Over 300 interviews with extraordinary theater artists. For more than a decade, BACKSTAGE columnist Evalyn Hansen, M.A., interviewed prominent actors, directors, designers, writers, musicians, and filmmakers personifying Ashland, Oregon’s flourishing theater scene. What makes a great actor or director? What makes a great play? Accompany Evalyn Hansen as she visits hundreds of celebrated theater artists. Through casual conversations, they reveal...

A documentary about adults who share their most embarrassing, private childhood writings in front of total strangers. The film blends performance footage of these public confessions with an examination of the rise of Mortified stage shows, and chronicles how the simple act of exposing one's private past can inspire an entire nation to "share the shame." Transporting viewers back to a time of awkward firsts-- first love, first rejection, first total...

In this engrossing study, Elinor Fuchs explores the multiple worlds of theater after modernism. While The Death of Character engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory, Elinor Fuchs always speaks as an active theater critic. Nine of her Village Voice and American Theatre essays conclude the volume. They give an immediate, vivid account of contemporary theater and theatrical culture written from the front of rapid cultural change.

El volumen I de 'El ciclo ruso' reúne dos obras de Matei Visniec ambientadas en la Rusia estalinista. En la primera de ellas, 'La historia del comunismo contada a enfermos mentales', Yury Petrovsky, un escritor oficialista, acude a un sanatorio para elaborar un relato sobre las bondades del régimen que puedan comprender los enfermos mentales. La segunda, 'Ricardo III no tendrá lugar o Escenas de la vida de Meyerhold', nos muestra al conocido director...

Dracula stalks the stage in this two-act thriller freely adapted from the Bram Stoker novel. Perfect for any company or community looking for a Halloween play requiring a large ensemble cast. (8 Male, 6 female, and 2 children - casting can be flexible) This version of the classic vampre tale focuses on Mina Murray, a suffragette and proto-feminist fighting social mores and facing an encroaching force for evil.Suspenseful, smart, and surprising.Includes...

In a high-end hotel room, rising football stars Jason and Ade are living the dream. Goals, girls and glory. Tomorrow they make their first-team debut. But the game starts before you've even walked out the tunnel. Twelve years. Three hotel rooms. One last gamble. An agile new story about sex, fame and how much you're willing to lose in order to win, The Pass premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 2014.

La autora explora un enfoque diferente de actuación metódica con énfasis en lo mítico; ofrece una formación actoral sustentada en sus experiencias profesionales como actriz, dramaturga, directora de cine y docente. En el libro presenta indicaciones y formas de interpretar con objeto de que los actores pongan en práctica sus fuentes creativas más profundas.

The production of a play is frought with drama and romance in and of itself, from its writing and casting to rehearsals and staging. Onstage, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events while each attendee and their family members deal with their own interpersonal issues.

Publisher Annotation: In this exhilaratingly original novel, a fantastical theatre and its troupe perform a young girl's dreams, until nightmares take over. Will one devoted stagehand be able to bring joy back into the spotlight?

Memoria de apariencias es una antología de los comentarios de Calderón de la Barca a las escenografías y los artilugios técnicos utilizados en las puestas en escena de sus Autos sacramentales. Aquí se describen las maquinarias, los colores y los diseños y hasta el modo en que los actores deben comportarse en escena. Se trata de una apología del barroco a través de la técnica y de la minuciosidad.