Performing Arts

For over six decades, James Bond has been a fixture of global culture, universally recognizable by the films' combination of action set pieces, sex, political intrigue, and outrageous gadgetry. But as the British Empire entered the final stages of collapse, as the Cold War...

In 1960, Troy Donahue won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Male Newcomer. By 1962, he was a top box office star, received 7,000 fan letters a week, and won the Photoplay Magazine Award for the Most Popular Male Star. In 1971, he...

If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones! He's both a mild-mannered archaeology professor and an intrepid adventurer traversing the globe in search of lost artifacts. Whether seeking the Ark of the Covenant in Egypt, the Sankara Stones in India, the Holy...

The dynamics love their little town but they can't help but feel something's missing. All of that changes when Forte, a kind but noisy neighbor moves in and turns their world upside down...perhaps that's what they've needed all along!Author: Vicky WeberPublisher: Trunk Up BooksPublished:...

Midnight stretches across the land. Moonlight illuminates a singular crossroads. One path leads to queerness. The other to dark creatures, shadowed corners, and things that go bump in the night.But here...just here in the center of that crossroads those two worlds collide. This is...

Julie, Lucy, and Alia are passionate for dance. But they are also at that age of becoming passionate for crushes on boys as well. When their dance class leads them on a trip to Spain to study flamenco, their passion for dance is about...

Coraline, a must-see stop-motion classic from director Henry Selick and best-selling author Neil Gaiman, tells the spooky tale of a young girl's journey to a haunted version of her life and her heroic return to reality. The first release from acclaimed animation studio LAIKA,...

Una familia disfruta de la música nocturna del desierto tejano en esta historia de tradición y recuerdo de Laekan Zea Kemp, ganadora de una Mención de Honor Pura Belpré. Todo empieza con un suave golpeteo, cuando el tío Eduardo tamborilea con las manossobre sus...

You are an artist, not an employee. Artists own their work and control their career. This book is about change, innovation, rebooting the theater system in order to make it more widely available and its artists more strongly empowered. It is written for theater...

Benny Ramírez can see dead people . . . Well, one dead person, anyway. A hilarious and heartwarming story about a boy who can suddenly see the ghost of his famous musician grandfather! After moving cross-country into his late grandfather's Miami mansion, Benny discovers...

Come under the sea and sing-along with all your jaw-some friends in this Baby Shark shaped board book featuring all four favorite nursery rhymes. Sing along with Baby Shark to all your favorite songs; The Wheels on the Shark Bus, This Little Jellyfish, Five...

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.Author: Einat Bar-On CohenPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 03/01/2024Pages: 239Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781438496924This title is not returnable

If the 1980s had been the decade that had brought festive cinema out of its wilderness period and back into the public consciousness as never before, the 1990s would continue to reinvigorate the genre while also returning with fresh purpose to the central themes...

Ariana Grande 2022Ariana Grande is one of the world's hottest stars. As well as being an incredible singer, she is also an accomplished actress. Ariana (or Ari, as we know her best!) shot to fame on the Nickelodeon television show Victorious and has since...

A royally fun chapter book featuring an all-new, original Angelina Ballerina story and black-and-white illustrations throughout! Angelina Ballerina is meeting a princess her age who loves to dance! Angelina can't wait to feel like a princess herself. She thinks the princess will be perfect...

What does it mean to be a "diva"? A shifting, increasingly loaded term, it has been used to both deride and celebrate charismatic and unapologetically fierce performers like Aretha Franklin, Divine, and the women of Labelle. In this brilliant, powerful blend of incisive criticism...

From the author of Marlon & Greg American Cable How Basic Cable Changed America Beyond Fake News and Unreal Reality In that media-changing era between a three TV network world and today's digital streaming, cable television came along and revolutionized our entertainment, our politics...

Hannah Ballard's most successful relationship: her career. Her superpower is an uncanny ability to discover perfect movie settings while avoiding the limelight herself. Promoted from location scout to location manager, she's involved in pre-production for a film based on a bestselling historical novel. A...

The ultimate fact book and journal for fans of Lizzo! Packed with fun facts, quick quizzes, and bonus pages for journaling, this is a must-have for any Lizzbians.Author: Arie KaplanPublisher: Grosset & DunlapPublished: 03/05/2024Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.74h x 5.98w x 0.39dISBN: 9780593752562Audience:...

For over thirty-five years, Gorman John Ruggiero trained child actors. The many productions are represented in this collection of his plays. These works include folktales, mythology, religious stories, and original works that can help children learn some of life's lessons by acting them out...