Performing Arts

NEW REVISED SECOND EDITION - With the recent surge of interactive performance venues, the demand for a definitive "how-to" guide to interactive improvisation has never been greater, The Art of Play fills the void with a warm, insightful, and often amusing collection of examples...

Meet Squishy Taylor: sneaky, cheeky ninja-detective Squishy's favorite movie star is filming on their street, right next door But could Carmeline Clancy really be as naughty as the media says? Only Squishy, Vee, and Jessie can solve this mystery . . .Author: Ailsa WildPublisher:...

Jasmine, Maggie, Becca, and Scarlet love jamming together, but are they ready to perform in front of a real audience in a Battle of the Bands competition? Find out in the first book of this early chapter book series! Jasmine, Maggie, Becca, and Scarlet...

Jasmine, Maggie, Becca, and Scarlet love jamming together, but are they ready to perform in front of a real audience in a Battle of the Bands competition? Find out in the first book of this early chapter book series! Jasmine, Maggie, Becca, and Scarlet...

We all want good scenes. But it seems the harder we work, the less likely we are to stumble towards them.Improvising Now offers techniques, tricks, and secrets used by professionals to make the act of improvising easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable onstage. You'll...

Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Davis's watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for ten-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz scene waned beneath the rise of rock-and-roll...

Ridiculous makeup, blinding spotlights, and too much catty drama Annabelle Daphne Louis starts her second assignment from her therapist to venture outside of her comfort zone at her new school. This time, she's trying her hand at theater. Failing the auditions for Little Shop...

More than 30 years ago Marty Di Bergi (played by director Rob Reiner) could not have known that as he introduced his "rockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap, he was creating a work of genius that would rock on for decades. Consistently cited as one...

Looking for a comprehensive chronicle of the films of legendary director, screenwriter, and producer John Hughes? You're holding it in your hands. Covering the entirety of Hughes's career, from his earliest features through to his mainstream box-office successes, John Hughes FAQ explores the key...

Twin Peaks, the infamously strange, seductive, and confounding murder mystery that made network television safe for surrealism, is returning to the small screen after 25 years. Created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, the series enjoys a hallowed standing in popular culture and remains...

Practice makes perfect.Everyone at Hundred Oaks High knows that career mentoring day is a joke. So when Maya said she wanted to be a rock star, she never imagined she'd get to shadow the Jesse Scott, Nashville's teen idol.But spending the day with Jesse...

Television Criticism, Third Edition by Victoria O′Donnell provides a foundational approach to the nature of television criticism. Rhetorical studies, cultural studies, representation, narrative theories, and postmodernism are introduced for greater understanding and appreciation of the critical perspectives on television with in-depth methods of criticism....

Author: Laurie J. WolfPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 11/21/2012Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28dISBN: 9781479729449Review Citation(s): BlueInk Review 12/05/2012This title is not returnable

You may have cheered him. You may have booed him out of the building. But until now, you've never really known The Most Dangerous Man in Wrestling. For the first time, Jerome New Jack Young opens up about his rise to stardom in Extreme...

 Dancer Robert Barnett trained under legendary choreographer Bronislava Nijinska. His professional ballet career was launched when he joined the Colonel de Basil Original Ballet Russe company. In the late 1940s, when George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein formed the New York City Ballet, Barnett...

The Horowitz System shows how to turn an idea into the first draft of a screenplay in 10 weeks or less - 80 percent of students who have used the method have completed original, well-structured scripts, many of which have gone on to win...

High Plains Book Award -- Finalist, Young Adult - MYRCA Northern Lights Award -- Shortlisted - SYRCA Snow Willow Award -- ShortlistedAn aspiring teenage DJ must learn how to navigate life when people find out that she's the daughter of a famous singer. Fifteen-year-old...

'See that's the problem with this family innit, we never wanna talk real about Ife.' In the wake of the sudden death of their eldest son, Ife, one family is forced to confront the traumas they've long tried to bury. As the sun beats...

Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE is a multi-award-winning black gay theatre- and film-maker. A tireless mentor of minority/global majority and socially-outsider writers and performers, he's been struck by the lack of pieces reflecting different backgrounds suitable for performing at auditions by increasingly defiant generations of bold...

A true magician never reveals their secrets or takes "you can't" as an answer. Fourteen-year-old Kylie really wants to be a part of the magician's showcase. The problem is, the director has already decided that, because she's a girl, Kylie would be better off...