Performing Arts

Gary Cooper was the foremost American screen hero—a major film actor for over thirty years, beginning with the silents. His stardom eclipsed even such su...

Days of Our Lives A Celebration in Photos Days of our Lives 45 years a celebration in photos is an unprecedented photographic journey behind the scenes o...

From acclaimed author Scott Eyman comes the fascinating story of how the transition from silent films to ‘talkies’ transformed Hollywood.It was the end ...

Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and ...

How did the business of movies grow? Who were the people who made it grow? What innovative twists did mobsters Al Capone and Willie Bioff add? Hollywood Eas...

Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American memoirs, a ...

Corpus Delecti is an unprecedented event in the history of Latino performance art. Assembled and edited by one of the foremost practitioners and theorists ...

A beautifully illustrated look at the art, design and making of DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming movie Boss Baby, a family film about a young boy and his f...

this Magnificent Survey Of The Most Popular Period In Music History Is An Extended Essay Embracing Music, Aesthetics, Social History, And Politics, By One...

A practical book which describes how prop makers can create interesting and unusual stage props out of a variety of materials, such as papier mache, plaster...

Did you know it rains diamonds on the planet Uranus? Did you know mosquitoes don’t just bite you and suck your blood, they urinate on you before flying of...

The English Actor Describes His Public And Private Life From His Childhood Through His Sixty-year Career. Part 1: -- How It Began -- Cradle To Choirboy -- R...

Not Every Piece Of Music Is Called A 'work'. These Essays Examine A Broad Swathe Of Western Music And Show How To Call A Piece Of Music A Work Is To Refer N...

130 tips on how to tell a story, how to translate the page to the stage (or screen), and how talk to actors. Endorsed by a veritable who s who of film and ...

Sukeroku: Flower Of Edo.--saint Narukami And The God Fudō.--chronicle Of The Battle Of Ichinotani.--love Letter From The Licensed Quarter.--the Scarlet Pri...

Truth is stranger than legend . . . and your journey into both begins here. World adventurer and international monster hunter Josh Gates has careened throug...

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all ti...

Since the first screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001, New Zealand has become the embodiment of "Middle-earth" to millions...

The Twilight Zone has captivated, teased and haunted the imaginations of countless millions of viewers from its 1959 debut through its 156 subsequent episo...

Celebrates every move the Pink Panther has ever made over the past forty years, from the original Pink Panther movie starring Peter Sellers and the long-run...

Part of the Encore Film Book Classics series, this is a reprint of the original text to Hollywood Bad Boys by James Robert Parish. Which hunky Baldwin broth...

Follows the legendary John Ford through a career that spanned more than five decades, drawing on dozens of personal interviews, material from Ford's estate,...

The complete memoirs of Neil Simon, the greatest—and most successful—American playwright of all time, the author of such iconic works as Lost in Yonkers...

Tricks of the Mind [Paperback]Categories: Humor & Entertainment Performing ArtsMagic & Illusion

Gain access to a personal collection of 101 highly effective drama games and activities suitable for children or adults. Sections include improvisation, mim...

Eat Like One Of The Crawley Family! Host An Elegant Afternoon Tea, Or Treat Guests To Lavish Six-course Dinners. With This Collection Inspired By The Televi...

What can Dory remember? Who are her parents? In Finding Dory, Pixar Animation Studios sets out to answer these questions, to the delight of Finding Nemo fan...

The all-in-one companion to the hit TV show includes all 17 seasons of extensively tested recipes, ratings, and discoveries! Delve inside to find more than ...

Great exhibition catalog featuring festival art from the Caribbean. 161 mostly color illustrations / photographs of art works and costumes - masks, African ...

About the Author\Hannah Strong is the associate editor at Little White Lies magazine. Her work has appeared in Vulture, GQ, the Guardian, and Dazed & Co...

Lost in Space was the first prime time weekly television series to take viewers into outer space’s strange new alien worlds – something the networks bel...

Lost in Space was the prime time weekly series to take viewers into outer space’s strange new alien worlds – something the networks believed impossible ...

This study provides a detailed account of the 1960s film L'avventura. The book argues that in order to appreciate the film's greatness, it is necessary to...

In The Basement Of A Small Evangelical Church In Southeastern Idaho, A Group Of Young Missionaries Is Preparing To Go To The Middle East. One Of Them - A Yo...

Following On From The Widely Acclaimed The Actor And The Text, Cicely Berry Draws On Her Group Work To Emphasise How Actors And Directors Can Use The Rehear...

Captain America: the First Avenger was Marvel Studios' breakout smash hit fi lm of 2011. Now, relive all the shield-slinging excitement with the film's offi...

In this irresistibly funny follow-up to the breakout bestseller Darth Vader and Son, Vader—Sith Lord and leader of the Galactic Empire—now faces the tri...

Fifty years (and five billion dollars in ticket sales) ago, the dashing Scottish actor Sean Connery declared suavely that he was "Bond, James Bond." Thus be...

Steve Mcqueen Was The World's Highest Grossing Movie Star Of His Day And Yet His Acting Technique Has Remained A Mystery. Steve Mcqueen: The Actor And His C...

During The 1950's Troy Maxson Struggles Against Racism And Tries To Preserve His Feelings Of Pride In Himself.Categories: Humor & EntertainmentPerformin...

(Applause Books). Here is the original story of a true original, the celebrated and internationally renowned director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur La...

Here Is The Fascinating Career Of Joe Dallesandro, A Tough Kid From The Streets Of New York Who Became A Counterculture Emblem Of Male Beauty And Ambiguous ...

Long Before Anyone Had Heard Of Alien Cookbooks, Gremlins On The Wings Of Airplanes, Or Places Where Pig-faced People Are Considered Beautiful, Rod Serling ...

”To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature.” When Joe Orton (1933–1967) wrote those words...

Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897--1936) was among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckl...

Life sometimes imitates art. An accomplished actor in film, theater, television, and Old Time Radio, Grant Williams, best-known for The Incredible Shrinki...

Glenn Ford-star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3:10 to Yuma, and The Rounders-had rugged good looks, a long and succe...

first Time In Paperback: The Landmark Biography Of One Of Hollywood's Last Bigger-than-life Stars library Journal buford, A National Public Radio Comment...