Performing arts

'That night, I'd survived my life flashing before me, with my dignity intact.

Pygamalion tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette.

The Gentlemen in the White Hats by C.

“A psychologically nuanced, tough-minded portrait” of the New York filmmaker and his relationships with Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn (Publishers Weekly).

Gordy LaSure's passionate about film.

Aristotle''s ''Poetics'' is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.

The instant Sunday Times bestseller From brutal schooldays to 80s anarchy, through The Young Ones, Bottom and beyond, Berserker!

The master acting teacher Richard Boleslavsky presents his acting theory and technique in a lively and accessible narrative form.

Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Sports, this essay is about Lost.

Russell H.

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete.

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend who makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge.