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Renowned editor Larwrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published men's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights and future stars, including Jonathan Yukitch, Don Nigro, Lloyd Su, Daniel Damiano, Molly Goforth, Carlyle Brown, Seth Svi Rosenfeld, Brian Dykstra, Steven Hayet, David MacGregor,...
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Un grupo de profesores especialistas del teatro español, francés e italiano reflexionan desde la teatralidad franciscana medieval hasta los orígenes de la tragedia, el teatro como espectáculo y el espacio escénico, sin dejar de lado a autores como Carlo Gozzi o Giovan Battista Gelli. Un elenco de investigadores que rinden un merecido homenaje a Federico Doglio, creador del «Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale», quien supo fusionar...
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Mumbai's theatre scene is a dynamic and creative space that has continuously inspired young theatre practitioners from the 1960s to the present day. It is, filled with lessons learned and unlearned, techniques invented and reinvented. It is a space in which experimentation constantly takes place-where, as Shanta Gokhale says in her preface, 'the new' consciously opposes 'the old' and results in the kind of theatre that forces people to reconsider...
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Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published women's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights and future stars, including Michael Ross Albert, Don Nigro, Daniel Damiano, Molly Goforth, Seth Svi Rosenfeld, Brian Dykstra, Michael A. Jones, Sam Graber, Penny Jackson, Christi...
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Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, “The Best American Short Plays” has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, and Horton Foote. William W. Demastes made his debut as series editor with the well-received...
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From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, “The Theatre of Black Americans” offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded into an American cultural institution. Among the essays: James Hatch—Some African Influences on the Afro-American Theatre; Shelby Steele—Notes on Ritual in the New Black Theatre; Sister M. Francesca Thompson OSF—The...
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In 10-Minute Plays for Kids, young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights – such as Sharyn Rothstein, Alex Broun, Jenny Lyn Bader, Claudia I. Haas, and Mark Harvey Levine, and by others less well known but equally terrific such as Sharai Bohannon, Suzanne Bailie, and Shirley King. The characters and situations portrayed are perfect for the kid actor. Some of the plays explore relatable tales of friendship and...
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A MOMENT ON THE CLOCK OF THE WORLD is an invitation to consider how we make the world, together. It collects the voices of people who respond to this invitation with their living lives and prolific work: artists, social justice practitioners, cultural critics and public intellectuals - Cornel West, Taylor Mac, Alisa Solomon, Robin D.G. Kelley and Laura Flanders among them - whose own inquiries intersected with that of the award-winning Foundry Theatre...
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For more than 70 years, “The Best American Short Plays” has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights—Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and others—who have gone on to establish award-winning careers.
“The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014” takes a look at our changing times. "Uncertain" seems to be the watchword of today's world, full of surprises, shocks,...
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This is the third volume of extracts from the British theatrical newspaper "The Era", regarded as the "bible" of the theatrical and music hall world. Dealing with the years 1870 to 1880, it chronicles the hilarious, bizarre and occasionally tragic aspects of life on and off the stage. W.S. Gilbert is driven to distraction by an organ grinder, music halls are taken to task for promoting smutty songs, scene-stealing animals delight audiences and exasperate...
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This commemorative collector's edition celebrates twenty-years of the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square's beloved Christmas show-an annual tradition enjoyed by millions, both live on stage and through its holiday season broadcast on PBS stations, where it has earned Grammy and Emmy® awards and nominations. Each year the show is hosted by a distinguished special guest, including Jane Seymour, Tom Brokaw, Kristen Chenoweth, and Hugh Bonneville....
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In this updated rich resource for actors, renowned movement teachers and directors reveal the physical skills needed for the stage and the screen. Readers will gain remarkable insights into the physical skills and techniques used in a wide variety of performance styles through ready-to-use exercises and approaches. Included in this new edition are chapters covering:
Stage combat
Yoga for actors
Martial arts
Body-mind centering
Authentic movement
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In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, swaggering, carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and marries naive millworker Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant, and – desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family – he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent "up there."...
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A "soucoyant" is an evil spirit in Caribbean lore, a reminder of past transgressions that refuse to diminish with age. In this beautifully told novel that crosses borders, cultures, and generations, a young man returns home to care for his aging mother, who suffers from dementia. In his efforts to help her and by turn make amends for their past estrangement from one another, he is compelled to re-imagine his mother's stories for her before they slip...
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Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom offers 34 short works for performance to recognize and celebrate the fundamental human right to bodily autonomy. From a wide diversity of writers, the works in this powerful collection, each approximately five minutes long, explore reproductive rights, health, freedom and justice. These beautiful works generate vibrant new conversations on vital topics that are at the forefront of public discussions today.
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First in a series of casebooks exploring theatrical pieces from writing and design through production. Includes: Ntozake Shange's The Love Space Demands, Crossroads Theatre Co., New Brunswick, NJ; Danton's Death by Buchner, Alley Theatre, Houston; The Clytemnestra Project, based on the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis; and Children of Paradise, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Minneapolis.
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The second volume in the series provides an inside view of the creative process involved in the creation of 4 major theatrical productions. Each notebook offers in diary form comprehensive histories of major artistic elements that are the center of the creative process. This volume includes: In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks (The Joseph Papp Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival); The First Picture Show by David and Ain Gordon (Mark Taper Forum...
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In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited a diverse group of informed and accomplished writers, both women and men, who are rarely heard to comment on the long-standing bigotry on Broadway towards many different ethnic minorities.
How do intellectuals and scholars feel about how members of their ethnic groups are portrayed on Broadway? How would we know? Very few of them have the power to rate which plays and musicals...
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