Individual actors and performers

At 47, Tim Derk had long been the San Antonio Spurs crowd-pleasing Coyote and was widely regarded as the NBAs funniest, most inventive mascot.

Understanding the role of combat in the Iraq war is essential for both the American people and the U.

This eclectic, funny, and moving book tracks a life lived in music and words.

The deeply personal story of artist, activist, and influencer Laetitia Ky, told through the powerful sculptures she creates with her own hair that embrace Black culture and beauty, the fight for social justice, and the journey toward self-love.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, no Canadian band rocked harder, louder or to more hardcore fans than Teenage Head.

Gabriela Zapolska (1857-1921) was an actor, journalist and playwright.

Clowns' slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform.

European stardom is very different from that of Hollywood, where the industry concentrates intensively on establishing and promoting major stars.

The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the form but they have also drawn criticism that documentaries now promote entertainment at the expense of truth.

A beautiful, uplifting celebration of the life of The Hairy Bikers Dave Myers from his widow.

Whereas Humphrey Bogart is always at the top of any list of the Entertainment Industry's most famous actors, very little is known about how he clawed his way to stardom from Broadway to Hollywood.

From famed celebrity biographer Darwin Porter, this is the most honest and journalistically important biography of Michael Jackson ever published, with a roster of literary reviews that outnumber and outclass any other MJ bio on the market.

Five Conversations About Peter Sellers is an essay that begins as an exploration of the author's burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in hijacking and derailing production of the spy spoof, Casino Royale, in the late 60s.

This is a pioneering and posthumous biography of a charismatic icon of Tinseltown whose rule over the hearts of American moviegoers lasted for more than half a century.

This volume explores the issue of collaboration: an issue at the centre of Performance Arts Research.

This long-awaited book is the first full-length study of the work of the extraordinary contemporary black British playwright, debbie tucker green.

This interdisciplinary book brings together essays that consider how the body enacts social and cultural rituals in relation to objects, spaces, and the everyday, and how these are questioned, explored, and problematised through, and translated into dance, art, and performance.

Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come.

This book offers new ways of thinking about dance-related artworks that have taken place in galleries, museums and biennales over the past two decades as part of the choreographic turn.

This book examines the theatrical movement-based pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq (1921-1999) through the lens of the cognitive scientific paradigm of enaction.

This book analyses the work of applied theatre practitioners using a new framework of 'responsivity' to make visible their unique expertise.

In the first book-length study of the work and legacy of West End actor-manager George Alexander since the 1930s, George Alexander and the Work of the Actor Manager examines the key part this figure played in presenting new drama by authors including Oscar Wilde and Henry James.

This book reflects the changes in technology and educational trends (cross-disciplinary learning, entrepreneurship, first-year learning programs, critical writing requirements, course assessment, among others) that have pushed theatre educators to innovate, question, and experiment with new teaching strategies.

This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager.

This book addresses the notion posed by Thomas Kilroy in his definition of a playwright's creative process: 'We write plays, I feel, in order to populate the stage'.

Five Conversations About Peter Sellers is an essay that begins as an exploration of the author's burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in hijacking and derailing production of the spy spoof, Casino Royale, in the late 60s.

This book critically examines matters of age and aging in relation to dance.

Beckett's plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances - that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as 'disabled' in the text.

Recent technological and scientific developments have demonstrated a condition that has already long been upon us.

Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production of Bernard Shaw's plays in America.

Directors have long been the main figures on Eastern European stages.

Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and continues to influence contemporary stand-up comedy.

The voices that are represented in this collection come from various parts of the world and express the views of practitioners and scholars who have all had first-hand experience working in Zimbabwean theatre from the last days of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.

This book examines a series of contemporary plays where writers put theatre itself on stage.

This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this impacts on the relationship between live performance and death.

How should a free society protect privacy?

This book is about the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship.

This book offers an analysis of public service broadcasting (PSB) in European Countries that highlights the issues - both legal and not - currently facing PSB.

Das Lexikon enthält sämtliche für die Sprechwissenschaft relevanten Begriffe – insgesamt etwa 1000 Lemmata, ausgewählt auf Basis der sprechwissenschaftlichen Fachliteratur der letzten vierzig Jahre.

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.

This book provides insights into current issues in corporate governance by examining twelve cases from the 2010s and 2020s where corporate governance was seen to be an issue.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning, multihyphenate global entertainer Keke Palmer comes the inspiring true story of her journey to understanding her genuine value.

Analysing Gender in Performance brings together the fields of Gender Studies and Performance Analysis to explore how contemporary performance represents and interrogates gender.

A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American culture "e;A charming .

'We come for the glitter, but instead we get the grit, in stories told with insight, tenderness and joy.

The honest and heartfelt memoir of vocal powerhouse and music legend Bonnie TylerYou know the name and you can't mistake the voice.

Stella Adler towers high among the memorable acting teachers in American theatre.

Clint Eastwood-actor, director, composer, musician, and politician-is undeniably one of the most prolific and accomplished celebrities of the modern age.

'A blast' - Ian Rankin'A lively celebration of 1980s action stars' - The Times'Hugely entertaining' - Edgar WrightNow with BONUS MATERIAL, from the editor of Empire magazine this is the behind-the-scenes story of the golden age of the action movie, the stars who ruled 80s and 90s Hollywood and the beloved films - from Die Hard to The Terminator - that made them famous.

This book explores how comedian Stephen Colbert's satiric views of American life have captured the imagination of viewers around the world-and sharpened these individuals' own critical interpretations and opinions on current events.