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Until very recently, directing wisdom was passed on in the form of "tips". Continuing this tradition, you will find them ranging from the way set a scene to directing the actor on the way to laugh. The tips are clear, concise, evocative, and constructed to give you a better day in rehearsal and performance. A buffet of ways to improve immediately that you'll refer to over and over again!
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Expert, Practical Advice for Everyone in Show Business
Now updated and expanded, this second edition of The Stage Producer's Business and Legal Guide is the ultimate survival kit for anyone presenting live entertainment. The information contained in this handbook is essential for those working in Broadway, regional, stock, or university theater; concert halls; opera houses; and more. Attorney, producer, and playwright Charles Grippo provides comprehensive...
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Celebrate Earth Day with a play! Mrs. Moreno's class came up with great Earth Day projects. They focused on local foods, natural ingredients, recycling, upcyclcling, and tree planting. But it isn't enough without community. Logan, Zack, Grace, and Ella are ready to share their enthusiasm with their neighbors. Can they bring Earth Day to their community in style? Discover everything you need to put on a readers' theater, advanced readers' theater or...
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Celebrate Halloween with a play! What's the best thing about Halloween? Will and Kyrsten would say candy. But James and Emma would say getting scared! Just in time for the spooky holiday, the old Miller mansion has a new resident. Is it a ghost? or a Ghoul? Or something none of the kids could even imagine? Discover everything you need to put a readers' theatre, advanced readers' theater, or full production with this guide and readers' theater script....
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Explains what is needed to put on a play, and provides the script for a Thanksgiving-themed play. Maddy adores Thanksgiving--family, Grandpa's mashed potatoes, even a treasure hunt and roasting marshmallows--tradition is everything. But this year, her parents have different plans. Can Maddy learn to love her favorite holiday in a new way?
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With hands-on advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide to starting a theater company imparts essential backstage know-how for would-be playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and successfully navigating tricky legal issues. Chronicling three seasons at Chicago's award-winning Congo Square Theatre Company, this journey behind the...
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When a renowned theater director senses something amiss during his latest production, he calls in Nero Wolfe. Though the corpulent genius wouldn't normally accept a job this vague, a mutual friend dangles the prospect of a very rare orchid in exchange for his services, and Wolfe can't resist. With a mind to suss out useful backstage gossip, Wolfe turns to his faithful assistant, Archie Goodwin, to impersonate a journalist in order to speak to the...
14) Asteroid City
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[2023]
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The production of a play is frought with drama and romance in and of itself, from its writing and casting to rehearsals and staging. Onstage, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events while each attendee and their family members deal with their own interpersonal issues.
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"Here are the stories behind the filming of Norman Mailer's 'Maidstone' and Samual Beckett's 'Film'; the battles with the US government over 'Tropic of Cancer' and much else; the search for Che's diaries; the development of the legendary 'Evergreen review'; Rosset's romance with the expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, and more. At times appalling, more often inspiring, never boring or conventional: this is Barney Rosset, uncensored"--Front jacket...





