Performing arts

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Have you ever been curious about what it takes to get an original Broadway musical to opening night?

It began as an artist's desperate desire to express himself inside a worldwide pandemic, but in one year's time it has grown into a theater industry and country-wide outlet for healing, grief, justice, and hope in the theater community.

John Corcelli, author of Frank Zappa FAQ, takes a deep dive into the comedic artistry of George Carlin, one of America's most important funny men.

It's 1982 and the Ramones are in a gutter-bound spiral.

Planet of the Apes started life in 1963 as a quirky work by Pierre Boulle, the French literary novelist famous for The Bridge over the River Kwai.

The MAP: An Actor's Guide to On-Camera Acting teaches on-camera acting in a practical and technical way-helping new actors understand the rules of on-camera acting as if they are learning a foreign language and applying that language to their acting skill set.

When it comes to earthshaking songs-the ones that signal a tectonic shift in the current musical landscape-there is "e;Johnny B.

For more than 50 years John Waters has been staging a coup against the good taste of the American public.

Bollywood, a popular nomenclature for India's "e;national"e; film industry in the Hindi language, along with the Taj Mahal, yoga, Buddha, and Mahatma Gandhi, is one of the best-known introductions and universally recognized associations with India across the world today.

Looking for a comprehensive chronicle of the films of legendary director, screenwriter, and producer John Hughes?

People Best New BookThe inside story of the making of Mean Girls - and our enduring 20-year obsession with itReleased in 2004, iconic teen comedy Mean Girls remains as relevant now as ever.

All the world loves a clown and whether you want to clown around at parties or make a living as a standup comic, comedian Judy Carter can show you how to "do" comedy.

'Little madnesses' are our most deeply felt enthusiasms, investments and attachments in the sphere of culture.

All the Classroom's a Stage reveals how teachers can apply theater skills to the craft of teaching and enhance their ability to engage and motivate students, cultivate collaborative learning, and become stronger and more dynamic 'performers' in the classroom.

With the aim to help teachers design and deliver instruction around world films featuring child protagonists, Cultivating Creativity through World Films guides readers to understand the importance of fostering creativity in the lives of youth.

Newly revised and updated, this is the essential guide to state-of-the-art digital storytelling for audiences, creators, and teachers.

Bollywood, a popular nomenclature for India's "e;national"e; film industry in the Hindi language, along with the Taj Mahal, yoga, Buddha, and Mahatma Gandhi, is one of the best-known introductions and universally recognized associations with India across the world today.

With simple and evocative words, calligraphy, and home photos of the words in action, grandfather and granddaughter team Chungliang and Sylvia bring the spirit of Tai Ji to life.

The Alexander Technique is a specific form of mind/body practice that focusses on improving efficiency through learning and understanding movement and behavior.

Drawing on avant garde and classical Japanese dance traditions, the Alishina Method offers a systematized approach to Butoh dance training for the first time in its history.

"e;Marx Brothers authority Bader has done a remarkable job successfully uncovering the story of the unknown brother, revealing a genuinely complex character.

The Last Bohemian offers the first extended, critical evaluation of all of Brian Desmond Hurst's films, reappraising the reputation of a director who was born in 1895 in Belfast and died in Belgravia, London, in 1986.

Soccer has the unique ability to represent and strengthen different cultural identities and ideologies throughout the world.

In African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story, scholar and musician Bruce Conforth tells the story of one of the most unusual collections of African American folk music ever amassed-and the remarkable story of the man who produced it: Lawrence Gellert.

Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century.

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Deflecting the attention from Hollywood, Stars in World Cinema fills an important gap in the study of film by bringing together Star Studies and World Cinema.

In 2009, 16 and Pregnant premiered on MTV, closely followed by the spinoffs Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2.

Though drug use was widespread in the nineteenth century, the negative influence of narcotics was mostly unknown.

Sarah Caldwell: The First Woman of Opera is the first biography of this significant musician, conductor, and director and documents Ms.

From Robinson Crusoe's cave to Henry Selwyn's hermitage, the domestic interior tells a story about "e;things"e; and their relation to character and identity.

In the early decades of the 20th century, Sheldon Cheney was the American theatre's zealous missionary for modernism.

In the wake of the 1688 revolution, England's transition to financial capitalism accelerated dramatically.

Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era's international scene.

Broadway productions of musicals such as The King and I, Oliver!

From Robinson Crusoe's cave to Henry Selwyn's hermitage, the domestic interior tells a story about "e;things"e; and their relation to character and identity.

Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book PrizeA Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction BookThe captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain - from a woman at the heart of the women's liberation movement.

From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked to manufacture stars.

The freedom to go anywhere and become anyone has profoundly shaped our national psyche.

Consuming Visions explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization.

The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales.

The essays in this collection make a contribution to the greening of film studies and expand the scope of ecocriticism as a discipline traditionally rooted in literary studies.

'Massively enjoyable' Dawn FrenchI Carried a Watermelon is a love letter to Dirty Dancing.

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2021WINNER OF 2021 LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR'Extraordinary.

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