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While The Winter's Tale's regarded as a play of two halves (set in Sicilia and Bohemia), former Royal Shakespeare Company director Greg Doran's poignant and absorbing Walking Shadow is a book of two halves.
Shakespeare veteran Dame Harriet Walter talks about the Bard in a reverent tone, but she doesn’t let him off the hook.
Even 400 pages or more cannot contain whole life, nor the personality
“This book is about portraying a safe and dramatically effective staged fight using rapier and dagger,” so begins Roger Bartlett’s latest volume.
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If there is one message that those who were in attendance at More Than One Story LIVE on 9 November absorbed through their skin, it is that “The arts don’t belong to a few, they belong to everyone.
Branded as “366 Daily Inspirations for Writers & Artists,” this compendium of prompts contains an abundance of inspiration.
Drama Games for Clowning and Physical Comedy, written by Joe Dieffenbacher, is one of a series, Drama Games, which, as one might guess from the title, has a range of different games for one to try in workshops, classes and/or rehearsals rooms, with topics like Shakespeare, young children and even �
This is a toolkit to help creatives in a business which is often hard to navigate, and I feel it is an excellent addition to the material currently available on the subject.
A highly intelligent and slightly arrogant cynic as a main character helms the investigative noir set against a bleak view of the business.
Running the Room isn’t a bible nor a manifesto.
There are plenty of Shakespeare books on the market already, it’s true – but there aren’t many out there quite like this one.
The moment when you're presented with a whole new script can feel a little overwhelming for an actor, but Breaking Down Your Script: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Actor is here to help.
The term “diva” rose to prominence with its relation to an operatic background and popularly revolves around the traits of someone’s character.
Doran’s latest book gives a revelatory and revolutionary breakdown of the canon in a way that works for both the professional and uninitiated.
Identity, Culture, and the Science performance Volume 1, From the Lab to the Streets is an intelligently curated series of interviews, essays, and meditations on theatre and its relationship to science.
James Gavin finds the man, but doesn't quite find his place in this detailed biography
The combination of the music, dancing, acting, and exquisite colors displayed by attire of the company brought the show to life, telling the many different stories of Okinawa.
“So many of our #dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
It's like taking a roller coaster ride through QT's mind!
Playwright Dan O'Brien made a splash in LA theatre back in 2017 when The House In Scarsdale: A Memoir For The Stage received multiple Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Nominations.
Frank Sinatra loved to play along with the TV game show Jeopardy.
It's been over seventy days since I have last stepped inside a theatre and it literally feels like there is a something emotionally and physically missing from me.
Yesterday, Playbill broke the news that the critically acclaimed graphic novel THE PRINCE AND THE DRESSMAKER by Jen Wang will be the next project for husband-wife team Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who previously worked together on the music for Disney's Frozen, Coco, and Frozen 2.
In a world where Cupids have been exposed and are frequently hired to make love matches, Eliza Herman feels extremely unlucky.
