Famous color woodcut printmaker Gustave Baumann was a superb wood-carver who was captivated by puppet theater. In the 1930s Baumann carved a collec...

Far more than simply an overview of improv comedy, this book helps actors, writers and comedians learn the basics as taught in all the major comedy...

Renowned improvisation instructor and award-winning director Mick Napier has been at the heart of the professional improvisation community for over...

Book & DVD. These international mime artists, trained in Paris by Marcel Marceau, have taught mime workshops around the world. This video and w...

In the mid-1800s, inveterate showman/salesman P. T. Barnum introduced a real-life Tom Thumb and spawned a huge movement of midget exhibits. Little ...

Covers props, staging, make-up, rehearsal, performance-tested mime routines and sketches for two or more mimes.

Three-time Emmy Award-winner Gene Perret's Comedy Writing Step by Step has been the manual for humour writers for 25 years. In this new book, his f...

24 one-act monologues; dialogues; comedy sketches; light drama and serious drama. Prop and costume suggestions, provide the mood and setting.

Paris Nights: My Year at the Moulin Rouge opens with a bored twenty-seven-year old Cliff Simon staring out at the ocean from his beachfront house, ...

Step down a little closer; you don't want to miss a thing. Join fifty-year sideshow veteran, Rick West, on a strange and wonderful trip through beh...

Australians have always loved a good show, as this new collection of essays demonstrates. The significance of exhibitions goes beyond mere entertai...

Comic actors have made a particularly strong contribution to cultural life in Australia over the past sixty years. They have brought a range of mem...

Presenting more than 100 traditional, colorful puppets and masks used in Malian puppet theater, this book documents a collection that has been wide...

Beginning comedy writers and performers may think funny can't be taught, but legendary comedy writer Gene Perret, winner of three Emmy Awards, tell...

Finally -- a collection of duologues from the best-selling author of Winning Monologs for Young Actors and her granddaughter. These humorous and th...

A complete improvisation curriculum in twenty-four class-length units. This comprehensive resource who shows the who, what, when, why and how of co...

'The Women's Circus' is a community-based theatrical group structured around feminist principles. One hundred women are actively engaged in trainin...