Performing Arts

Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief...

She's got the beat! Bravo for a funny Amelia Bedelia story.Even though Amelia Bedelia can't play a musical instrument, she plays a big part in the school concert. She is just as happy flattening a bee as playing a B flat, and her favorite...

Thanksgiving is almost Here It's time for Mrs. Madoff's class to put on the Thanksgiving play. Charlie is the ship called the Mayflower, Sarah is a Pilgrim, and Eveline is Chief Massasoit. Everyone has a role to play and a reason to be thankful...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"Wilder has become a prophet again, searching for values that make humanity worth saving, in a world constantly on the verge of being destroyed either by pitiless nature or by human rage, selfishness, and folly." --Michael Feingold, Village VoiceA timeless...

Lauren Magaziner's hilarious and high-stakes middle grade series gets a touch of Hollywood glamor Pick-your-own-path and puzzle-packed mystery collide in this star-studded sequel in which the reader must help Carlos and his friends solve the disappearance of a famous teen actress.In this wildly entertaining...

Readers can watch Pinkalicious and Peterrific on the funtastic PBS Kids TV series Pinkalicious & Peterrific Pinkalicious takes a twirl in this special I Can Read anniversary edition of Pinkalicious: Tutu-rrific Pinkalicious can't wait to go to ballet class with her best friend, Alison,...

This international bestseller--now with a brand-new cover--features a new chapter and never-before-seen photos In her groundbreaking debut essay collection, actress Lily Collins--Golden Globe-nominated star of Rules Don't Apply, Mortal Instruments, and To the Bone--is opening a poignant, honest conversation about the things young women...

There is--and could only ever be--one Billy Bob Thornton: actor, musician, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and accidental Hollywood badass. In The Billy Bob Tapes, he leads us into his Cave Full of Ghosts, spinning colorful tales of his modest (to say the least) Southern upbringing,...

Mia the kitten who loves ballet is back in another sweet I Can Read story perfect for fans of Tallulah books and aspiring ballerinas everywhere.When Mia grows up, she wants to be just like her big sister, Ava Ava is a ballerina in a...

Meet Mia, the kitten who loves ballet This sweet I Can Read story's adorable illustrations and dance dictionary is perfect for fans of the Tallulah books and for aspiring ballerinas of all ages. On her first day at dance class, Mia can't wait to...

I'm marooned. Abandoned. Left to rot in boarding school . . . There are four reasons why Viola Chesterton knows she'll never survive her first year at Prefect Academy: Her parents have heartlessly dropped her there against her will She has to leave behind...

We Can Readers: Ballet Lessons for Su Ballet is hard to learn but Su loves it. She tries and tries again until she gets it. In this very simple 16-page reader, short sentences are paired with fun illustrations featuring an Asian-American character to get...

The seventh collection of published plays by the Theater Masters' National MFA ten-minute play festival, Take Ten.This collection, Theater Masters' Take Ten Vol. 7, is comprised of the following plays: DOORMAT by Justine GelfmanThe boss is hiring a new assistant. Sarah is out. Jenny...

This book is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan's kabuki theatre in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues, diaries, letters, and reference books, it contains all significant writing about kabuki...

Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema highlights the bold, inspiring, and diverse work of female filmmakers--including directors, screenwriters, and producers--and female protagonists in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry. This volume examines the diverse production and distribution spaces these filmmakers are working in, including documentary, experimental, and short...

We all have our vulnerabilities that we don't want others to see. So we keep a brave face and keep on living. This is the same with 15 year old Elixar Ludgwig. Now Elixar has been alone for most of her life and she...

Shots to the Heart explores how the work of the film actor inspires, provokes, and refigures our feelings and thoughts about the cinema. The book closely considers the art of film performance, the combined effect of actors' gestures, movements, and expressions, in relation to...

A pioneer investigation of Chinese cinema and the Chinese film industry. In Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization, a variety of scholars explore the history, aesthetics, and politics of Chinese cinema as the Chinese film industry grapples with its place as the second-largest film...

A study of teenage witches in twentieth-century American pop culture. The teenage witch emerged in American fiction in the late twentieth century, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture reveals how novels, films, television, and comics about witchy women...

A Friend's Guide to Chamber Music: World Trends Since 1900, a companion to the earlier guide European Trends From Haydn to Shostakovich, explores international developments of this unique collaborative form. Organized chronologically and by geographical regions, World Trends offers a survey of significant works...