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An Actor Performs
Your best performance is still to come! In the latest edition of his book An Actor Performs, Shapiro breaks down the techniques that enable actors to connect with script and character on a new level: In part I, "The Tools," explore the basics through storytelling and improvisation, and learn to analyze language in a way that will allow you to own the role. In part II, "The Process," delve into exercises that will help you tap into your imagination and connect with your personal experiences to enhance the portrayal of the challenges faced by your character. In part III, "The Characterization," flesh out your character's personal experiences, and learn more about yourself and your character vi...
To Repair the World
This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1950 shifted live professional theater away from Broadway and inspired the creation of non-profit theaters around the country. Dianne Wiest, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, and Jane Alexander, among many others, share their memories of this intrepid pioneering woman during Arena Stage’s early years. As Head of New York University’s Graduate Acting Program for 25 years, Zelda Fichandler also trained a younger generation of gifted actors. Marcia Gay Harden, Rainn Wilson, Mahershala Ali, and other developing actors who became “artist-citizens” under her guidance, talk about the ways in which she transformed their lives. Theater practitioners who have lived during Zelda Fichandler’s time will find this book a fascinating and entertaining read––as will all theater lovers, especially those in Washington, DC. And through this vivid and compelling oral history, students and aspiring artists will come to grasp how the theatrical past can shed essential light on the theater of today and tomorrow.
Acting in the Academy
There are over 150 BFA and MFA acting programs in the US today, nearly all of which claim to prepare students for theatre careers. Peter Zazzali contends that the curricula of these courses represent an ethos that is as outdated as it is limited, given today’s shrinking job market for stage actors. Acting in the Academy traces the history of actor training in universities to make the case for a move beyond standard courses in voice and speech, movement, or performance, to develop an entrepreneurial model that motivates and encourages students to create their own employment opportunities. This book answers questions such as: How has the League of Professional Theatre Training Programs shaped actor training in the US? How have training programmes and the acting profession developed in relation to one another? What impact have these developments had on American acting as an art form? Acting in the Academy calls for a reconceptualization of actor training the US, and looks to newly empower students of performance with a fresh, original perspective on their professional development.
A Director's Companion
Through discussion and examples A Director's Companion elaborates on key aspects such as: the director as a storyteller; the director as an interpreter of the author's text; the director as a collaborator; and the director as a stager.
The Politics of American Actor Training
This book strives to give a fair hearing to persistent, questioning voices about our nation’s acting training as it stands, thereby contributing to the national dialogue the diverse perspectives and proposals needed to keep American actor training dynamic and germane, both within the U.S. and abroad.
Rich and Famous
THE STORY: One of the world's oldest living promising young playwrights, Bing Ringling is finally about to be produced--with play number 844. But, unfortunately, his lady producer, having had a series of successes, now yearns for a flop--so she can
The Faith of a Child
The remarkable, moving and exciting autobiography of an African child through wealth, poverty, civil war to Show business Stardom. An inspiration for all those with faith.
Our Musicals, Ourselves
Our Musicals, Ourselves is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late nineteenth century to such recent musicals as The Producers and Urinetown. While many aficionados of the Broadway musical associate it with wonderful, diversionary shows like The Music Man or My Fair Lady, John Bush Jones instead selects musicals for their social relevance and the extent to which they engage, directly or metaphorically, contemporary politics and culture. Organized chronologically, with some liberties taken to keep together similarly themed musicals, Jones examines dozens of Broadway shows from the beginning of the twen...
Predictability of Weather and Climate
With contributions by leading experts, including an unpublished paper by Ed Lorenz, this book, first published in 2006, covers many topics in weather and climate predictability. It will interest those in the fields of environmental science and weather and climate forecasting, from graduate students to researchers, by examining theoretical and practical aspects of predictability.
The Black Comedy of John Guare
This book, the first full-length study of Guare's theater, will make his plays more accessible through an examination of the often unnerving type of black comedy that makes his plays work.".
