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What the FACH?!  The Definitive Guide for Opera Singers Auditioning & Working in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (2nd Edition)
What the FACH?! The Definitive Guide for Opera Singers Auditioning & Working in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (2nd Edition)
by Philip Shepard
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If you are looking to expand your opera career to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland... If you want to work as a full-time singer (Fest) in one or more opera houses... If you are curious about what life is like as a singer in a German-speaking Fest... (read more)

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Sanford Meisner on Acting
Sanford Meisner on Acting
by Sanford Meisner
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This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American... (read more)

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Harpo Speaks! (04 Edition)
Harpo Speaks! (04 Edition)
by Harpo Marx
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The Marx Brother who never spoke--Harpo Marx--expounds upon his life and times in Hollywood and on the vaudeville stage in this funny, affectionate, and poignant autobiography as told to journalist Rowland Barber.... (read more)

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Respect for Acting
Respect for Acting
by Uta Hagen
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"Uta Hagen wanted us never to settle, period, to keep on endlessly exploring, digging deeper, and aiming higher in our scenes, in our plays, in our careers. Respect for Acting is not a long book, and with any luck, it will take you the rest of your life... (read more)

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Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Moviemaking
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Moviemaking
by Michael Caine
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A master actor who's appeared in an enormous number of films, starring with everyone from Nicholson to Kermit the Frog, Michael Caine is uniquely qualified to provide his view of making movies. This new revised and expanded edition features great photos... (read more)

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Audition: Everything an Actor Needs To Know To Get the Part
Audition: Everything an Actor Needs To Know To Get the Part
by Michael Shurtleff
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Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows like Chicago and Becket and for films like The Graduate and Jesus Christ Superstar. His legendary course on auditioning has launched hundreds of successful careers. Now in this book he tells... (read more)

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An Acrobat of the Heart: A Physical Approach to Acting Inspired by the Work of Jerzy Grotowski
An Acrobat of the Heart: A Physical Approach to Acting Inspired by the Work of Jerzy Grotowski
by Stephen Wangh
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A Vintage Original "The actor will do, in public, what is considered impossible." When the renowned Polish director Jerzy Grotowski began his 1967 American workshop with these words, his students were stunned. But within four weeks they... (read more)

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The Dramatic Imagination
The Dramatic Imagination
by Robert Edmond Jones
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"The Dramatic Imagination" is one of the few enduring works written about set design. Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of... (read more)

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An Actor Prepares
An Actor Prepares
by Consta Stanislavski
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Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.... (read more)

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Acting: The First Six Lessons: Documents from the American Laboratory Theatre
Acting: The First Six Lessons: Documents from the American Laboratory Theatre
by Richard Boleslavsky
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Acting: The First Six Lessons was first published in 1933 and remains a key text for anyone studying acting today. These dramatic dialogues between teacher and idealistic student explore the field of acting according to one of the original teachers of... (read more)

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What the Fach?! the Definitive Guide for Opera Singers Auditioning & Working in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (2Nd Edition)
What the Fach?! the Definitive Guide for Opera Singers Auditioning & Working in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (2Nd Edition)
by Philip Shepard
Publisher Comments
If you are looking to expand your opera career to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland... If you want to work as a full-time singer (Fest) in one or more opera houses... If you are curious about what life is like as a singer in a German-speaking Fest... (read more)

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Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
by Michael Shurleff
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The casting director for Chicago, Pippin, Becket, Gypsy, The Graduate, the Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar tells you how you can find your dream! Absolutely everything an actor needs to know to get the part is here: What to do that moment... (read more)

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The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer
The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer
by Patsy Rodenburg
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In The Actor Speaks, Patsy Rodenburg takes actors and actresses, both professional and beginners, through a complete voice workshop. She touches on every aspect of performance work that involves the voice and sorts through the kinds of vexing problems... (read more)

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Moving Body : Teaching Creative Theatre (00 Edition)
Moving Body : Teaching Creative Theatre (00 Edition)
by Jacques Lecoq
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In The Moving Body, translated into English for the first time, Lecoq shares his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement, and gesture. Neutral mask, character masks and counter-masks, bouffons, acrobatics, commedia, clowns: all... (read more)

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On the Technique of Acting (91 Edition)
On the Technique of Acting (91 Edition)
by Michael Chekhov Chekhov
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The most authoritive, authentic text of a classic guide to acting In the four decades since its first publication, Michael Chekhov's To the Actor has become a standard text for students of the theater. But To the Actor is a shortened, heavily modified... (read more)

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The Art of Film Acting: A Guide for Actors and Directors
The Art of Film Acting: A Guide for Actors and Directors
by Jeremiah Comey
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This guide for actors and directors develops a valid method for training performers to act from their core--whether they are cold reading, auditioning, or performing for film or television. This book teaches actors how to achieve and respond to... (read more)

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Out on a Limb
Out on a Limb
by Shirley MacLaine
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Her most controversial book is one you will never forget.An outspoken thinker, a celebrated actress, a truly independent woman, Shirley MacLaine goes beyond her previous two bestsellers to take us on an intimate yet powerful journey into her personal... (read more)

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Acting (American Theatre Wing) (Working in the Theatre Seminars)
Acting (American Theatre Wing) (Working in the Theatre Seminars)
by Robert Emmet Long
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Published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Tony Awards(R), the launch of the new Working in the Theatre series from The American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards(R), promises to be one of the most exciting theatrical-publishing events... (read more)

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Respect for Acting
Respect for Acting
by Uta Hagen
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"I have attempted to break down all the areas in which you can work and search for realities in yourself which serve the character and the play…. Put your instincts and sense of truth, your understanding of human realities to use while probing and... (read more)

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The Art of Clowning: More Paths to Your Inner Clown
The Art of Clowning: More Paths to Your Inner Clown
by Eli Simon
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The Art of Clowning is the first book on clowning technique and offers a step-by-step process for actors and other theatrical enthusiasts to discover their "inner clown." This fun and accessible guide expands on theories and exercises to help students... (read more)

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