SYNOPSIS: The complete 8-year curriculum of Leningrad's famed Vaganova Choreographic School, which trained Nureyev, Baryshnikov, and Makarova, including over 100 photographs. A volume which no teacher, scholar, or student of the dance can afford to miss. “A serious, indeed indispensable, textbook.” –Clive Barnes

SYNOPSIS: Improv comedy has been popularized in the U.S. and U.K. by the hit television show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” but improv has been around giving people laughs and goosebumps for a long time. 101 Improv Games For Children and Adults is an accessible guide to this magical art of creating something out of nothing — and bringing an... Read More

SYNOPSIS: Compiled and edited by Gavin Levy A comprehensive workbook of theatre games. There are more than a hundred performance-tested theatre games in this unusually comprehensive collection. They were compiled after more than fifteen years of workshops and study sessions. Included are a wide range of proven activities to... Read More

SYNOPSIS: Thirteen plays by the Oscar-winning author of Moonstruck. Includes: “The Big Funk,” “Savage in Limbo,” “Danny & The Deep Blue Sea,” “Welcome to the Moon,” “The Red Coat,” “Down & Out,” “Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night,” “Out West,” “A Lonely Impulse of Delight,” “Women of Manhattan,” “The Dreamer Examines His Pillow,”... Read More

SYNOPSIS: The games and exercises in this book are designed to be used as warm-ups at the beginning of a theatre class. They have been used successfully with middle school students and they can easily be adapted for use with younger children, older teens and adults in various settings. The games are divided into 13 sections: Easy... Read More

SYNOPSIS: With almost 300 performance-tested acting games, this is the largest collection published to date compiled from numerous workshops and study sessions. The book includes a wide variety of proven activities for learning, acting and theatre-industry skills. The book is divided into 33 sections including: Audition, Concentration... Read More

SYNOPSIS: Thirty ten-minute plays collected from Actors Theatre of Louisville’s National Ten-Minute Play Contest. This book is comprised of short plays for three actors.

SYNOPSIS: A workbook of comedy characterizations for students. These are professional-level comedy monologues three to five minutes long easily performed by high school actors. Most all of the characterizations can be effectively performed by either sex. The emphasis is on comedy and social satire. Nothing is sacred, yet all... Read More

SYNOPSIS: This practical reference manual, with its precise, authentic instructions on how to speak in more than 100 dialects, has established itself as the most useful and comprehensive guide to accents available, now increased by a third in this revised printing. As before, the accents range from regional U.S. and British dialects to... Read More

SYNOPSIS: Actors who want to get inside the script and make it come alive now have a step-by-step guide from a Broadway director and renowned acting teacher. Honed by the author's 35 years of teaching, this advanced book offers different warm-up exercises concentrating on the actorís sense of smell, sound, sight, and touch; sensory tools... Read More