Letters From Backstage
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Letters From Backstage
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Author : Michael Kostroff
language : en
Publisher: Allworth
Release Date : 2005-11-01
Letters From Backstage written by Michael Kostroff and has been published by Allworth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-01 with Performing Arts categories.
• Part backstage tour, part travelogue, part social commentary, all funny and insightful • Adventures in more than 20 US cities, large and small • Anecdotes about celebrities, including Mel Brooks, Susan Stroman, Jason Alexander, and Martin Short Ever wonder what it’s like to be a real working actor? Wonder no more! Michael Kostroff is here to reveal, in hilarious detail, just what it’s like to travel with the road companies of The Producers and Les Miserables. His firsthand account of the exciting, funny, and sometimes bizarre highlights of his journey includes working at a temp job when his agent calls to say, “You got the part!”; singing on a revolving stage while lugging a dead body; seeing ghosts in haunted theaters; and much more. Along the way, anecdotes about nailing an audition, keeping a performance fresh, and getting along with fellow cast members give useful tips for working actors. Anyone who wants to know what a life in the theater is really like needs this intimate and unforgettable narrative. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
Letters From Backstage
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Author : Michael Kostroff
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-01-31
Letters From Backstage written by Michael Kostroff and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with Performing Arts categories.
Ever wonder what it’s like to be a real working actor? Wonder no more! Michael Kostroff is here to reveal, in hilarious detail, just what it’s like to travel with the road companies of The Producers and Les Miserables. His firsthand account of the exciting, funny, and sometimes bizarre highlights of his journey includes working at a temp job when his agent calls to say, “You got the part!”; singing on a revolving stage while lugging a dead body; seeing ghosts in haunted theaters; and much more. Along the way, anecdotes about nailing an audition, keeping a performance fresh, and getting along with fellow cast members give useful tips for working actors. Anyone who wants to know what a life in the theater is really like needs this intimate and unforgettable narrative.
Letters From An Actor
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Author : William Redfield
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-03-05
Letters From An Actor written by William Redfield and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-05 with Performing Arts categories.
The legendary 1964 Broadway run of Hamlet directed by John Gielgud is one of the most famous productions of Shakespeare’s most important play. Audacious for its time in concept and execution, it placed the actors in everyday clothes within an unassuming “rehearsal” set, with the Ghost of Hamlet’s father projected as a shadow against the rear wall and voiced by the director himself. It was also a runaway critical and financial success, breaking the then-record for most performances of a Broadway show. This was in no small part due to the starring role played by Richard Burton, whose romance with Elizabeth Taylor was the object of widespread fascination. Present throughout, and ever attentive to the backstage drama and towering egos on display, was the actor William Redfield, who played Guildenstern. During the three months of the play’s preparation, from rehearsals through out-of-town tryouts to the gala opening night on Broadway, Redfield wrote a series of letters describing the daily happenings and his impressions of them. In 1967, they were in 1967 collected into Letters from an Actor, a brilliant and unusual book that has since become a classic behind-the-scenes account that remains an indispensable contribution to theatrical history and lore. This new edition at last brings Redfield’s classic back into print, as The Motive and the Cue—the Sam Mendes-directed play about the Gielgud production that is based in part on the book—continues its successful run in London’s West End.
Deliberation Behind Closed Doors
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Author : Daniel Naurin
language : en
Publisher: ECPR Press
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Deliberation Behind Closed Doors written by Daniel Naurin and has been published by ECPR Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Political Science categories.
Do transparency and publicity have the power to civilise politics? In deliberative democratic theory this is a common claim. Publicity, it is argued, forces actors to switch from market-style bargaining to a behaviour more appropriate for the political sphere, where the proper way of reaching agreement is by convincing others using public-spirited arguments. Daniel Naurin has conducted the first comprehensive analysis and test of the theory of publicity's civilising effect. The theory is tested on business lobbyists - presumably the most market-oriented actors in politics - acting on different arenas characterised by varying degrees of transparency and publicity. Innovative scenario-interviews with lobbying consultants in Brussels and in Stockholm are compared and contrasted with a unique sample of previously confidential lobbying letters. The results are both disappointing and encouraging to deliberative democratic theorists. While the positive force of publicity seems to be overrated, it is found that even behind closed doors business lobbyists must adapt to the norms of the forum.
Against A Sharp White Background
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Author : Brigitte Fielder
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2019-05-14
Against A Sharp White Background written by Brigitte Fielder and has been published by University of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave narratives to digital databases. While the printed word can seem democratizing, it remains that the infrastructures of print and digital culture can be as limiting as they are enabling. Contributors to this volume explore the relationship between expression and such frameworks, analyzing how different mediums, library catalogs, and search engines shape the production and reception of written and visual culture. Topics include antebellum literature, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement; “post-Black” art, the role of black librarians, and how present-day technologies aid or hinder the discoverability of work by African Americans. Against a Sharp White Background covers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable from the study of texts and their technologies.
Transatlantic Perspectives On Late Modern English
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Author : Marina Dossena
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2015-02-15
Transatlantic Perspectives On Late Modern English written by Marina Dossena and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The volume presents an innovative approach to studies in Late Modern English by giving attention to variation and change in varieties of English on both sides of the Atlantic. As new corpora become available, scholarly interests broaden their horizons to encompass varieties, the history of which has only just begun to be investigated, and which are likely to yield significant findings. The contributors, whose long experience in the field of English historical linguistics ensures in-depth investigations, employ state-of-the-art tools for the analysis of specific phenomena and to set these in the light of a more encompassing framework concerning different text types and sociolinguistic considerations. While usage guides and dictionaries prove remarkable in their contribution to the definition of what is (not) acceptable in specific social circles, the language of ordinary users also takes centre stage in studies of correspondence, journals and travelogues. The volume is expected to appeal to scholars and students interested in the linguistic history of English as seen in contexts on which – until now – relatively little light has been shed.
Letters In Plautus
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Author : Emilia A. Barbiero
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-15
Letters In Plautus written by Emilia A. Barbiero and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with History categories.
The letters in Plautus are potent tools for making and thinking about Plautine comedy inside Plautine comedy. Emilia Barbiero demonstrates that Plautus' embedded letters reify the internal performance and evince its theatricality by means of the epistolary medium's script-like ability to precipitate presence in absence. These missives thus serve as emblems of the dramatic script, and in their onstage composition and recitation they cast a portrait of the plays' textual origins into the plays themselves. But by virtue of their inscription with a premise which is identical to that of the comedies they inhabit, the Plautine letters also reproduce the relationship between the playwright's Greek models and his Latin translations: the mirror effect created by a dramatic text inscribed, read and realized within a dramatic text whose plot it also duplicates generates a mise-en-abyme which ultimately serves to contemplate problems of novelty and literary ownership that beset Plautus' literary endeavor.
Backstage Pass To The Bible New Testament
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Author : Jonathan Brant
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2002-09
Backstage Pass To The Bible New Testament written by Jonathan Brant and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09 with Religion categories.
Passionate love Killing and revenge Tragedy, tyrants, tears Praise, prophecy, peace! Here's your All-Access Pass to backstage buzz, inside info, and a feeling like you're watching the show from the wings instead of way back in the balcony! But...the world's best-selling book is also the world's least understood book. What's the problem anyway? Y'see, the New Testament doesn't present us with much, does it? Only extremes from the Creator of the Universe caring so much about individual sinners that He became human for a time to identify with all our junky baggage... to unbelievable acts of sacrifice and servanthood...to assurances about eternity (ours!) If you think you got it all about the Savior from Jesus Christ Superstar; or that you met the coolest superheroes in comic books; or understood discipleship from checkin' out that painting of the Last Supper---and if checkin' out the New Testament itself still intimidates you---check out Backstage Pass to the Bible---New Testament! Here's an insider's view, thanks to: summaries of the general details of the essentials checklists of the details easy-to-do exercises fun-to-read cartoons way-cool explanations of what Jesus wanted you to know! One of the little secrets about the Apostolic Age, is despite persecution, a large percentage of the world became Christian in that general time. Backstage Pass to the Bible---New Testament will help you catch the fire that ignited the world when it understood Jesus! This little book is the All-Access Pass to the coolest concert you've ever enjoyed: you'll go everywhere, see everyone, know the scoop, be close to the stars! Backstage Pass to the Bible---New Testament will revolutionize your understanding of God! Hey---can knowing how He works in our lives, and wants to work in our lives, ever be bad? You don't have to snake in the stage door...here's a backstage pass, just for you. Rock on!
The Who I Was There
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Author : Richard Houghton
language : en
Publisher: This Day In Music Books
Release Date : 2017-05-19
The Who I Was There written by Richard Houghton and has been published by This Day In Music Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The second in a series by author Richard Houghton, I Was There provides a fan's-eye account of the English rock band The Who. With over 400 fans, friends and colleagues accounts of their memories of seeing, working with and knowing members of one of the greatest live acts ever, this book contains fascinating anecdotes, stories, photographs and memorabilia that have never been published before. From their early years as The High Numbers, playing venues in and around London to the full blown tours with the classic Who line-up of Daltrey, Townshend, Entwistle and Moon promoting their landmark albums such as Tommy, Quadrophenia, Live At Leeds, Who’s Next and beyond.
Sherlock Holmes On The Stage
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Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2008-06-10
Sherlock Holmes On The Stage written by Amnon Kabatchnik and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-10 with Performing Arts categories.
One of the world's most well known fictional characters, Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887. The detective was featured in four novels and 56 short stories written by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Within a decade of his creation Sherlock Holmes made his theatrical debut, first in a couple of obscure productions and soon in the celebrated play adapted by and starring William Gillette. Through the 20th century and beyond, the fictional detective featured in dozens of plays, not to mention radio programs, films, and television shows. In Sherlock Holmes on Stage, Amnon Kabatchnik cites the many theatrical appearances of the great detective since his debut in a one-act musical satire in November 1893. Divided into three sections, this book focuses on plays written or cowritten by Conan Doyle, one-act productions, and plays written by other authors—either adaptations of the novels and stories or original works. Within these sections, each entry is arranged in chronological order and provides a plot synopsis, production details, and other unique features. Some entries identify principal actors and provide biographical sketches of the playwrights, as well as those actors who made a lasting impression as the fictional sleuth. The book also includes several appendixes that focus on special productions, plays that feature variations of the Holmes character, and a list of acting editions.