Theatre: The Lively Art ISBN: 0073382167 Binding: Paperback Edition: 7 Author(s): Edwin Wilson, Alvin Goldfarb Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Number of Pages: 464 Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb combine the best of theatrical elements and history in this best-selling introductory text Theatre: The Lively Art is designed both to prepare and inspire students to become lifelong audience members if not actual participants in theatre With its clear narrative concise presentation and vibrant visual program Theatre: The Lively Art is appropriate for introductory theatre courses at any college or university The seventh edition continues to highlight the diversity within theatre while streamlining the text's organization and updating its coverage of the latest processes techniques and technologies in theatrical design and production Click Here To Compare Prices Now Introduction to Theatre Arts Teacher's Guide: A 36-Week Action Workbook for Middle Grade and High School Students and Teachers ISBN: 1566080916 Binding: Paperback Edition: Teacher Author(s): Suzi Zimmerman Publisher: Meriwether Pub Number of Pages: 356 This companion guide to the student's action workbook makes teaching this class easy and fun It includes the answers to all questions It provides lesson plans a weekly calendar a survival guide for a substitute poster ideas evaluation forms hand-outs planning materials for fundraising events and awards More teaching-assists than you will ever need Click Here To Compare Prices Now The Art of Theatre: Then and Now ISBN: 0495391042 Binding: Paperback Edition: 2 Author(s): William Missouri Downs, Wright, Erik Ramsey Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Number of Pages: 512 THE ART OF THEATRE: THEN AND NOW Second Edition explores issues of diversity and creativity presents a full day-in-the-life of theatre and offers comprehensive coverage of theatre history The authors make timely and relevant connections between theatre and the familiar world of television and film to help students understand how the living art of theatre relates to and influences today's screen entertainment For flexibility in the way you teach THE ART OF THEATRE is available in two versions THE ART OF THEATRE: THEN AND NOW contains 17 chapters 7 of which cover theatre history in both Western and non-Western contexts THE ART OF THEATRE: A CONCISE INTRODUCTION features 12 chapters and a briefer treatment of theatre's key movements Click Here To Compare Prices Now The Art of Theatre: A Concise Introduction ISBN: 0495391034 Binding: Paperback Edition: 2 Author(s): William Missouri Downs, Wright, Erik Ramsey Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Number of Pages: 352 EXPERIENCING THE ART OF THEATRE explores issues of diversity and creativity presents a full day-in-the-life of theatre and offers briefer coverage of theatre history The authors make timely and relevant connections between theatre and the familiar world of television and film to help students understand how the living art of theatre relates to and influences today's screen entertainment Click Here To Compare Prices Now Theatre: Its Art and Craft ISBN: 074253913X Binding: Paperback Edition: 6 Author(s): Stephen Archer Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Number of Pages: 288 An introductory theatre text focusing on theatre practitioners and their processes Using an accessible tone and a focused exploration of how theatre artists work the book centers on playwrights directors actors; designers of sets costumes props lights sound and new technology; as well as the varying roles of scholars critics and dramaturgs Appropriate for beginning theatre majors minors or nonmajors Theatre: Its Art and Craft helps students understands how theatre happens who makes it and what they do Click Here To Compare Prices Now The Art of Ancient Greek Theater ISBN: 1606060376 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): N/A Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum Number of Pages: 176 The Art of Ancient Greek Theater considers the vibrant imprint that ancient Greek tragedy and comedy left on the visual arts of classical Greece Theatrical performance as we know it originated in the mid-sixth century BC with choral dances held in honor of Dionysos the Greek god of wine and patron of the theater The great tragedies by Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides as well as the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander are preserved as some of the worlds most renowned literature and have formed the basis for theater performance as it is still practiced Beyond being popular in their day these plays inspired an array of lively paintings and sculpture and those works represent in some cases the only evidence we have of some of the plays from ancient Greece Over ninety of these objectspottery vases sculpture reliefs and masksfrom museums across Europe and the United States are featured in this book The nine insightful essays and over 130 illustrations reveal the Greek origins of theater and their multifaceted expression in the visual arts Click Here To Compare Prices Now Career Opportunities in Theater And the Performing Arts ISBN: 0816062897 Binding: Paperback Edition: 3 Author(s): Shelly Field Publisher: Checkmark Books Number of Pages: 320 For those who wish to appear on stage as well as those who prefer to work behind the scenes "Career Opportunities in Theater and the Performing Arts Third Edition" profiles more than 70 jobs in all branches of theater and the performing arts The appendixes have been completely reviewed and updated and two new profiles have been added - celebrity personal assistant and vocal coach Career profiles include: ActorActress Booking agent Casting director Celebrity personal assistant Costume designer Drama coach Playwright Theatrical press agent Vocal coach and more Click Here To Compare Prices Now Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation (Leonardo Books) ISBN: 0262042355 Binding: Hardcover Edition: annotated edition Author(s): Steve Dixon Publisher: The MIT Press Number of Pages: 825 Winner 2008 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics given by the Media Ecology Association (MEA) and Winner Music and the Performing Arts category 2007 ProfessionalScholarly Publishing Awards for Excellence Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers Inc The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance and new forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations on CD-ROM and on the Web In Digital Performance Steve Dixon traces the evolution of these practices presents detailed accounts of key practitioners and performances and analyzes the theoretical artistic and technological contexts of this form of new media art Dixon finds precursors to today's digital performances in past forms of theatrical technology that range from the deus ex machina of classical Greek drama to Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk (concept of the total artwork) and draws parallels between contemporary work and the theories and practices of Constructivism Dada Surrealism Expressionism Futurism and multimedia pioneers of the twentieth century For a theoretical perspective on digital performance Dixon draws on the work of Walter Benjamin Roland Barthes Jean Baudrillard and others To document and analyze contemporary digital performance practice Dixon considers changes in the representation of the body space and time He considers virtual bodies avatars and digital doubles as well as performances by artists including Stelarc Robert Lepage Merce Cunningham Laurie Anderson Blast Theory and Eduardo Kac He investigates new medias novel approaches to creating theatrical spectacle including virtual reality and robot performance work telematic performances in which remote locations are linked in real time Webcams and online drama communities and considers the "extratemporal" illusion created by some technological theater works Finally he defines categories of interactivity from navigational to participatory and collaborative Dixon challenges dominant theoretical approaches to digital performanceincluding what he calls postmodernisms denial of the newand offers a series of boldly original arguments in their place Click Here To Compare Prices Now Theater Geek: The Real Life Drama of a Summer at Stagedoor Manor, the Famous Performing Arts Camp ISBN: 1439145768 Binding: Hardcover Edition: 1 Author(s): Mickey Rapkin Publisher: Free Press Number of Pages: 240 What do Natalie Portman Robert Downey Jr Zach Braff and Mandy Moore have in common Before they were stars they were campers at Stagedoor Manor the premier summer theater camp for children and teenagers Founded in 1975 Stagedoor continues to attract scores of young performers eager to find kindred spirits to sing out loud to become working actorsor maybe even stars Every summer for the past thirty-five years a new crop of campers has come to the Catskills for an intense often wrenching introduction to professional theater (The camp produces thirteen full-scale productions during each of its three sessions) These kids come from varying backgroundsthe offspring of Hollywood players from Nora Ephron to Bruce Willis work alongside kids on scholarship Some campers have agents others are seeking representation When Mickey Rapkin a senior editor at GQ and self-proclaimed theater fanatic learned about this place he fled Manhattan for an escape to upstate New York At Stagedoor he tracked a trio of especially talented and determined teen actors through their final session at camp Enter Rachael Singer Brian Muller and Harry Katzman three high school seniors closing out their sometimes sheltered Stagedoor experiences and graduating into the real world of industry competition and rejection These veteran campersstill battling childhood insecurities but simultaneously searching for that professional gig that will catapult them to famepour their souls into what might be their last amateur shows Their riveting stories are told in Theater Geek an eye-opening laugh-out-loud chronicle full of drama and heart but also about the business of training kids to be professional thespians and in some cases child stars (The camp has long acted as a farm system for Broadway and Hollywood attracting visits from studio executives and casting directors) Via original interviews with former and current campers and staffincluding Mandy Moore Zach Braff and Jon CryerRapkin also recounts Stagedoor Manors colorful star-studded history: What was Natalie Portmans breakout role as a camper What big-time Hollywood director then barely a teenager dated a much older Stagedoor staff member Why did Courtney Love (at Stagedoor visiting her daughter) get into an argument with a hot dog vendor who had set up shop at the camp Theater Geek leads readers through the triumphs and tragedies of the three senior campers final summer in an absorbing thought-provoking narrative that reveals the dynamic and inspiring human beings who populate this world It also explores what the proliferation of theater camps says about our celebrity-obsessed youth and our most basic but vital need to fit in Through the rivalry heartbreak and joy of one summer at Stagedoor Manor Rapkin offers theater geeks of all ages a dishy illuminating romp through the lives of serious child actors Rich insightful and thoroughly entertaining Theater Geek pulls back the curtain on an elite and intriguing world to reveal whats really at its core: children who simply love to perform Click Here To Compare Prices Now Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater ISBN: 081095303X Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Eric P. Nash Publisher: Abrams ComicArts Number of Pages: 304 Before giant robots space ships and masked super heroes filled the pages of Japanese comic books--known as manga--such characters were regularly seen on the streets of Japan in kamishibai stories Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater tells the history of this fascinating and nearly vanished Japanese art form that paved the way for modern-day comic books and is the missing link in the development of modern manga During the height of kamishibai in the 1930s storytellers would travel to villages and set up their butais (miniature wooden prosceniums) through which illustrated boards were shown The storytellers acted as entertainers and reporters narrating tales that ranged from action-packed westerns period pieces traditional folk tales and melodramas to nightly news reporting on World War II More than just explaining the pictures a good storyteller would act out the parts of each character with different voices and facial expressions Through extensive research and interviews author Eric P Nash pieces together the remarkable history of this art and its creators With rare images reproduced for the first time from Japanese archives including full-length kamishibai stories combined with expert writing this book is an essential guide to the origins of manga Click Here To Compare Prices Now | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next >>

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