How to Rehearse When There Is No Rehearsal

Robert Blumenfeld, Alice Spivak

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• This practical book on the subject of how to act, based on Ms. Spivak's forty years of acting, coaching, and teaching classes - first at Herbert Bergh... Lees meer

Billy Wilder in Hollywood

Maurice Zolotow

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• "A double delight: a richly entertaining biography of both screenwriter-director Wilder and his milieu - Hollywood... a fascinating montage of a man w... Lees meer

Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas

Alonso Duralde

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE CHRISTMAS: A GUIDE TO ALL THE SEASONS HOLIDAY FILMS Lees meer

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Dave Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show is simultaneously one of the iconographic touchstones of 1970s cinema, and a timeless romp that appeals equally to every... Lees meer

Blumenfeld's Dictionary of Musical Theater

Robert Blumenfeld

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• Have you heard of the first American musical, The Black Crook , which opened in 1866 and had fifteen revivals? Do you know Oscar Straus's hilarious pa... Lees meer

Kurt Weill on Stage

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• His best-known song is "Mack the Knife " with words by Bertolt Brecht, from The Threepenny Opera , first performed in Weimar Berlin in 1928. Five year... Lees meer

Acting with the Voice

Robert Blumenfeld

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• Blumenfeld convincingly argues that the basic techniques of acting apply whether the actor is performing onstage or in a sound studio. Numerous practi... Lees meer

Getting the Part

Judith Searle

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• "At last, an in-depth book about the casting process that tells actors what it is like to be on the other side of the desk, and a must read for the as... Lees meer

The Theater of Heiner Muller

Jonathan Kalb

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• The revised and enlarged edition of the first comprehensive English-language study of the work of Heiner Müller, widely regarded as Bertolt Brecht's s... Lees meer

Actors Talk about Shakespeare

Mary Z Maher

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• Bravo, Shakespeare. Even today, his plays challenge celebrated actors to hone their skills and electrify audiences. Imagine the process actors undergo... Lees meer

Film Noir Reader 2

Alain Silver

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• Generously includes film stills and essays on crime films, The Postman Always Rings Twice , "Hitchcock's Noir Landscape " "Samuel Fuller's Tabloid Cin... Lees meer

Stages

Norman Lloyd

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• "Reading like a who's who of Broadway and Hollywood...âthisã is a valuable piece of theatrical history...Lloyd is a self-effacing, articulate actor-di... Lees meer

Working on a New Play

Edward M Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• "âTheã invaluable Working on a New Play ...arrived, to my overwhelming delight and mental profit; I began and finished it in one long, insatiable, and... Lees meer

Three Plays By George Kelly

George Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• Ranging from rollicking farce to gentle satire to bitter domestic drama, these plays - Torchbearers , The Show-Off , and Craig's Wife - reveal Kelly a... Lees meer

The Gospel Sound

Anthony Heilbut

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• This book relays the complete history of gospel music, paying special attention to the relationship between gospel and other African American musical ... Lees meer

Diary of a Somebody

John Lahr

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• Screenplay to John Lahr's successful dramatization of The Orton Diaries that chronicles the last eight months of Joe Orton's life, his growing theatri... Lees meer

Film Noir Reader

Alain Silver

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• The earlier Film Noir Readers , which now boast a combined sale of well over 30 000 copies, have all quite deliberately conveyed a sweeping overview o... Lees meer

First Intermissions

M Owen Lee

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• For well over twenty years, M. Owen Lee has been offering intermission talks during the Saturday afternoon Texaco Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, which... Lees meer

Red and Hot

S Frederick Starr

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• "...that rare thing, a piece of careful scholarship that is also superby entertaining...Starr, who is president of Oberlin College and has been associ... Lees meer

Jean Arthur

John Oller

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• The luminous star of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Shane , and other classic films was, as the subtitle aptly puts it, "the actress nobody knew." Jean... Lees meer

Aspects of Verdi

George Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• This collection of original essays ranges widely among the composer's interests and achievements: from his religious views to his skill as a cook, fro... Lees meer

Lucille Lortel

Alexis Greene

• Hardcover | Engels | Limelight
• Written under the auspices of The Lucille Lortel Foundation, this book is the first biography of the grande dame of avant garde theater. Lucille Lorte... Lees meer

Acting in the Million Dollar Minute

Tom Logan

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• While television commercials often elicit groans from the viewer, they mean work for actors and can be the bread-and-butter backbone of an actor's car... Lees meer

Mingus/Mingus

Janet Coleman

• Paperback | Engels | Limelight
• Janet Coleman and Al Young first met Charles Mingus in the 1950s at the University of Michigan. From there they followed him to New York, sitting in o... Lees meer