Performing Arts - General

For every screenplay that becomes a movie, there are hundreds of spec scripts that never see the light of day. Even Oscar-winning screenwriters have their share.In a Hollywood career spanning four decades, Bruce Joel Rubin originated the films Ghost, Jacob's Ladder and Brainstorm. But...

Capital Acts: Washington DC Performing Arts is an extensive history of the prominent and influential artists and media figures who shaped the DC-MD-VA area's cultural landscape. Richly illustrated with a wealth of insightful interviews, the book unveils remarkable narratives of resilience and innovation from...

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during,...

"Immersion" is everywhere in entertainment today. But this promise didn't start with digital media - it was over two hundred years ago that Georgian London became the world centre of such immersive spectacles as the Leicester Square Panorama, the Eidophusikon's magical moving pictures with...

Linda J. Albertano, award-winning poet and Poetry Diva of the City of Los Angeles, was an enchantress, musician, performance artist, actress, and filmmaker. As a child, she was reared in various unkindly foster homes. But this six-foot-four beauty with brains excelled and made her...

Author: Arthur B. ReeveISBN-10: 1435749715ISBN-13: 9781435749719Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2005Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

The story of a band formed by five young musically inexperienced mates from The Rock, a small NSW regional town in Australia, during the second half of the 1960s pop music revolution. The book charts the band's progression from its first non-paid gig where...

Written by Channel 4 comedy writer Brian Luff, this is a brand new pantomime version of Sleeping Beauty. It follows the traditional story to the letter, but is crammed full of sharply original comedy routines, slick banter and hilarious dialogue. One very special addition...

Originally published in 1987. In Words about Words about Words, Murray Krieger advances his ongoing dialogue with the rich diversity of contemporary literary theory and elaborates on his own position as it grows out of an opposing relation to much of current criticism. Krieger...

Author: Ian ChristieISBN-10: 1942782845ISBN-13: 9781942782841Publisher: Sticking Place BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/10/2025Pages: 460Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.93d

Casualties of War, Brian De Palma's devastating and brilliant 1989 feature film starring Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox, tells the true story of the rape and murder of a young Vietnamese woman by a patrol of American soldiers. "When you leave the theatre,"...

"Obscene cinema, what a marvel! It's exhilarating; a discovery. The incredible life of enormous and magnificent organs on the screen. The sperm that leaps. And the life of loving flesh, all the contortions. It's glorious."This is how, in 1929, Surrealist poet Paul Eluard described...

Just like other "serious" musical instruments, bells can help in 1) teaching note duration, 2) understanding different pitches, 3) recognizing different musical scales, and 4) the acquisition of a sense of rhythm and melody. If you are a beginner, playing by note can be...

Author: Terry FisherISBN-10: 1470966514ISBN-13: 9781470966515Publisher: Lulu PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2011Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.12lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.07d

A modern sequel to "It's a Wonderful Life." Remember Christmas Eve, 1945: The warrant for the arrest of George Bailey is torn up, Violet Bick decides to stay in town, and Bedford Falls is saved from the clutches of the evil Henry Potter. Or...

A valedictory public donation by a celluloid-loving collector includes, unbeknownst to him, the earliest extant feature-length film made in the United States. A digitization of a catalogue of archival holdings leads to the chance discovery of a fragment of the earliest known adaptation of...

For centuries, various new media technologies have provided individuals with a set of powerful tools to affect their audiences. Among these the magic lantern show was perhaps the most pervasive, and persuasive. Around the world audiences gathered together in darkened rooms to see a...

Between the waning of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Enlightenment, many fundamental aspects of human behaviour - from expressions of gender to the experience of time - underwent radical changes. While some of these transformations were recorded in words, others have survived...

Author: Hank Kaufman, Gene LernerISBN-10: 1942782853ISBN-13: 9781942782858Publisher: Sticking Place BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2025Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.84d

Author: Hank Kaufman, Gene LernerISBN-10: 1942782861ISBN-13: 9781942782865Publisher: Sticking Place BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2025Pages: 408Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.94d

Grimes Magazine - The October 2024 Issue. This issue features on the front cover RCA Records artist, "Tate McRae" and on the back cover Atlantic Records artist "Mary Jo", who is also next to blow. In addition, we have new releases from Elektra Records,...

Ruben Guthrie is on fire. He's 29, he's the Creative Director of a cutting-edge advertising agency, he's engaged to a Czech supermodel and Sydney is his oyster. He pours himself a drink to celebrate, a drink to work, a drink to sleep and one...

In September 1990, 'semi-legendary' Indie band The Wedding Present released a four-track EP sardonically entitled All The Songs Sound The Same. Now comes the book of the EP, in which over 250 fans and former band members talk about their favourite Wedding Present or...

Murder mayhem and magic.Pushed by his wife to seize the throne Macbeth kills his rightful liege and then tries desperately to hold onto the kingdom that he has wrongfully usurped. Prophesy and magic abound in this dark moody and atmospheric play.Out damned spot! Out...

The Dishwasher Dialogues offers a rare insight into the Paris of the nineteen seventies as few people knew it. Here is a rich dialogue between a Canadian dishwasher/bartender and an American bartender/dishwasher at the renowned soul food restaurant Chez Haynes in the red-light district...

In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors performed by both ordinary and high-profile people. From former President Donald J. Trump's lewd banter on the infamous Access Hollywood video...

The long-awaited memoir of Julius Rudel, the legendary opera conductor and arts administrator, gives insight into his ground-breaking repertory choices and his collaborations with Beverly Sills, Plácido Domingo, and others. As a seventeen-year-old Jewish boy, Julius Rudel escaped from Austria after the Nazi invasion...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

We discovered that we love to sing the old songs from a certain time but we have forgotten most of the words. This collection supplies the words to favorite oldies but goodies get a group together with a couple of copies of this song...

Author: Stephen Moore, Johnny Holliday, Charles David YoungISBN-10: 1958892068ISBN-13: 9781958892060Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2024Pages: 540Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d

Bullwhip expert and four-time Guinness World Record holder Robert Dante teaches whip cracking to beginners and shares plenty of good advice to advanced performers.Author: Robert DanteISBN-13: 9798218569426Publisher: DanteLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2016Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.31d

Made in America and the Hidden Stories of The Sopranos by Steve Else shows how most viewers have misunderstood the mysterious finale of television's greatest drama. It is shown to be one of a number of narratives secreted within The Sopranos which require extra...

This book is not pretending to be a definitive history of those four life-long friends, There are no revealing secrets, no gossip. It is simply a journey through their career via their recordings, a tribute to a career that earned them the plaudits of...

Playing The Horn: Technique and Beyond by Julian Baker, offers horn players of any age - amateur, professional, teacher, or student - to play better. It is the product of Julian Baker's long and distinguished career as a player and teacher of the horn....

Eleven pieces by Eric Satie for flute and guitar (in standard notation and tablature). Includes: Allons-y Chochotte, Danses de travers No. 1 (from Pi?ces froides), Fantaisie-valse, Gymnop?die No. 1, Je te veux, Le Piccadilly, Lentement (from Trois morceaux en forme de poire), Petite ouverture...

In recent years, attacks on the rise of 'gender ideology' and 'genderism' as a political force, on gender studies as an academic field, and on feminist, queer and trans individuals seen to be their embodied representatives, have grown in scope and intensity. This edited...

Ready to embark on a thrilling musical adventure? Turn the volume up and embrace your passion for guitar with our Special Report, "Learn to Play Guitar: From Beginner to Rockstar". This electrifying guide is so much more than a simple manual - it's your...

Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series The three plays in this volume straddle the borders between comedy and tragedy. Alkestis is a moving "romance" with death; it has parallels to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Helen, an alternative version of the tragic portrayal...

Author: Melissa L. BryantISBN-10: 1519100329ISBN-13: 9781519100320Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/08/2015Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.07d

Body and Soul is a play written by Arnold Bennett, published in 1905. The story revolves around the life of Henry Earlforward, a middle-aged widower who owns a small bookshop in London. He lives alone with his sister, Annie, who is a spinster and...

This book is a collective effort on the authors' part to remember KISS, one of the most important hard-rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s. Arguably KISS was the first major act in rock music history to present rock music as Entertainment Product firstly...

Postmodernism versus liberal humanism - can an older male academic convert a young female student to a post-structural, post-patriarchal view of literature and seduce her at the same time? Not only a very funny and revealing drama about personal relations at an Australian university,...

Between 2005 to 2007 the international documentary photographer Debby Besford researched and photographed a complexity of issues around the representation of the contemporary female, with emphasis on the Burlesque Stage Performer.This led onto further creative intrigue and a questioning of the idea of play...

On the 8th November 1979, Monty Python's movie 'Life of Brian' was released to hymn-singing protestors, but went on to break box office records. Exactly 45 years later Julian Doyle the film's editor, threatens to re-ignite the furore. While the Python's treated Jesus with...

"The Evolution of Skating" is a collaborative venture delving into the lives of both celebrated and emerging skaters. Featuring perspectives from DJs, event planners, videographers, critics, and rink proprietors on both national and international scales, each chapter provides a window into the skater's world...

From classic dramas to modern comedies, this collection of plays has something for everyone. Featuring works by some of the greatest playwrights of all time, including William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw, A Book of Plays is an essential addition to any...

"Requiem: for hard times, that they come again no more" is a 70-minute Latin Requiem in 15 parts for SATB chorus, string orchestra and timpani. "Requiem" was composed in 2017 by Dennis Báthory-Kitsz in consideration of the world's state at this time: in turmoil,...

Author: Clariece PaulkISBN-10: 154561962XISBN-13: 9781545619629Publisher: Xulon PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2017Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.58d

On Christmas Eve 1876, Portsmouth citizens watched flames reduce their largest meetinghouse and entertainment hall to ashes. During the following year, local families, businessmen, and craftsmen combined their resources to build a new auditorium with state-of-the-art lighting, rigging, staging, and seating-a comfortable venue for...

I am a fan of the actor James Dean, and this book is my tribute to him.Author: Joyce ChandlerISBN-10: 1434318206ISBN-13: 9781434318206Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2007Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d