Performing Arts

Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, Tom Stoppard's witty and exhilarating play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.Tom Stoppard's reputation as a playwright was made when his dazzling debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, opened...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999527016Author Warner LoughlinFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Howland Tilley PressPublisher Howland Tilley PressWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615271996Author Peter K ElkusFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Peter K ElkusPublisher Peter K ElkusWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This unsettling black comedy about private passion and public shame is based on Zoe Heller's acclaimed novel, adapted for the screen by celebrated dramatist Patrick Marber (Closer). When art teacher Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett) arrives at a London...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544528Author Erika BalsomFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In 1909, Canterbury antiquarian Percy Maylam published his research and remarkable photographs of the fascinating Kent tradition of the hooden horse. He caught the custom in its last traditional phase, but his work inspired a revival after the Second...

Film Analysis offers concise analyses of fifty diverse and historically significant films-each written exclusively for the text by a leading scholar. Written with the undergraduate in mind, the essays are clear, readable, and great models for students to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080354Author Garry Michael KlugerFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 315g

Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using...

Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck-to name a few-maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male admirers, thanks to studio publicity departments. But off...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557047700Author Michael ArndtFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Newmarket Press,U.S.Publisher Newmarket Press,U.S.

A fast-talking wise-ass from the Bronx, Jerry Weintraub became a millionaire at 26 by handling some of the biggest acts in show biz, most famously Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. The last of the great Hollywood moguls, Jerry is probably best known as...

In the context of a frantic world that celebrates instantaneity and speed, a number of cinemas steeped in contemplation, silence and duration have garnered significant critical attention in recent years, thus resonating with a larger sociocultural...

The greatest movies endure for many reasons: they give us comfort, laughter, drama and suspense. They thrill us with their powerful storytelling and bring us fabulous characters that linger on in the imagination. And then, of course, they showcase the...

This work examines major box office hits like "The Full Monty" as well as critically acclaimed films like "Under the Skin". It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisation of British film culture, Hollywood and Europe, changing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995536210Author Christopher RipleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Eskdale & Kent Publishing LtdPublisher Eskdale & Kent Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999315610Author Richard Vaughan DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Mitford Oak PressPublisher Mitford Oak PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

From Aristophanes to Zeffirelli, from Gerard Depardieu to Mae West, in Break a Leg! Michele Brown has assembled a world-beating cast, including actors, dramatists, directors and even critics (`A man who knows the way but cannot drive the car.' Kenneth...

In this book, world-renowned theatre artist Pamela Howard OBE shows how her life has always been part of the art of making theatre. Part memoir, part a personal account of artistic creation, it is a work of art in its own right. Its 12 chapters,...

Industrial Light & Magic Presents: Making Solo: A Star Wars Story is an eyewitness account of the film's production from visual effects supervisor and coproducer Rob Bredow. The book gives readers an intimate glimpse into the journey that Solo took from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988392298Author Adam ChamberlainFormat PaperbackImprint Fourth HorsemanPublisher Fourth HorsemanWeight(grams) 744g

When the young composer Douglas Cohen first secured the musical rights to the novel No Way to Treat a Lady by William Goldman-the acclaimed author of The Princess Bride and Marathon Man-he hoped it would be his big break, the first step on a gilt path to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733324024Author Craig SchuftanFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint ABC BooksPublisher ABC BooksWeight(grams) 475g

In Stanislavski and the Actor , Stanislavski scholar and biographer Jean Bendetti has recovered materials that can stand as a final, last work by the great director and teacher. In this volume readers will find the first English text of Stanislavski s...

This book is for working film/TV professionals and students alike. If you're a line producer, production manager, production supervisor, assistant director or production coordinator--the book has everything you'll need (including all the forms,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880101424Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press Inc

Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense. Thirty years later I wrote an entirely new book with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620400654Author Glenn FrankelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 538g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907728Author Kim HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills If you're auditioning for a musical - or needing to choose a song to perform for an exam, showcase or drama-school application -...

The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English.The classic Japanese plays can be read for their great literary merit and also provide the reader with an understanding of a unique theatre art and important insights into...

In The Revolution Was Televised, celebrated TV critic Alan Sepinwall chronicles the remarkable transformation of the small screen over the past fifteen years. Focusing on twelve innovative television dramas that changed the medium and the culture at...

From The Lion King to Moose Murders and from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, celebrate the Drama Desk Award-winning artwork of Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo with more than 250 of his theatre poster designs from Broadway, Off-Broadway,...

A Star Wars authority deepens and extends our appreciation of the Star Wars galaxy with this imaginative "history" featuring striking full-color artwork-created exclusively for this entertaining volume-that examines the persuasive messages used to...

Movies from and about Ireland have attracted huge augiences, capturing top international prizes (""The Crying Game"") and an Academy Award (""My Left Foot""). In this text, contributors take a variety of approaches to the treatment of films and film...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615933204Author Jerry LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

For decades, generations of television fans have been enraptured by Lt. Columbo, played by Peter Falk, as he unravels clues to catch killers who believe they are above the law. In her investigation of the 1970s series cocreated by Richard Levinson and...

First released in 1987, Near Dark is a vampire film set in the contemporary American Midwest that tells the story of Caleb, a half-vampire trying to decide whether to embrace his vampire nature or return to his human family. The film, an early work of...

The full story of one of France's greatest cinema legends, a clown whose film-making innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form.Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakable with his pipe, brolly and striped socks, was a creation of slapstick...

The definitive guide to designing for theatre - by an award-winning designer with over 160 productions to his name. With a Foreword by Alison Chitty. A theatre designer needs to be able to draw on a wide spectrum of skills, work collaboratively with...