The Perfect Stage Crew: The Compleat Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater
ISBN: 1581153155 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1st Author(s): John Kaluta Publisher: Allworth Press Number of Pages: 256
Here is an indispensable nuts-and-bolts guide to putting on a stunning low-budget show in less than 40 days The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common as well as most complex stage performance problems Readers without Broadway-size budgets and resources will learn the low-cost low-tech approaches to painting scenery building sets hanging lights setting cues and operating sound Theyll also find crucial guidance for generating publicity preparing tickets technical rehearsals and more
Written in a clear direct and jargon-free style
Features 45 lively anecdotes from the authors own experience working in virtually every backstage capacity
Stage Money: The Business of the Professional Theater
ISBN: 1570039062 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Tim Donahue, Jim Patterson Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Number of Pages: 176
Stage Money is a groundbreaking guide to understanding professional theater finances today through the use of the tools and metaphors of the business world at large This approach results in a comprehensive picture of the economic realities of theater production that is radically different from the assessments typically espoused elsewhere Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson combine their experiences in the financial and creative aspects of theater production to present in straightforward prose their keen insights into the micro- and macro-economic aspects of the commercial stage Tangible data charts and graphs are counterbalanced with illuminating "intermissions" between chapters and interspersed sidebars throughout to provide specific examples of key concepts collectively presenting an expansive overview of the contemporary theater business Stage Money is an unparalleled tool for theater professionals and enthusiasts interested in garnering a better understanding of the business's inner workings at present and its challenges for the future
Light Fantastic: The Art and Design of Stage Lighting
ISBN: 3791343718 Binding: Hardcover Edition: 3rd Revised edition Author(s): Max Keller Publisher: Prestel USA Number of Pages: 300
Now available in a completely revised updated and expanded edition this book is the definitive guide to stage lighting design by a virtuoso in the field As beautiful as it is instructive this award-winning book on all aspects of theatrical lighting design has become the standard resource in the field Light Fantastic has received accolades from the theater community including the Golden Pen Award from the Institute for Theater Technology and Outstanding Academic Title award from Choice magazine Now in its third edition Light Fantastic has been expanded to include breathtaking new photographs from author Max Keller s most recent productions The text has been brought up to date to reflect the latest technological advances while new essays on light in architecture lighting for music concerts and the metaphysics and politics of light broaden its scope Keller s extensive knowledge and experience on some of the world s most celebrated stages make him the definitive source for veterans or those new to the field of stage lighting Throughout the book hundreds of vibrant color photographs convey the excitement of live performance This remarkable volume is an indispensable handbook to stage lighting design
Theater Yearbook 1988-1989: The Complete Broadway and Off-Broadway Sourcebook (Applause/Best Plays Theater Yearbook)
ISBN: 1557830576 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): N/A Publisher: Applause Books Number of Pages: 676
The Applause Best Plays Yearbook was started by Burns Mantle in 1919 and has appeared every year since then becoming the standard reference book for American Theater This volume features synposes and excerpts for the ten best plays of the 1988-1989 season including: Aristocrats The Cocktail Hour Eastern Standard Emerald City Gus and Al The Heidi Chronicles Lend Me a Tenor Other People's Money Road Shirley Valentine This value-packed volume also includes Al Hirschfeld's complete gallery of the theater season as well as essays and statistics about the season around the United States the Off-Off-Broadway season the various awards and more Also includes lots of photos from the productions
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
Staging Philosophy: Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
ISBN: 0472069500 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): N/A Publisher: University of Michigan Press Number of Pages: 344
The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use these insights to develop new theories about theater Each of the contributorsleading scholars in the fields of performance and philosophybreaks new ground presents new arguments and offers new theories that will pave the way for future scholarship
Staging Philosophy raises issues of critical importance by providing case studies of various philosophical movements and schools of thought including aesthetics analytic philosophy phenomenology deconstruction critical realism and cognitive science The essays which are organized into three sectionshistory and method presence and receptiontake up fundamental issues such as spectatorship empathy ethics theater as literature and the essence of live performance While some essays challenge assertions made by critics and historians of theater and performance others analyze the assumptions of manifestos that prescribe how practitioners should go about creating texts and performances The first book to bridge the disciplines of theater and philosophy Staging Philosophy will provoke stimulate engage and ultimately bring theater to the foreground of intellectual inquiry while it inspires further philosophical investigation into theater and performance
David Krasner is Associate Professor of Theater Studies African American Studies and English at Yale University His books include A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre Drama and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance 1910-1920 and Renaissance Parody and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre 1895-1910 He is co-editor of the series Theater: TheoryTextPerformance
David Z Saltz is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia He is coeditor of Theater Journal and is the principal investigator of the innovative Virtual Vaudeville project at the University of Georgia
ISBN: 0300082487 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Gordon Rogoff Publisher: Yale University Press Number of Pages: 320
In this outstanding collection of critical writings some published here for the first time Gordon Rogoff tells the story of live theater in America over the past forty years His view of modern drama and its performance is rich with the insights of both a discerning critic and an individual for whom the making of theater is a passion As Rogoff explores the topics of acting directing playwriting Shakespeare productions opera and theater criticism he celebrates live theater's victories over new realms while deploring the threat of imitative repertories acting styles and playwriting Throughout the book he underscores his conviction that dramatic literature and performance may be taken as a book of instruction for the way we lead our livesRogoff ranges widely in his discussions considering the work of Peter Brook Robert Wilson Ariane Mnouchkine Samuel Beckett Tennessee Williams Alban Berg and Tony Kushner among others and the performances of such actors as Laurence Olivier Donald Wolfit Judi Dench Anthony Hopkins Dustin Hoffman Al Pacino Lee I Cobb Vanessa Redgrave and Geraldine Page He registers dissenting notes about the accomplishments of Joseph Papp Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller In his concluding essays Rogoff contends that nostalgia -- "our millennial nemesis" -- may be a way of forgetting rather than remembering
ISBN: 0802150306 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Antonin Artaud Publisher: Grove Press Number of Pages: 159
A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938 The Theater and Its Double is the fullest statement of the ideas of Antonin Artaud We cannot go on prostituting the idea of the theater the only value of which is in its excruciating magical relation to reality and danger he wrote He fought vigorously against an encroaching conventionalism he found anathema to the very concept of theater He sought to use theater to transcend writing to break through the language in order to touch life
The Musical: A Look at the American Musical Theater
ISBN: 155783217X Binding: Paperback Edition: Rev Sub Author(s): N/A Publisher: Applause Books Number of Pages: 320
This revised and expanded edition of Kislan's acclaimed study of America's musical theater includes a new section on "Recent Musical Theater: Issues and Problems" "The ancient union of drama and song known as musical theater comes in many forms - vaudeville burlesque comic opera minstrels etc The author reviews these and other highlights of American musicals with a fascinating background on the elements that contribute to the success of a Showboat" - King Features "Worth study by anyone who still thinks that the musical is a collection of songs" - The Stage
