Acting & Auditioning
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The Star Dressing Room: Portrait of an Actor
$32.50 Add to cartTHE STAR DRESSING ROOM: Portrait of An Actor is Alan Shayne’s affectionate, often uproarious new memoir that takes us back to Broadway’s golden age.
Fans of beloved theatre memoirs in the vein of Moss
- Author: Shayne, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1950544389
- Language: English
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Contemporary Monologues for Twentysomethings
$22.12 Add to cartThe theater of the 21st century, in many ways, is expanding to require new muscles of its actors, and so should their monologue choices. Contemporary Monologues for Twentysomethings is a compilation o… [more below]
- Series: Applause Acting
- Author: Bashline, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1495064859
- Language: English
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The Eight Characters of Comedy: Guide to Sitcom Acting &Writing
$24.95 Read moreThe Eight Characters of Comedy is the “How-To” guide for actors and writers who want to break into the world of sitcoms. It has become a staple in acting classes, writers’ rooms, casting offices and p… [more below]
- Author: Sedita, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0977064123
- Language: English
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275 Acting Games! Connected: A Comprehensive Workbook of Theatre Games for Developing Acting Skills
$24.95 Add to cartWith almost three hundred performance-tested acting games, this is the largest collection published to date. They were compiled from numerous workshops and study sessions. Includes a wide variety of p… [more below]
- Author: Levy, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 375
- Publish Date: April 30 2010
- ISBN10: 1566081696
- Language: English
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Dramatic Circumstances: On Acting, Singing, and Living Inside the Stories We Tell
$37.48 Add to cartDRAMATIC CIRCUMSTANCES: ON ACTING SINGING AND LIVING INSIDE THE STORIES WE TELL
- Series: Book
- Author: Wesbrooks, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1476823014
- Language: English
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Audition Monologues for Young Men
$18.95 Add to cartThis compelling collection of 70 monologues for young men approximately 15 to 30 years old includes a complete chapter that details how to choose a monologue, develop the character, and audition with
- Author: Ratliff, Gerald Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1566082080
- Language: English
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Women’s Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny
$18.62 Add to cartNever before has a monologue book been written completely by people who are actually funny for a living. This incredibly hysterical, cutting-edge collection of monologues will give an actress the extr… [more below]
- Series: Applause Acting
- Author: Gaddis, Alisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1480360422
- Language: English
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Speak with Distinction: The Classic Skinner Method to Speech on the Stage
$47.78 Add to cartWidely recognized as the most complete and rigorous text of its kind since it was first published in 1942, Speak With Distinction is an invaluable resource. It presents a comprehensive study of the so… [more below]
- Series: Applause Acting
- Author: Skinner, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1557830479
- Language: English
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Theatre Games for Young Performers
$18.95 Add to cartAny classroom teacher or group leader who wants to incorporate drama into an educational program will find this book concise and comprehensive. It tells the how, when, what, and why of theatre games f
- Series: Contemporary Drama
- Author: Novelly, Maria C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0916260313
- Language: English
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How to Make Your Audience Fall in Love with You
$19.95 Add to cartMaking an audience fall in love with you. That’s what great acting is all about-no matter whether you’re in a casting room, on a stage, in film, or on television. In How to Make Your Audience Fall in … [more below]
- Author: Warren, Deryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: January 31, 2013
- ISBN10: 0988226421
- Language: English
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The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to ACT
$21.99 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER, TIME MAGAZINE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, VOX, SALON, LIT HUB, AND VANITY FAIR “Entertainin- Author: Butler, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1639730761
- Language: English
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Back to the Body: Infusing Physical Life into Characters in Theatre and Film
$24.99 Add to cartBack to the Body: Infusing Physical Life into Characters in Theatre and Film guides you to experience and use your body and its energy as a basic point of departure for performance and expression. You
- Author: Rodrigue, Jean-Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 9, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218058951
- Language: English
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A Practical Handbook for the Actor
$17.00 Add to cartFor anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class, “this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years” (David Mamet, from the Introduction).
This book describes a technique develope… [more below]- Author: Bruder, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394744128
- Language: English
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Behind the Scenes
$20.95 Add to cart“Mick has been the catalyst for the most messed-up, funny, smart, low-budget, loud, subversive, hilarious, mind-expanding improv shows of his time.” Bob Odenkirk, star of “Better Call Saul.” In this f
- Author: Napier, Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 21, 2015
- ISBN10: 1566081998
- Language: English
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Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
$9.99 Add to cartWhen Streisand, Redford, Vereen, Tomlin, Midler, and Hoffman got their first breaks Michael Shurtleff was there.
Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows like Chicago and Becket- Author: Shurtleff, Michael
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 02 1979
- ISBN10: 0553272950
- Language: English
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175 Theatre Games
$16.95 Add to cartWhen students arrive for a theatre class, they appreciate a game or exercise that will loosen them up and activate their right brain – the artistic side. A good warm-up allows class members to tune in
- Author: Hurley, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: 1-Sep-09
- ISBN10: 1566081645
- Language: English
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Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood’s Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
$10.99 Add to cart“Kenneth Anger has fashioned a delicious . . . box of poisoned bonbons. Picking through the slag heap of the Hollywood dream factory, he] has put together a truly prodigious anthology of star-studded… [more below]
- Author: Anger, Kenneth
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 15 1981
- ISBN10: 0440153255
- Language: English
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Freeing the Natural Voice: Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language (Revised & Expanded)
$23.00 Add to cartA classic text for theatre and film it has sold 100,000 copies in its first edition.
- Author: Linklater, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 381
- Publish Date: October 17, 2006
- ISBN10: 0896762505
- Language: English
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Acting in Film: An Actor’s Take on Movie Making
$34.43 Add to cartA master actor who’s appeared in an enormous number of films, starring with everyone from Nicholson to Kermit the Frog, Michael Caine is uniquely qualified to provide his view of making movies. This n… [more below]
- Series: Applause Acting
- Author: Caine, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1557832773
- Language: English
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Improvise. 2nd Edition
$22.95 Add to cartThis expanded and revised edition has a new foreword by The Late Show host Stephen Colbert, additional advice and tips for success, and a full reproduction of Mick Napier’s web journal from his time d
- Author: Napier, Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 17, 2015
- ISBN10: 156608198X
- Language: English
