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Theatrical Design and Production: An Introduction to Scene Design and Construction
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J Michael Gillette
This comprehensive and practical survey examines the technical and design aspects of play production, including scene design and construction, lighting, sound, costume, and makeup. Design is presented as both an art closely integrated with the director's, actor's, and playwright's vision, and a craft that provides practical solutions for the ...
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Scene design and stage lighting
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W Oren Parker, R Craig Wolf
This established and respected text for courses in scene design and stage lighting offers a contemporary viewpoint from two experienced authors. This edition has been redesigned and updated, reflecting changes in the field.
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The Stagecraft Handbook Stagecraft Handbook
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Daniel A Ionazzi
This manual covers every aspect of scenery c onstruction, with information on shop organisation, tools, s afety, scaled drawings and materials as well as construction techniques. A wealth of illustrations help show how to make quick, inexpensive scenery. '
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A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art in Theatre
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Anne Bogart
"A Director Prepares" aims to offer a thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly of the courage required to create "art with great presence". Each chapter tackles one of the seven major areas Bogart has identified as both potential partner and potential obstacle to art-making: violence; ...
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Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information
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Paul Carter, George Chiang (Illustrator)
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Ellie
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Lesley Pearse
Ellie is a sweet-natured brunette, generous of heart with a sparkling smile and an accent which reveals her East End background. Bonny is beautiful and spoilt, with cascades of blonde hair, the brightest pair of blue eyes and a mouth like Cupid's bow. The two girls meet in London at the end of the war when, seduced by two American airmen, they ...
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The Playbill Broadway Yearbook
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Robert Viagas (Editor)
Many people who work on Broadway keep scrapbooks of their experiences, with photos, signed posters, ticket stubs, and of course Playbills. "Playbill Books" has expanded this idea into an annual project that is becoming a Broadway institution: "The Playbill Broadway Yearbook". Taking the form of a school yearbook, the fourth edition is packed with ...
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Pal Joey
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John O'Hara
On the seedy side of Chicago, Joey Evans is a poor man's Bing Crosby, a wise-cracking crooner down on his luck but always on the make. In his letters to a pal in New York he gives the lowdown on his shady escapades, run-ins with the mob and easy affairs with the prettiest "mice" in the business.
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The Theater Props Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Theater Properties, Materials and Construction
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Thurston James
"Excellent photographs and precise instructions abound. James' style and humor enhance this extremely clear, comprehensive manual". -- Library Journal
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Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub
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Rosa Lowinger, Ofelia Fox
Of all Cuba's nightclubs and cabarets, Tropicana has always held place of honor. Part casino and part cabaret it was all Cuban: the only nightclub owned and run by Cubans rather than by the American mob. TROPICANA NIGHTS brings back the days and nights of its greatest glory, in the 1940s and 1950s, when Havana was one of the most sophisticated and ...
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Technical Theater for Nontechnical People
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Drew Campbell, Ph.D.
This guide to technical theatre for non-technicians walks the reader through every aspect of the backstage environment, from scenery and lighting to sound and props, as well as stage management. Included are survival guides for essentials such as hanging lights, painting, and getting through dress rehearsals. Those in convention planning, fashion, ...
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Cabaret
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Lisa Appignanesi
This captivating book presents a uniquely comprehensive cultural history of cabaret, where the most radical of artists, poets, writers, musicians, and theatre directors have gathered since 1881. Lisa Appignanesi takes us to the original cabaret - the smoke-filled rooms of the Chat Noir in Paris that served as a meeting place for the avant-garde ...
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The Flamingo Rising
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Larry Baker
Abe's father builds an extravagant drive-in theater next door to an equally extravagant funeral parlor, beginning a rivalry that has repercussions for Abe when he falls in love with the daughter of his father's enemy.
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Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret
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James Gavin
- Fully revised updated and expanded edition of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award winner that sold more than 10,000 copies - Cultural history plus celebrity anecdotes - Up-to-the-minute look at the current New York cabaret scene Intimate Nights is the definitive history of cabaret as it evolved in New York City in the years after World War II. But ...
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Stagecraft 1: A Complete Guide to Backstage Work
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William H Lord
Twenty chapters detailing all of the fundamentals -- everything the aspiring stage technician needs to know to get started in backstage work! All sections highlighted with photographs, illustrations and diagrams. Major topics include: stage and rigging; production staff; properties; sound; lumber, tools and hardware; scenery construction; lighting ...
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Sound and Music for the Theatre: The Art & Technique of Design
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Deena Kaye, James LeBrecht
This is the only comprehensive text that discusses the aesthetics of sound design for the stage. It is a practical and comprehensive guide to the field of sound design, covering the designer's relationships within the theater community and detailing the process of sound design. The focus is on design approaches and techniques, rather than ...
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Turn-Of-The-Century Cabaret
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Professor Harold B Segel, Professor Howard Segel
Traces the history of the European cabaret, discusses the types of entertainment that developed in cabarets, and explains their connection with avant-garde movements.
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Essays on Shakespeare
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William Empson
This collection of essays features major analyses of "Hamlet" and "Macbeth," a defense of Falstaff, an essay on Renaissance playhouse architecture and discussion of recent advances in Shakespearian scholarship,.
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At This Theatre: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Stars
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Louis Botto (Editor), Robert Viagas (Editor)
Theatregoers' favourite history of Broadway is back in a new and expanded edition. Including more than 100 new photographs and Playbill covers, the existing 34 chapters have been expanded to cover the 18 years since the ground-breaking original edition, with six new chapters added to include the Broadway theatres that have recently been ...
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Backstage Handbook
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Paul Carter, George Chiang (Illustrator)
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Stage crafts
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Chris Hoggett
This comprehensive reference guide is a revised edition of Chris Hoggett's classic handbook on putting together a production. Packed with practical information and suggestions, there are hundreds of drawings explaining aspects of staging, from building the set to making props and lighting. This new edition also includes new material on make-up and ...
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Dramatists Sourcebook: Complete Opportunities for Playwrights, Translators, Composers, Lyricists and Librettists
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Theatre Communications Group (Creator)
"The deities of the theatre are the playwrights. These gods have their own bible-the "Dramatists Sourcebook.""-"Back Stage" "The "Sourcebook" is a treasure trove of sound advice and practical information for the working writer. It provides a road map for beginning writers and is an essential reference for those well traveled."-Donald Margulies, ...
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Show Starts on the Sidewalk: An Architectural History of the Movie Theatre, Starring S....
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Maggie Valentine
Maggie Valentine examines movie theatres--from the 1890s to the multiplex cinemas of today--as products and symbols of their time. She shows how the prototypical theatres of S. Charles Lee influenced, and were influenced by, architectural trends and the economic, social, and political forces of the era.
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Joan Liftin: Drive-Ins
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Joan Liftin (Photographer)
It's a summer night on the plains, a night for dreamers and lovers, a night for drive-in movies. In Chickasa, Oklahoma, and Turkey, Texas, Main Street is dark and shuttered. Out on the prairie there flickers the first reel of the movie. This is the boundless nostalgia of the drive-in, of the serene confidence of the United States in the 50s, when ...
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Family Acts
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Louise Shaffer
Louise Shaffer follows her beloved novels The Three Miss Margarets and The Ladies of Garrison Gardens with an unforgettable tale of poignancy, wit, and high drama. Katie Harder and Randa Jennings live on opposite coasts, have never met, and have almost nothing in common-except that they're both named after Shakespearean characters. Everything ...
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