Performing Arts

The Legendary Eastern Heroes magazine is back! The No 1 Hong kong film magazine has been relaunched and is back as a bi-monthly magazine.featuring all your favorite stars. Bruce Lee, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen, Old school, later night Cinema, News Reviews, and...

Canadian Performance Documents and Debates provides insight into performance activities from the seventeenth century to the early 1970s, and probes important yet vexing questions about Canada as a country and a concept. The volume collects playscripts and archival material to explore what these documents...

*Deserves a standing ovation. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)* This is a terrific and realistic piece of historical fiction that is perfect for theater lovers and historical fiction fans. --SLC (starred review) *The peppy first-person narrative keeps the story zipping along, and adroitly placed period...

Solve chess problems and improve your chess tactical skills. This book of chess problems will certainly be of great benefit to amateur players. By practicing day after day, they will progress, in a certain way, using the best tactical schemes. In chess, tactical play...

From Frank Sinatra's early pro-Zionist rallying to Steven Spielberg's present-day peacemaking, Hollywood has long enjoyed a "special relationship" with Israel. This book offers a groundbreaking account of this relationship, both on and off the screen. Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman investigate the many ways...

Are you looking for how to join the NFTs gold rush but don't know where to start?Did you just find out about this world and you want to discover how to make huge profits with Non-Fungible Tokens? Are you eager to set up your...

In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited 12 informed and accomplished writers and cultural commentators, both women and men, who are rarely heard to comment on the long-standing bigotry on Broadway towards many different ethnic minorities. Contributors are Lonely Christopher,...

An enchanting collection of 25 traditional songs pays homage to the rich cultural heritage and multilingual communities of East and Southern Africa. The resulting highly mixed musical styles that are unique to each region demonstrate how they welcomed new horizons through contact with others....

What could it mean that your mom is paid to die? It could mean she's an opera singer! How does it feel to grow up as the child of a glamorous opera singer? It's anything but boring! In a single day, Mom's mood can...

The Transferable Skills of Theatre 50 Monologues Each Monologue is a working person talking about how they use skills learned in theatre in their occupation or profession. A lawyer insists that a courtroom is a theatre. A cosmetologist/hairdresser recalls skills learned doing makeup for...

In the late 1970s, Stephen King had the idea of selling his short stories for ONE DOLLAR and a contract to let young filmmakers make their own films based on his works. After King's approval, these films were only available for viewing at film...

Can a long-forgotten song bring the snow back to Freya's town? A lyrical fable from award-winning creators Jon-Erik Lappano and Byron Eggenschwiler. Freya has always loved the snow and the way it covers everything like powdered sugar. But the snow hasn't come to her...

You've got an idea for the next great screenplay. Maybe you're just getting started or perhaps you've spent time with other screenwriting books, and you have your hero's journey, plot twists, reversals, and cat-saving scenes all worked out. Either way, what stands between you...

Although known principally for his modernist masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil (1880-1942) was also a playwright and drama critic. Musil's plays and theatrical investigations, written between 1921-1929, are inseparable form his later literary work and from his life-long commitment to art as...

Catherine Fowler's study positions Jeanne Dielman as a 'contrary' classic, its contrariness arising from director Chantal Akerman's decision to frame an unliberated housewife through a kind of 'slow looking'. By choosing to stay with Jeanne in the kitchen, the film both 'differences' the canon...

Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is a beginner's guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork(R), a method that focuses on universal and inclusive speech training for actors from all language, racial, cultural, and gender backgrounds and identities. This book provides a progression of...

Coldplay's warm and infectious hit song "Strawberry Swing" finds a perfect vessel in this gentle picture book for children. I remember We were walking up to strawberry swing I can't wait till the morning Wouldn't wanna change a thing... Strawberry Swing is a tenderly...

Watch out, Internet! Babymouse is about to influence you in the next book in the Babymousetastic, highly illustrated Babymouse: Tales from the Locker series. Babymouse's whiskers are in a twist! Literally. She tries out a new style--the twist--and now everyone wants to know her...

Prop Building for Beginners outlines the basic concepts of prop building by featuring step-by-step instructions to create twenty of the most commonly featured items in theatrical and filmed productions. This book uses a combination of projects to expose readers to a wide range of...

Go behind-the-scenes to discover how the most iconic Star Wars' heroes were brought to the screen in this collection of incredible interviews and articles. The actors and creators behind 15 of Star Wars' most popular heroes discuss the process behind creating some of the...