice an
With the exception of Elizabethan styles because of Shakespeare, postmodern acting instruction is pretty much limited to realism when teaching acting styles, says Ramczyk (theater arts, Bridgewater St
This volume collects virtually all of the monologues for women from Shakespeares 37 plays. Not only actors, but directors and teachers, too, will find this book a treasure trove of the famous soliloq
Linda Essig has interviewed twenty luminaries of lighting design and engineering about these changes and how they have affected the art, science, and business of contemporary theatre.While discussing
Kozlowski traces the history of improvisational acting in Chicago from the days of Viola Spolin to the appearance of the Compass, Second City, and today's practitioners, In between, he takes a detaile
The soul of any theatrical production springs from the collaboration of director and actors. To learn to coach a good performance, however-and to accept such coaching-is a fine and delicate art, not m
