Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus

Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus similar books

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  An Actor Prepares

  Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.

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  The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide

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  Sanford Meisner on Acting

  This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecti…

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  Respect for Acting

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  Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

  When Streisand, Redford, Vereen, Tomlin, Midler, and Hoffman got their first breaks Michael Shurtleff was there.
  
  Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows like Chicago and Becket a…

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  M. Butterfly

  Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen
  
  "A brilli…

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  A Challenge For The Actor

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  Actioning - and How to Do It

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  The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

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  Top Girls

  Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of women's experience at a pivotal moment in British history. Told by an eclectic group of histori…

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  Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

  Here’s what started the phenomenon: the best seller, for over 15 years, that’s been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie …

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  Stop Kiss

  Ben Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to Diana Son's play Stop Kiss when he stated that it "generated the warmest advance word of mouth of any downtown production this sea…

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  True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

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  Eurydice

  Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and …

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  Medea

  One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the…

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  The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

  Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780735211735.
  
  A beautifully packaged daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, featuring new translations of the most celebrated Stoics with historical context and practical ti…

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  The Actor and the Target

  “Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn’t ‘second nature,’ it is ‘first nature.’”—Declan Donnellan
   
  This immensely popular and ever-practical book on acting takes a …

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  Topdog/Underdog

  A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names…

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  Machinal

  Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Ruth Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husba…

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  Staging Sex: Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy

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