Authors:Neil Offen, Stephen Peithman,
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Keywords: stage, directions, audience, guides, getting, guide, keeping
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1999-05-05
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0325001138
ISBN-13: 9780325001135

This book shows you how a theatre attracts and maintains the audience it needs.

Author: David Spencer
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Keywords: guide, survival, writer, theatre, musical
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0325007861
ISBN-13: 9780325007861

David Spencer has written a book full of truths a young writer will not find articulated anywhere else. Most of us in the theatre gained our "experience" by making mistakes and learning from them. David’s book lets you gain the "experience" and skip the mistakes part. Anyone maneuvering the treacherous waters of musicals will find it not nearly so lonely or baffling with this remarkable volume as a companion. - Richard Maltby, Jr., Director/Lyricist, Miss Saigon, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Baby Consider The Musical Theatre Writer’s Survival Guide your new best friend in the

Author: Davis Rider Robinson
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Keywords: handbook, comedy, physical
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1999-04-26
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0325001146
ISBN-13: 9780325001142

The Physical Comedy Handbook is a one-of-a-kind resource for actors, teachers, and directors interested in physical comedy

Author: Mick Napier
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Keywords: inside, scene, improvise
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-03-03
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 032500630X
ISBN-13: 9780325006307

For more than 20 years of directing, teaching, and participating in improvisation, Mick Napier has watched thousands of scenes. His experience as founder of the acclaimed Annoyance Theatre/Annoyance Productions, as well as Resident Director and Artistic Consultant for The Second City, has led him to continually question why and how scenes work or don’t work and what one must do in order for a scene to be successful. In this book, Napier takes an irreverent, but constructive look at the art and practice of improvised scenes. He covers such topics as: two-person scenes group scenes ente

Authors:Jimmy Carrane, Liz Allen,
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Keywords: improviser, working, guide, improvising
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2006-09-26
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0325009422
ISBN-13: 9780325009421

Improvising Better is an easy to read self-help book created with the new generation of improviser in mind. It’s written for today’s performers, looking for a quick fix to their performance problems. This book is a fast read with long-lasting results. Jimmy Carrane and Liz Allen have improvised, taught, and directed in Chicago for over thirty years combined, and have either seen or experienced the most common problems facing improvisers today. Improvising Better will give you simple tools for repairing your improvisation through original and enhanced exercises. This book addresses

Author: Tim Dial
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Keywords: stage, millinery, basic
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-07-12
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 032500336X
ISBN-13: 9780325003368

Whether a beret or brimmed, straw, felt, or cloth, a pillbox or conehats can define a time and place, be it on the street or on stage. In this practical workbook, Tim Dial takes readers through the process of design and construction of hats.

Author: Greg Dean
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Keywords: comedy, stand
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-07-13
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0325001790
ISBN-13: 9780325001791

Essential for the aspiring comic or the working comedian interested in updating his or her comedy routine, Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy is the most comprehensive and useful book ever written on the art of the stand-up comedian.