Performing Arts - General

A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century....

This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn how to trick rope. I give away all my tips on how to get started, what types of ropes to use and how to perform all of the famous tricks. I have been...

Singing sensation and songwriting superstar Paolo Nutini was born in Paisley, Scotland. His father, Alfredo, is of Italian descent, from Barga, Tuscany, and his mother, Linda (Harkins), is Scottish. Nutini was expecting to follow his father into the family fish and chip shop business....

Anatol is a play by Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, published in 1893. It is a seven-act play set in late 19th century Vienna, depicting the many shallow and immature relationships of bourgeois playboy Anatol. The first act, "The question to fate", earned Schnitzler the...

Executives from the Second City--the world's premier comedy theater and school of improvisation--reveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses.For more than fifty years, the Second City comedy theater in Chicago has been a training...

Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "talking records" and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works. The book challenges assumptions of much contemporary criticism by taking the recorded, oral...

Would you like to make powerful Cold-reads (fake"psychic" readings) even though you're a complete beginner? This book is going to teach you the fundamentals of this fascinating art, that can literally build powerful, deep, instantaenous connections that astound everyone This guide contains all the...

Exclusive Magical Secrets was originally published by The Magician Ltd as a limited edition of 1000 in 1912. It was bound with a lock on the cover and became known as "The Locked Book of Magical Secrets". The author, Will Goldston, was born in...

It is common knowledge that one of the world's greatest magicians gave himself the stage name of Houdini. He was born as Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874. He emigrated to the United States of America with his mother and four brothers in 1878....

A compilation of photos from Janet Blair's career.Author: Brenda J. MillsISBN-10: 1440442916ISBN-13: 9781440442919Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2009Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.65d

After having met thousands of musicians and celebrities, James Hester decided to write a book about how life in the entertainment industry was not always glamorous to him. His book, "Rock Scars," chronicles his personal journey through entertainment and explores the essentials of being...

Note from Timothy's Mother: I pray that everyone that reads this book will encourage their child to find that special gift within. Let's continue to let our children know we all are special and need each others help every day. Show your child that...

The book "A Fender Bass for Britain" tells the story of a rare bass guitar made in 1966, the heyday of classic rock bands. Only a few of this particular bass with it's unique combination of features were ever made, and they mostly came...

Monologues by Gregory L. Hudson is a compilation of thirty-two monologues from some of his most profound stage plays, films and television pilots. The literary works that these monologues were chosen from are socially relevant, provocative and reflects the good and bad aspects of...

Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format. Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public. Because of the original condition of many of these historical manuscripts, imperfections are possible. The value of these manuscripts lies in their historical significance...

A collection of thirty brutally honest monologues, Moments of Truth delves into the minds of teen girls and young women and delivers the truth. Based upon real stories these monologues are presented workbook style with accompanying questions to assist the actor in developing their...

Learn a broad range of practical effects from which to construct an exciting and interesting impromptu mentalism program for a wide range of audiences and venues This volume will provide the reader a wide variety of impromptu mentalism effects suitable for performing with little...

A round-up of favorite westerns from "Aces and Eights" to "River of No Return", from "Colorado Sundown" to "Under California Stars", from "Big Calibre" to "The Yodellin' Kid from Pine Ridge". Featured stars include Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Bill Boyd, Charles Starrett, Buck Jones,...

Author: Dorothy VineISBN-10: 1425744559ISBN-13: 9781425744557Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/17/2008Pages: 452Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.01d

Breaking Into Song is a collection of articles, essays and interviews by Mel Atkey, the author of A MILLION MILES FROM BROADWAY -- MUSICAL THEATRE BEYOND NEW YORK AND LONDON and BROADWAY NORTH: THE DREAM OF A CANADIAN MUSICAL THEATRE.Author: Mel AtkeyISBN-10: 0991695739ISBN-13: 9780991695737Publisher:...

Lottery Post's 2009 Lottery Results Almanac United States Edition is an essential part of every lottery player's library, providing the fundamental data and accurate recounting of past winning numbers that is at the heart of every lottery system.Author: Todd NorthropISBN-10: 0982627203ISBN-13: 9780982627204Publisher: Speednet GroupLanguage:...

Reading Writing is a complete manual on entertaining with handwriting analysis, written specifically for mentalists and magicians. It contains a course in handwriting analysis and readings, and includes a dozen mentalism experiments presented with a handwriting analysis theme, and half a dozen close-up magic...

When I began producing pageants in 1983, I held Informational Meetings to tell prospective contestants about my pageant. If I could personally meet prospective contestants to explain the pageant process, I would have a better chance of getting these girls to attend my motivational...

In 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs created Tarzan, an orphaned English lord given a simian upbringing in the African jungle. The 'ape-man' has been an iconic character ever since. Tarzan: The Biography traces his history in prose, film, comic strips, comic books, radio, stage, television,...

The Mayor of Zalamea, Life's a Dream, The Great Theatre of the World In The Mayor of Zalamea, commissioned by the Royal National Theatre, peasants' honour clashes with military discipline. Life's a Dream is Calder's most famous philosophical play. The Great Theatre of the...

Now back in print, this one-of-a-kind volume of fifteen short symbolist plays from around the world, written between 1890 and 1918, is even more timely in today's turn to the spiritual and subjective modes of being. It includes often little-known plays by Strindberg, Maeterlinck,...

By far Strindberg's most aggressive work. The Father is a feverish nightmare of the struggle he saw between defiant masculinity and the treacherous weakness of women. Plays for Performance Series.Author: August Strindberg, Robert BrusteinISBN-10: 0929587863ISBN-13: 9780929587868Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1992Pages: 77Format: PaperbackWeight:...

In this unusual volume, Bradford Keeney depicts psychotherapy as a performing art. Emphasizing the advantages of improvising one's own therapeutic style, he presents a host of tried-and-true strategic interventions, a short course on brief intervention design, a way of "scoring'' conversations with clients much...

Cheerleading has become a staple in American culture. The cheerleader straddles two contradictory symbolic poles. This individual is an instantly recognized figure representing youthful attractiveness, leadership, and popularity. Yet, for many, the cheerleader is seen as epitomizing mindless enthusiasm, shallow boosterism, and objectified sexuality....

In this incandescent autobiographical collage, lyricist, playwright and performer Betty Comden takes an exuberant and rueful look back on a lifetime of celebrated triumphs and private sorrow. With her lifelong collaborator Adolph Green, she has achieved glorious success on stage in such musical milestones...

Essentially the story of WMMS, Radio Daze captures the radio scene during the '70s and '80s, chronicling how this small FM rock station became the top-rated station in Northeast Ohio and made Cleveland one of the most important radio markets in the world. Mike...

If the future is creative, is it any wonder that sometimes the church seems stuck in the past? Now is the time for the church to reclaim its role as a center of creativity. Among your members are artists, musicians and other creatives whose...

Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success. Arcadia is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his love for...

Blasted has been labelled as one of the landmark plays of post-war British theatre, achieving its iconic status and, indeed, its notoriety, very quickly. Sarah Kane's suicide in 1999 consolidated a process of singling-out that had begun four years earlier with the 'national outrage'...

(Music Sales America). Complete piano/vocal arrangements with chord diagrams of over 20 of this poet/songwriter/actor's greatest hits including: Ol' 55 * Jersey Girl * Shiver Me Timbers * and more.Author: Tom WaitsISBN-10: 0825625033ISBN-13: 9780825625039Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 11.84h x 9.04w...

Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot's Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of...

Combining black feminist theory, philosophy, and performance studies, Sarah Jane Cervenak ruminates on the significance of physical and mental roaming for black freedom. She is particularly interested in the power of wandering or daydreaming for those whose mobility has been under severe constraint, from...

From the end of Reconstruction to the eve of the Great Depression, Atlanta was the New South's "Gate City." Steve Goodson's social and cultural history looks at the variety of public amusements available to Atlantans of the day, including theater, vaudeville, dime museums, movies,...

Impressed by the success of The Birth of a Nation, Robert Goldstein, owner of a well-known Los Angeles costume supply house, produced his own epic film drama, The Spirit of '76 and screened it in Los Angeles shortly after America's entry into World War...

In its heyday Hollywood's big studio system mirrored the corporate ideology that catapulted the United States into economic prominence. By the mid-1920s power was consolidated into four major studios: Metro-Goldyn-Mayer, Paramount, Fox, and Warner Bros., all appropriating the assembly line approach of the Detroit...

The pipe organ, an instrument whose origins date to ancient Greece, is prominent in the development of secular and church music, and its builders were as artistic as the composers like Bach, Pachelbel and Handel who played them. This book describes the mechanics, fabrication,...

Science fiction is often considered the genre of ideas and imagination, which would seem to make it ideal for juveniles and young adults; however, the ideas are often dispensed by adults. This book considers the development of science fiction for children and teens between...

This study places the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) within its cinematic, sociological and critical contexts. It also locates the film within the personal and professional experiences of the author. The methodology depends upon a melding of first person narration with a...

Harry H. Corbett rose from the slums of Manchester to become one of the best-known television stars of the 20th century. Having left home as a 17-year-old Royal Marine during the Second World War, he fought in the North Atlantic and the jungles of...

The Shakespeare Made Easy series aims to take the fear out of Shakespeare. By having Shakespearean and Modern English facing each other, pupils will find it easier to comprehend the text. Through discussion of the life, work and theatre of Shakespeare pupils can gain...

Hey! Nietzsche! Leave them Kids Alone! Why do goths wear black? Why do rock singers make that 'jesus' shape on stage? Why do songs about death and despair make us feel good? And why can't you get no satisfaction? According to Craig Schuftan, it...

Bob Dylan's cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings have informed and productively re/shaped certain images of America from outside and within. Refractions of Bob Dylan collects scholarly essays which thoroughly investigate...

Here is a new voice--new to us--reaching across a gap of three hundred years. Sor (Sister) Juana In駸 de la Cruz was acclaimed in her time as "Phoenix of Mexico, America's Tenth Muse"; a generation later she was forgotten. In our century she was...

Drawing on recent archaeological investigations, new scholarship, and the author's own original research and staging experience, this book offers a new and fascinating picture of theatrical performance in the ancient world. Richard Beacham traces the history of the Roman theatre, from its origins in...

The results and implications of Alan Tyson's work on Mozart have had a profound impact on virtually every aspect of research on this composer: biography, chronology of compositions, working methods, stylistic analysis. Central, perhaps, are Tyson's discoveries on chronology: time and again he has...