Actor and teacher Wroe (New York's School for Film and Television) offers practical advice for actors seeking to establish a career in New York City. Sample topics include creating an attention-gettin
This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist, Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979, it became an international bestseller.
It's a long way from a large, luxurious rambling estate in the Connecticut country side to 77 Sunset Strip, but Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. made that journey, traveling many different roads, during the life
(Limelight). Sande Shurin's enlightened acting technique is a determined effort to steer away from intellectual, theory-based instruction to a more creative and viscerally human approach. It moves bey
This lavishly illustrated collection of essays recalls the movies that over the past century have created never-ending waves of hilarity. Their authors include such prominent critics as James Agee, J
"The story of Prince's career is inseparable from the history of the American musical theatre for the past 40 years...In-depth accounts of musicals Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Cabaret, Comp
"Fascinating anedcotes about Adler's wit and style make this book an entertainment to read..." - Choice "Rotte's account creates a vivid portrait of Adler as a consummate teacher and a complex woman
These essays offer a broad overview of the horror film genre, from the silent screen to Scream 3, demonstrating how it remains defiantly, frighteningly alive.
"Mitchum's tales include beatings, hanging producers by their shoelaces, killings in Mexican bars and slapping Teutonic helmer Otto Preminger. And there are classic observations, such as his quip to V
"Not often is a book about a film star more gripping than anything the star has played on the screen, but Barbara Leaming's biography has that distinction...Katharine Hepburn is Ms. Leaming's penetrat
This lavishly-illustrated collection of writings on western movies covers close to a century of American cinematic achievement and includes almost a half-century of essays, commentary, and interviews
In this companion volume to her highly successful Callback, Ginger Howard Friedman, a veteran casting director, playwright and teacher, reveals her winning formula for a monologue audition that lands
The lyricist/librettist of The Fantasticks, the longest-running show in the history of the American theater, takes on a new role as your guide through the magical world of the stage musical.
A detailed overview of Hitchcock's skill in developing the story from intriguing start to shattering climax. A shot-by-shot analysis, using the shooting script as text, describes how Hitchcock's tech
This collection features 22 essays and reviews written between 1993 and 2002 by well-known drama critic Jonathan Kalb (theater, Hunter College). The volume begins with a recent university lecture on
This new translation of the original texts of over 750 songs allows the reader to follow, line by line, the English directly opposite the German. "Will no doubt become the standard lieder-resource fo
