Performing Arts Books


The Crucible (Penguin Classics)The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $6.07
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a great book to read with a mother-daughter book club. It...
August: Osage CountyAugust: Osage County
Best Price: $8.19
The Broadway performance features scintillating acting, a gorgeous set, and plenty of witty...
Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Best Price: $2.23
shakespeare has done it again... and thanks to amazon i was allowed to fully enjoy this great...
Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $1.57
Shakespeare was not very kind to the linchpin of his story. The tragedy of Macbeth the king...
Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $2.36
Innocent love is the most pure... and the sight of those who are in that beautiful whirlwind of...


Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
Best Price: $4.25
What can I say, it is the script to Our Town. I have found a couple of places where it differes...
Sock and Glove: Creating Charming Softy Friends from Cast-Off Socks and GlovesSock and Glove: Creating Charming Softy Friends from Cast-Off Socks and Gloves
Best Price: $7.23
This book was prefect. I was novice sewer with only little sewing knowledge when I bought this...
Hellboy II: Art of the Movie (Hellboy)Hellboy II: Art of the Movie (Hellboy)
Best Price: $14.40
Anyone who purchased the first Art of HELLBOY will not be disappointed by this...
Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $1.92
The most beautiful aspect of the play is Iago's ingenious deception of Othello. In every phrase,...
Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Best Price: $1.74
Julius Caesar is a classic book that everyone should read. This play of Shakespeare tells an...


A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Best Price: $1.95
For some bizarre reason, schools push the most painfully boring works by any author. In...
Wicked: The Grimmerie, a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hit Broadway MusicalWicked: The Grimmerie, a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hit Broadway Musical
Best Price: $19.95
If you've seen the play, you will LOVE this book. Great pictures, background, all the songs. ...
Backstage Pass: Broadway BaresBackstage Pass: Broadway Bares
Best Price: $31.99
had trouble with the first book being damaged and within a day of mentioning it i had another...
Wicked - Piano/Vocal ArrangementWicked - Piano/Vocal Arrangement
Best Price: $10.27
Wicked is fabulous on every level. Just know that this score is not easy to play from if you...
Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $0.01
Oh my! I love it! G.B. Shaw's character Henry Higgins is disdainful, petulant and impetuous. ...

Oedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone EditionOedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone Edition
Best Price: $3.99
THIS EDITION HAS SPACE FOR YOUR NOTES, AND ALONG THE SIDE IT HAS NOTES THAT HELP YOU BETTER...
Film Directing: Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)Film Directing: Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
Best Price: $14.99
This is a book about all the types os shots, but it has a serious problem. The writer doesn't...
The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $1.57
Most reviewers focus on the issue of religion - Shylock as a Jew - but fail to look past the...
No Exit and Three Other PlaysNo Exit and Three Other Plays
Best Price: $4.56
Estelle, Inez and Garcin expected to face all manner of torture in hell, but never expected hell...
Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library)Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $1.87
I've been avoiding Shakespeare for quiet a while because, first, English is not my first...

The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $1.57
I like Shakespeare, but the Bard was having an off day with this one. It rambled, it didn't...
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Secret Life of Raymond BurrHiding in Plain Sight: The Secret Life of Raymond Burr
Best Price: $15.55
This is a good basic biography, and I really should've given it 3 1/2 stars. That is, the...
An Actor PreparesAn Actor Prepares
Best Price: $10.95
This book is very informative and resourceful. It teaches you the true method of acting.
The Clean House and Other PlaysThe Clean House and Other Plays
Best Price: $10.72
I read a profile of Sara Ruhl in THE NEW YORKER and was intrigued by the lack of psychologizing...
Long Day's Journey into NightLong Day's Journey into Night
Best Price: $4.89
Eugene O'Neill's classic play, "Long Day's Journey into Night," is an autobiographical...

Sanford Meisner on ActingSanford Meisner on Acting
Best Price: $8.29
Mr. Meisner's book should be in your collection if you are a serious student..on the Mt Rushmore...
Inherit the WindInherit the Wind
Best Price: $5.16
It was written decades ago, inspired on a famous trial that had taken place years earlier, yet...
The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions)The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $0.01
This book has remained one of my favorites since reading it in high school ~5 years ago. I have...
Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $1.57
The Folger Shakespeare edition of this play gives it a leg up on other versions as far as...
The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Best Price: $1.61
This play is one of Shakespeare's most ribald, but I enjoyed it just the same. It's lusty,...

The Twilight Zone CompanionThe Twilight Zone Companion
Best Price: $10.05
I bought the 1st edition of The Twilight Zone Companion back in high school and was amazed at...
Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach (6th Edition) (MySpeechLab Series)Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach (6th Edition) (MySpeechLab Series)
Best Price: $25.00
I will never buy a book at my school bookstore again! This was a great buy, with a great price...
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
Best Price: $0.28
It helped me visualize my eight body positions in order to put them in practice. It also helped...
A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions)A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $0.01
A Doll's House is an outstanding play that brings up many topics into question, topics such as...
The Book of LizThe Book of Liz
Best Price: $4.99
The delivery was quick. This was something my daughter had on her Christmas list. She was very...

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever LivedModoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
Best Price: $5.20
I love true animal stories and this one came highly recommended by one of my reading friends. I...
The SeafarerThe Seafarer
Best Price: $8.11
I bought this because the Irish brogues were sometimes a little hard to understand on-stage,...
Acting: The First Six Lessons. (Theatre Arts Book)Acting: The First Six Lessons. (Theatre Arts Book)
Best Price: $13.00
if you take your performing arts as seriously as i do, then this is the book for you... read it...
Truth in Comedy: The Manual of ImprovisationTruth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation
Best Price: $10.77
This is the first improv book I haver ever read; as a result, I was very new to the concept of...
A Streetcar Named DesireA Streetcar Named Desire
Best Price: $4.08
When I was 13 I unearthed two pieces of interesting horror from digging around in the family...

The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century AmericaThe Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America
Best Price: $16.02
While I think the author spent too much time fleshing out the varied and obscure disputes...
The Theater Experience Tenth EditionThe Theater Experience Tenth Edition
Best Price: $28.00
I read this text for my theater appreciation class. As a theater major that already knows most...
The Comedy Bible: From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" GuideThe Comedy Bible: From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide
Best Price: $5.75
Have other reviewers who rated this so highly really read the other available books? ...
Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & TelevisionDirecting Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television
Best Price: $13.47
I had absolutely no knowledge of the acting process before I read this book. And I 'm not at...
Wit : A PlayWit : A Play
Best Price: $6.71
Simple, poignant and funny. I saw the movie starring Emma Thompson and was moved to read the...

Conditioning for DanceConditioning for Dance
Best Price: $15.25
I highly recommend this book by Eric Franklin. I am currently ordering more of his books after...
Impro: Improvisation and the TheatreImpro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Best Price: $17.21
Honestly, I don't know why there are so many positive reviews for this book. I purchased this...
The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, ImmediateThe Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
Best Price: $4.50
I am not very knowledgeable about Theatre and certainly not about Theory of Theatre. I found...
Dynamic Alignment Through ImageryDynamic Alignment Through Imagery
Best Price: $18.78
There was nothing wrong with this product. My daughter dropped the class in college that...
The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural Series)The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural Series)
Best Price: $7.76
this book by far is my favorite book on the worlds fair the detail and quality of the book is...

Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading PlaysBackwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
Best Price: $12.25
It seems like reading would require no specific techniques, that they would come naturally to...
The Book of Shadows : The Unofficial Charmed CompanionThe Book of Shadows : The Unofficial Charmed Companion
Best Price: $8.43
i couldnt wait to get it i really enjoyed this to my collection of charmed items a must have...
The Prop Builders Molding & Casting HandbookThe Prop Builders Molding & Casting Handbook
Best Price: $12.23
I have no experience in casting, and don't want to make any more costly mistakes than necessary....
Hollywood Creative Directory, 63rd Edition (Hollywood Creative Directory)Hollywood Creative Directory, 63rd Edition (Hollywood Creative Directory)
Best Price: $40.92
The up-to-the-minute guide to finding entertainment pros * Comprehensive and...
Modern Coin MagicModern Coin Magic
Best Price: $5.96
Modern Coin Magic, or the 'Bobo Book', is one of the CLASSICS of coin manipulation and deserves...

A Challenge For The ActorA Challenge For The Actor
Best Price: $14.82
This book - a systematization of Stanislavsky's four cluttered books and a testimony to...
101 Drama Games for Children: Fun and Learning with Acting and Make-Believe (SmartFun Activity Books)101 Drama Games for Children: Fun and Learning with Acting and Make-Believe (SmartFun Activity Books)
Best Price: $8.95
I have been an acting teacher for nine years and an co-author of my own acting book...
Painting With LightPainting With Light
Best Price: $20.03
This book is really great. Written in the fifties it still seems very relevant to me today. ...
  
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