Acting & Auditioning
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Audition Monologues for Young Women #1
$18.95 Add to cartThis collection of 72 monologues and eight duo scenes features fresh, imaginative character portraits for young women that capture vivid attitudes, images, and speeches of realistic characters drawn f
- Author: Ratliff, Gerald Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 1566081807
- Language: English
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Acting for Life
$22.95 Add to cartThis comprehensive textbook is aimed at high school and college level drama students who have the maturity to understand that of all the arts, drama – with its exploration of human characters and rela… [more below]
- Author: Frakes, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: March 13 2006
- ISBN10: 1566081076
- Language: English
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Right for the Role: Breakdowns, Breakups and Breakthroughs From 35 Years of Casting Iconic TV Shows
$14.95 Add to cartWhile there are many books that catalog Hollywood-from the classic to the profane, gritty to salacious-few tell the tale of how entertainment’s biggest names became the biggest names.
Right for the R
- Author: Levey, John Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: August 24 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985225389
- Language: English
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Working Actor: My Brilliant Unsuccessful Career
$14.99 Add to cartWe’ve read the celebrity memoirs – the deep dives into the lives of the (maybe) 2% of actors who ever make it BIG. But what’s life like for the other 98%? In this intimate and sometimes comic account,
- Author: Beaven, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0995349045
- Language: English
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A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method
$18.00 Add to cart“The definitive source book on acting.”–Los Angeles Times
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Hopper, Robert DeNiro, Marilyn Monroe, and Joanne Woodward–these are only a f- Author: Strasberg, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 201
- Publish Date: October 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0452261988
- Language: English
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Audition Playbook: Optimal Planning for Orchestral Audition Success
$24.99 Add to cartThe Audition Playbook is a two-part guide and workbook designed to help musicians of all instruments and levels efficiently and effectively plan and prepare for orchestra, band, or other ensemble audi
- Author: Jenkins, Rachelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0578559463
- Language: English
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Improv Ideas–Volume 2: A New Book of Games and Lists for the Classroom and Beyond
$22.95 Add to cartYou’ve loved their first two best-selling books on improv for the classroom, so these two fabulously creative and entertaining devotees to theatre have done it again! All the best from those two top-s
- Author: Jones, Justine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1566081955
- Language: English
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62 Comedy Duet Scenes for Teens
$20.95 Add to cartThis work features easily staged scenes with believable teen characters in various comic situations. People can’t get enough of Laurie Allen’s comedy duet scenes! Based on the popularity of her “Sixty
- Author: Allen, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1566081866
- Language: English
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An Actor’s Companion: Tools for the Working Actor
$15.95 Add to cart“There is a muscularity, not to mention wisdom and truth, to Seth’s techniques. He is a wonderful teacher, and I know that having him as my first guide is one of the luckiest things to have happened t… [more below]
- Author: Barrish, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1559367962
- Language: English
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Will Power: How to Act Shakespeare in 21 Days
$26.93 Add to cartWILL POWER: HOW TO ACT SHAKESPEARE IN 21 DAYS
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Basil, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1557836663
- Language: English
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Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life
$16.99 Add to cartNow in his 85th year, Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares wisdom and stories from his remarkable career in this “engrossing” memoir that “shines with positive energy” (Library Journal, starred revie… [more below]
- Author: Caine, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0316451185
- Language: English
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Brat: An ’80s Story
$16.99 Add to cartFans of Patti Smith’s Just Kids and Rob Lowe’s StoriesI Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1538754290
- Language: English
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Thinking Shakespeare (Revised Edition): A Working Guide for Actors, Directors, Students…and Anyone Else Interested in the Bard
$22.95 Add to cartThinking Shakespeare gives theater artists practical advice about how to make Shakespeare’s words feel spontaneous, passionate, and real. Based on Barry Edelstein’s thirty-year career directing Shake
- Author: Edelstein, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1559365749
- Language: English
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Kids’ Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny
$14.99 Read moreThis book is the answer to the comedic monologue needs of kid actors – and their parents – everywhere. Kids’ Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny is specifically geared for children ages 5-12. D… [more below]
- Series: Applause Acting
- Author: Gaddis, Alisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1495011763
- Language: English
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The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition
$19.95 Add to cartThe Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers de
- Author: Bogart, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1559362413
- Language: English
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Finding Fame: The Insider’s Guide to Real Entertainment Industry Connection$
$28.95 Add to cartIMAGINE that tomorrow you could . . .
- Be face-to-face with an Academy Award-winning director, talking about your ambitions and hearing their advice
- Speak directly to a casting director who works with so
- Author: Fomkin, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885811132
- Language: English
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Sixty Comedy Duet Scenes for Teens
$20.95 Add to cartPerfect for classroom practice or for an evening of entertainment, middle school and high school teens will easily recognize themselves in these believable – and funny – school situations such as dati… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1566081521
- Language: English
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On the Technique of Acting
$17.99 Add to cartThe most authoritative, authentic text of a classic guide to acting
In the four decades since its first publication, Michael Chekhov’s To the Actor has become a standard text for students of the theate
- Author: Chekhov, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0062730371
- Language: English
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Discovering the Clown, or the Funny Book of Good Acting
$17.95 Add to cart“Christopher Bayes is a master, an extraordinary visionary who has done more to liberate young American actors over the last two generations than I can possibly express. His classes in Clowning are ph
- Author: Bayes, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1559365617
- Language: English
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Speaking Shakespeare
$27.00 Add to cartIn Speaking Shakespeare, Patsy Rodenburg tackles one of the most difficult acting jobs: speaking Shakespeare’s words both as they were meant to be spoken and in an understandable and dramatic way. Rod… [more below]
- Author: Rodenburg, Patsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: July 16 2004
- ISBN10: 1403965404
- Language: English
