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Making It on Broadway: Actors' Tales of Climbing to the Top Author: David Wienir, Jodie Langel ISBN: 1581153465 Recommended Retail Price: $19.95 Countering the misperceptions about Broadway performers leading glamorous lives, the words of more than 150 Broadway stars provide unprecedented insight into their struggle for stardom. With an introduction by Jason Alexander and candid interviews with today's most celebrated Broadway stars, this book offers stories to... Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature Author: Alex P. Schmid, A.J. Jongman ISBN: 1412804698 Recommended Retail Price: $49.95 Once a marginal field of study in the social sciences, terrorism is now very much in center stage. The 1970s terrorist attacks by the PLO, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Japanese Red Army, the Unabomber, Aum Shinrikyo, Timothy McVeigh, the World Trade Cente... The Actor and the Text (Applause Acting Series) Author: Cicely Berry ISBN: 1557831386 Recommended Retail Price: $17.95 These words of Cicely Berry, the voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speak to anyone who needs to speak his or her piece - in any arena, at sales meetings or religious revivals. Berry's book will insure that the speaker and the text gets heard - accurately and with true emotional range. Never again will on... Changing Direction: A Practical Approach to Directing Actors in Film and Theatre: Foreword by Ang Lee Author: Lenore DeKoven ISBN: 0240806646 Recommended Retail Price: $24.95 The approach presented in this book, honed after years of on-set experience and from teaching at UCLA, NYU, and Columbia, and endorsed by many in the industry, including director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and producer/actor Edward Asner, aims to provide a helpful reference and reso... The Ultimate Audition Book for Teens: 111 One-Minute Monologues (Young Actors Series) Author: Janet B. Milstein ISBN: 1575252368 Recommended Retail Price: $12.95 The monologue Book you have been waiting for! Award-winning material written specifically for today's teens. Challenging monologues in real language and real situations that are really fun to work on. By Janet Milstein How to be a Working Actor, 5th Edition: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film, & Television (How to Be a Working Actor: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs) Author: Mari Lyn Henry, Lynne Rogers ISBN: 0823088952 Recommended Retail Price: $19.95 Actors, educators, acting teachers, casting directors, talent agents, managers, and producers don’t agree on much, but they all agree that How to Be a Working Actor is the definitive guide to the business of acting. Being a working actor means managing a career as an ongoing business--and while mo... Commedia Dell'Arte: An Actor's Handbook Author: John Rudlin ISBN: 0415047706 Recommended Retail Price: $40.95 An entertaining and highly illuminating account of Commedia's origins as a popular theatrical form, plus a practical and timely step-by-step guide to using commedia techniques in performance. Acting Is Everything: An Actor's Guidebook for a Successful Career in Los Angeles, Expanded Gold Author: Judy Kerr ISBN: 0962949663 Recommended Retail Price: $29.95 The accomplished author shares her lifetime of techniques and tricks of the trade. For the student and professional actor, here’s the ultimate guide for planning, promoting and expanding an acting career. What you need to know to truly master acting is everything you need to know to master your life because acting is e... The Invisible Actor (Performance Books) Author: Lorna Marshall, Yoshi Oida ISBN: 0413696103 Recommended Retail Price: $14.95 Yoshi Oida is completely unique. A Japanese actor and director who has worked mainly in the West as a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, he blends the oriental tradition of supreme and studied control with the Western performer's need to characterise and expose depths of emotion. ... Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and the Actor's Nightmare: Two Plays Author: Christopher Durang ISBN: 0822210355 Recommended Retail Price: $7.50 Search the web for Actors Actors pictures |