Performing Arts

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...

Pete Battistini released "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1970's)" in 2005. Now comes the follow-up, "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1980's)." Battistini painstakingly documented approximately 425 weekly, Casey Kasem-hosted countdown programs from the 80s, and compiled individual program summaries for...

See below for English description.Pat adore danser. Alors qu'il se dandine, Gaston, le crapaud bougon, se moque de lui. Pat, vexé, demande à ses amis de lui apprendre à danser, mais il ne réussit pas à reproduire leurs mouvements. Peu importe, il décide d'avoir...

Katy Duck meets a new friend AND learns a new dance in this encouraging tale for beginning readers. Tip-top-tap Tip-top-tap There's a new student in Mr. Tutu's dance class When dancing diva Katy Duck meets Alice, she thinks Alice has forgotten her ballet slippers...

This gripping and chillingly realistic novel from New York Times bestselling author Sharon Draper shows that all it takes is one bad decision for everything to change. Diamond knows not to get into a car with a stranger. But what if the stranger is...

There's something strange going on at the city zoo. During the day, people come to watch the animals play at the City Zoo. Elephants trumpet, hippos bathe, monkeys climb, and snakes slither. but once the zoo closes and the sun goes down, something magical...

Lindsay Scott hit the big time at age five, when she became the star of the television show "Just Me and the Kids." It seemed like she was set for life--until she had a nervous breakdown when she was eleven, because Lindsay had suddenly...