This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...

This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...

Directing plays in schools requires knowledge and talents far different than directing for community or professional theatre. In ten comprehensive ...

So fresh and welcoming! What a different kind of guide this book is! Learn everything you need to know about play production for children from a Di...

The best scenes from leading plays by the most famous contemporary playwrights. An exceptional collection that challenges actors of all ages and ex...

A collection of many of the world's best scenes and monologs where each chapter includes discussion on playing the role, playing the style, and pla...

The most fascinating characters from world literature step from the printed page into living portrayals for the stage or classroom. Key moments fro...

An anthology of selected plays for young audiences. Many consider Max Bush to be the fountain-head of the renaissance in playwriting for young audi...

This collection of seventeen articles offers an investigation of some of the most important voices from Austria's theatre world between 1945 and 20...

Intense. Poignant. Moving. Powerful. The twenty short plays in this collection cover a broad spectrum of dramatic situations, including revenge, ab...

Getting a new show up and running? Planning a revival? Taking over a long-running show? Going on the road? On Broadway, off Broadway, in regional r...

This is an outstandingly useful edition of Prometheus Bound . The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the introduction to this difficult...

Whether you are a professional, volunteer or student prop master for a play production, this book reviews what a demanding theatre tech position th...

Edmonton's Loud & Queer Cabaret has been blazing trails and shining a light on Queer arts and culture for twenty years. The showcase has debute...

Scene Design: Rendering and Media is intended to help students or practitioners improve their skills at making finished renderings of scene designs...

From the best professionally produced American plays.

Forty-eight true-to-life scenes for guys, girls and mixed casts of 2 to 4 actors. Written as teens speak with the drama and emotions of adolescence...

16 scenes for two to six (or more) players 5 to 10 minutes in length Student actors will love playing a wide variety of characters: Comical monster...

Free-standing scenery creates its own theatre -- compact, economical and flexible. This book tells how to construct it and includes over 175 drawings.

Comedy sketches for stage, TV or film featuring fifty spoofs of sacred icons of everyday life. A must resource for every theatre repertory group. T...

The author draws upon his 50 years experience in the business of designing, constructing and application of portable stage sets.

Provides students with enough theory and information to learn beginning speech, but emphasises practical exercises and activities.

Over 300 improvisation and theatre games to develop creative abilities and acting skills. Improvisational theatre involves students immediately wit...

A superb resource for speech contests, acting exercises, auditions, or audience entertainment. In a stage review, these short monologues can be ind...

In Stage Directing: A Director's Itinerary , the student of theatrical directing will find a step-by-step guide to directing a production, from cho...

This leading authority in small theatre stagecraft shows and tells how professional-quality lighting can be achieved within the limitations of scho...

Twenty chapters detailing all of the fundamentals -- everything the aspiring stage technician needs to know to get started in backstage work! All s...

Nineteen chapters detailing all the fundamentals of backstage work -- all the tools and the language which apply to any theatre operation. The book...

This book invites the interaction of the whole class in the process of creating mystery plays.

"In the wake of the fear that gripped Europe after the fall of Constantinople (1453), the English dramatists joined most continental artists (liter...

Everyone in theatre knows his name but only a few know Stanislavsky's last work. He died before writing any of his final discoveries for print. Onl...

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters ...

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters ...

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...

A thought-provoking new collection of monologues by best-selling author Peg Kehret! Each monologue creates a moment of recognition that makes both ...

The Art of Dramaturgy is a transformative approach to dramaturgical thinking and collaboration. Each chapter includes ways to approach so-called ol...

Drawn from Sharon Marie Carnicke's volume of Chekhov, Four Plays and Three Jokes (Hackett), this edition of The Cherry Orchard features Carnicke's ...

Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers ; Euripides: Electra ; Sophocles: Electra

Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers ; Euripides: Electra ; Sophocles: Electra

[Beaumarchais'] fame rests on Le Barbier de Seville (1775) and Le Mariage de Figaro (1784), the only French plays which his stage-struck century be...

[Beaumarchais'] fame rests on Le Barbier de Seville (1775) and Le Mariage de Figaro (1784), the only French plays which his stage-struck century be...

This edition answers the needs of both beginning and advanced students: It features the text of Marlowe's play with modern spelling and punctuation...