(Applause Acting Series). Covering the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental theatre since 2000, One on One challenges actors to explore the inner self, develop skill and artistry for auditions, and deliver a knockout onstage performance. These monologues sometimes comic, sometimes serious, and often both tackle issues ranging ......
Stella Adler towers high among the memorable acting teachers in American theatre. Her methods of training, her principles of acting and character interpretation, and her analyses of the seminal plays of the modern theatre comprise a legacy for everyone who followed her. Acting with Adler looks at that legacy through the particular immediacy and ......
Audition Techniques for Actors of the Global Majority
"Everyone involved in the performing arts, from professors to casting directors to actors to students, especially those just starting out, should read this eye-opening work." Library Journal, Starred Review A practical guide that shows BIPOC actors how to break down the audition process rather than being broken down by the entertainment industry ......
While there are many books that attempt to teach people how to act, there are few that show aspiring actors what it takes to succeed as a working professional.
The Professional Actor’s Handbook: From Casting Call to Curtain Call provides struggling artists—stage and screen actors, dancers, singers—with strategies that will help them ......
While there are many books that attempt to teach people how to act, there are few that show aspiring actors what it takes to succeed as a working professional. The Professional Actor's Handbook: From Casting Call to Curtain Call provides struggling artists--stage and screen actors, dancers, singers--with strategies that will help them successfully ......
This book introduces a playful, interactive way to get much more from dreams. It starts with storytelling fragments we recall, and leads to new ways of engaging the creative mind many of us leave behind on waking. An easy, safe way to get acquainted in a real way, it's fun for anyone who dreams -- and particularly useful/practical for actors who ......
Acting is Believing has remained one of the classic acting texts that continues to set the standard in the field, using the Stanislavski method to teach students the fundamentals of acting for stage or screen-now updated for the 21st century student and actor.
Acting is Believing has remained one of the classic acting texts that continues to set the standard in the field, using the Stanislavski method to teach students the fundamentals of acting for stage or screen-now updated for the 21st century student and actor.
In her wry, entertaining, and astute style, master of her craft Beatrice Manley dispenses wide-ranging insights and nuanced wisdom accumulated from a lifetime on the stage.
