Performing Arts
Explore performing arts books about theater, film, dance, acting, music performance, stagecraft, and entertainment history. Find titles for students, performers, teachers, fans, and readers who love live and screen performance.
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Games for Actors and Non-Actors
Reinventing Drama: Acting, Iconicity, Performance
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A Dream of Passion
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Feeling Theatre
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Confessions of a Casting Director: Help Actors Land Any Role with Secrets from Inside the Audition Room
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The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of an Actor
An Actor's Craft: The Art and Technique of Acting
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Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life
This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age
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A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio
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The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character: The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
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On the Technique of Acting
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Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage: Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced
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The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer
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Teaching Acting with Practical Aesthetics
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Re-Purposing Suzuki: A Hybrid Approach to Actor Training
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Your Body Knows: A Movement Guide for Actors
Theatre & Human Rights
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Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan
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The Phoenician Scheme
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Writing Great Characters in the First Ten Pages
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Book to Screen: How to Adapt Your Novel Into a Screenplay
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Sunshine: A Screenplay
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