Running Theaters: Best Practices for Leaders and Managers
ISBN: 1581153937 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Duncan Webb Publisher: Allworth Press Number of Pages: 256
The best practices that consistently lead to successful theater operation are now revealed in this comprehensive resource Culled from surveys and interviews with theater managers and experts in crucial functional areas this guide provides important tips for all people who work or want to work in regional campus and community-based theaters Proven strategies from managers staff and volunteer leaders cover virtually every aspect of running a theater - from audience development and fundraising to facility development and community involvement
Advice culled from interviews with more than 100 experts in the field
PLAYBUILDING AS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: A PARTICIPATORY ARTS-BASED APPROACH (Developing Qualitative Inquiry)
ISBN: 1598744771 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Joe Norris Publisher: Left Coast Press Number of Pages: 272
This book is for both art-based researchers and research-informed artists exploring the theatrical genre known as Collective Creation or Playbuilding Performers generate data around chosen topics from addiction and sexuality to qualitative researchby compiling scenes from their disparate voices Audience members become involved in the investigation and the performed scenes do not end the conversation but challenge and extend it Through discussion and audience participation the process examines how knowledge is defined and how data is mediated
Towards a Poor Theatre (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback))
ISBN: 0878301550 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1 Author(s): Jerzy Grotowski Publisher: Routledge Number of Pages: 272
Originally published in 1968 Jerzy Grotowski's groundbreaking book is available once again As a record of Grotowski's theatrical experiments this book is an invaluable resource to students and theater practioners alike
The Art of Voice Acting, Fourth Edition: The Craft and Business of Performing Voiceover
ISBN: 0240812115 Binding: Paperback Edition: 4 Author(s): James Alburger Publisher: Focal Press Number of Pages: 432
Are you just starting in Voiceover Do you have some experience but aren't getting booked Are you a working pro who wants to expand to new areas of VO work
The Art of Voice Acting is a must read if you are serious about a profession in voice over and looking to maximize your efforts for success in the business Packed with basic acting techniques in The Art of Voice Acting you will discover All new scripts 20 more pages of new and updated information A completely new chapter of studio stories and 'tricks-of-the-trade' from professional voiceover talent around the world Updated information for voiceover demos and marketing A comprehensive index that makes it easy to find what you're looking for More voice and acting techniques Contributions from some of the top voice talent in the world An all new audio CD with the actual audio for every script in the book PLUS: exercises demos and more Written in an accessible and engaging style Alburger shares his experience as a performer producer director and performance coach to give you a clear no nonsense introduction to the business and art of voice acting
Learn insider tips on marketing finding work making audition tapes and establishing yourself as a professional voice over actor New chapter 'Tricks of the Trade' explains how to maximize your efforts and avoid pot holes in the industry Perfect your performing skills using easy-to-follow voice exercises and demos on CD Rom
ISBN: 1557833737 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Stella Adler Publisher: Applause Books Number of Pages: 275
Stella Adler was one of the 20th Centurys greatest figures She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history Over her long career both in New York and Hollywood she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors including Marlon Brando Warren Beatty and Robert De Niro The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly caught and encapsulated by Howard Kissel in the twenty-two lessons in this book Hardcover
Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy (Theatre Arts (Routledge Hardcover))
ISBN: 0878300732 Binding: Hardcover Edition: New edition Author(s): Jay Sankey Publisher: Routledge Number of Pages: 232
In this engaging and disarmingly frank book comic Jay Sankey spills the beans explaining not only how to write and perform stand-up comedy but how to improve and perfect your work Much more than a how-to manual Zen andthe Art of Stand-Up Comedy is the most detailed and comprehensive book on the subject to date
The Problem of the Color[blind]: Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
ISBN: 0472051261 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Brandi Wilkins Catanese Publisher: University of Michigan Press Number of Pages: 244
"Catanese's beautifully written and cogently argued book addresses one of the most persistent sociopolitical questions in contemporary culture She suggests that it is performance and the difference it makes that complicates the terms by which we can even understand 'multicultural' and 'colorblind' concepts A tremendously illuminating study that promises to break new ground in the fields of theatre and performance studies African American studies feminist theory cultural studies and film and television studies" ---Daphne Brooks Princeton University "Adds immeasurably to the ways in which we can understand the contradictory aspects of racial discourse and performance as they have emerged during the last two decades An ambitious smart and fascinating book" ---Jennifer DeVere Brody Duke University Are we a multicultural nation or a colorblind one The Problem of the Colorblind examines this vexed question in American culture by focusing on black performance in theater film and television The practice of colorblind casting---choosing actors without regard to race---assumes a performing body that is somehow race neutral But where exactly is race neutrality located---in the eyes of the spectator in the body of the performer in the medium of the performance In analyzing and theorizing such questions Brandi Wilkins Catanese explores a range of engaging and provocative subjects including the infamous debate between playwright August Wilson and drama critic Robert Brustein the film career of Denzel Washington Suzan-Lori Parks's play Venus the phenomenon of postblackness (as represented in the Studio Museum in Harlem's "Freestyle" exhibition) the performer Ice Cube's transformation from icon of gangsta rap to family movie star and the controversial reality television series Black White Concluding that ideologies of transcendence are ahistorical and therefore unenforceable Catanese advances the concept of racial transgression---a process of acknowledging rather than ignoring the racialized histories of performance---as her chapters move between readings of dramatic texts films popular culture and debates in critical race theory and the culture wars
ISBN: 1594744882 Binding: Cards Edition: Author(s): N/A Publisher: Quirk Books Number of Pages: 96
All the worlds a stage And with this extraordinary kit you can dramatize the most memorable scenes in all of theatre Contents include:
Sixty finger puppet cards featuring Shakespeares most famous characters includingHamlet Lady Macbeth King Lear Othello Shylock and Falstaff Twelve stand-up sets of castles forests balconies and battlements A 96-page folio of classic scenesfrom Hamlets To Be or Not to Be soliloquy to Romeoand Juliets classic balcony serenade
Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts
ISBN: 0807846074 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Alan E. Steinweis Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Number of Pages: 243
From 1933 to 1945 the Reich Chamber of Culture exercised a profound influence over hundreds of thousands of German artists and entertainers Alan Steinweis focuses on the fields of music theater and the visual arts in this first major study of Nazi cultural administration examining a complex pattern of interaction among leading Nazi figures German cultural functionaries ordinary artists and consumers of culture Steinweis gives special attention to Nazi efforts to purge the arts of Jews and other so-called undesirables Steinweis describes the political professional and economic environment in which German artists were compelled to function and explains the structure of decision making thus showing in whose interest cultural policies were formulated He discusses such issues as insurance minimum wage statutes and certification guidelines all of which were matters of high priority to the art professions before 1933 as well as after the Nazi seizure of power By elucidating the economic and professional context of cultural life Steinweis helps to explain the widespread acquiescence of German artists to artistic censorship and racial 'purification' His work also sheds new light on the purge of Jews from German cultural life
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