Performing Arts Books


MySpeechLab with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Mastering Public Speaking (6th Edition)MySpeechLab with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Mastering Public Speaking (6th Edition)
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MySpeechLab is an interactive online solution for Speech courses.  This site gives you...
Essentials of Human Communication, Books a la Carte Edition (7th Edition)Essentials of Human Communication, Books a la Carte Edition (7th Edition)
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This edition features the exact same content as the traditional text in a convenient,...
Enjoyment of Theatre, The (8th Edition)Enjoyment of Theatre, The (8th Edition)
Best Price: $49.90
Updated in a new 8th edition, this book offers a balance of history and performance that brings...
Human Communication in SocietyHuman Communication in Society
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For today's busy student, we've created a new line of highly portable books at...
MyCommunicationKit Student Access Code Card for Stage MakeupMyCommunicationKit Student Access Code Card for Stage Makeup
Best Price: $22.60


MySpeechLab Pegasus -- Standalone Access Card -- for Public Speaking Handbook  (3rd Edition)MySpeechLab Pegasus -- Standalone Access Card -- for Public Speaking Handbook (3rd Edition)
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MyCommunicationLab with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Communication: The HandbookMyCommunicationLab with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Communication: The Handbook
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This access code card gives you access to all of MyCommunicationLab?s grade-boosting...
Communication: Principles for a Lifetime, Books a la Carte Plus MyCommunicationLab Pegasus (4th Edition)Communication: Principles for a Lifetime, Books a la Carte Plus MyCommunicationLab Pegasus (4th Edition)
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Communication: Making Connections, Books a la Carte Plus MyCommunicationLab (8th Edition)Communication: Making Connections, Books a la Carte Plus MyCommunicationLab (8th Edition)
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Updated in a new 8th edition, Communication: Making Communications is a popular, comprehensive...
Human Communication: The Basic Course, Books a la Carte Plus MyCommunicationLab (12th Edition)Human Communication: The Basic Course, Books a la Carte Plus MyCommunicationLab (12th Edition)
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Books à la Carte are unbound, three-hole-punch versions of the textbook. This lower cost...


Writing for the Stage: A Practical Playwriting GuideWriting for the Stage: A Practical Playwriting Guide
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I almost bought this book about a year ago and this year it was set as a text in my university...
Actor at Work, The (9th Edition)Actor at Work, The (9th Edition)
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For more than thirty years, the highly acclaimed The Actor at Work has offered readers a...
Actor at Work, The (10th Edition)Actor at Work, The (10th Edition)
Best Price: $76.99
This product looked practically brand new and was shipped very quickly! I am learning a lot from...
Interpersonal Communication Book, The, Books a la Carte Plus MyCommunicationLab CourseCompass (11th Edition)Interpersonal Communication Book, The, Books a la Carte Plus MyCommunicationLab CourseCompass (11th Edition)
Best Price: $76.00
Strategic Communication in Business and the Professions (5th Edition)Strategic Communication in Business and the Professions (5th Edition)
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I found this book very helpful. Even though the chapters were very long, they were very...

Speech Preparation Workbook (3rd Edition)Speech Preparation Workbook (3rd Edition)
Best Price: $24.99
This workbook provides a variety of forms to help students prepare their self-introductory...
Essentials of Human Communication Value Package (includes Study  for Introduction to Speech Communication) (6th Edition)Essentials of Human Communication Value Package (includes Study for Introduction to Speech Communication) (6th Edition)
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MyCommunicationLab with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Human Communication in SocietyMyCommunicationLab with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Human Communication in Society
Best Price: $82.67
MyCommunicationLab is an interactive online solution for Communication courses.  This site...
Persuasion, Social Influence, and Compliance Gaining (4th Edition)Persuasion, Social Influence, and Compliance Gaining (4th Edition)
Best Price: $72.00
Grounded in contemporary scholarship, Persuasion: Social Influence, and Compliance Gaining not...
Chicago's Famous BuildingsChicago's Famous Buildings
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This is essentially a small pocket-sized tourist's guide to those buildings generally...

Shakespeare's Great Stage of FoolsShakespeare's Great Stage of Fools
Best Price: $71.33
This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed study of Shakespeare?s fascination with clowns,...
Theatre and Human RightsTheatre and Human Rights
Best Price: $5.01
Act of violence or show of strength? In a world of spectacular suffering and power plays ? large...
Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative CartographiesMapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies
Best Price: $71.22
Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and...
Working Together in Theatre: Collaboration and LeadershipWorking Together in Theatre: Collaboration and Leadership
Best Price: $24.07
Robert Cohen draws on fifty years of acting, directing and teaching experience in order to...
An Actor's Craft: The Art and Technique of ActingAn Actor's Craft: The Art and Technique of Acting
Best Price: $72.28
Speaking passionately about the art of acting, David Krasner illuminates the...

Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (Performance Interventions)Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (Performance Interventions)
Best Price: $24.81
Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary...
Feminism and TheatreFeminism and Theatre
Best Price: $15.49
This classic studyis both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between...
National Theatres in a Changing Europe (Studies in International Performance)National Theatres in a Changing Europe (Studies in International Performance)
Best Price: $71.22
This book examines the various ways in which national theatres have formed and evolved over...
Turn-Of-The-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, ZurichTurn-Of-The-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich
Best Price: $85.00
Traces the history of the European cabaret, discusses the types of entertainment that developed...
Chicago's Famous BuildingsChicago's Famous Buildings
Best Price: $2.49
This is essentially a small pocket-sized tourist's guide to those buildings generally...

Shakespeare's Great Stage of FoolsShakespeare's Great Stage of Fools
Best Price: $71.33
This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed study of Shakespeare?s fascination with clowns,...
Theatre and Human RightsTheatre and Human Rights
Best Price: $5.01
Act of violence or show of strength? In a world of spectacular suffering and power plays ? large...
Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative CartographiesMapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies
Best Price: $71.22
Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and...
Working Together in Theatre: Collaboration and LeadershipWorking Together in Theatre: Collaboration and Leadership
Best Price: $24.07
Robert Cohen draws on fifty years of acting, directing and teaching experience in order to...
An Actor's Craft: The Art and Technique of ActingAn Actor's Craft: The Art and Technique of Acting
Best Price: $72.28
Speaking passionately about the art of acting, David Krasner illuminates the...

Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (Performance Interventions)Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (Performance Interventions)
Best Price: $24.81
Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary...
Feminism and TheatreFeminism and Theatre
Best Price: $15.49
This classic studyis both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between...
National Theatres in a Changing Europe (Studies in International Performance)National Theatres in a Changing Europe (Studies in International Performance)
Best Price: $71.22
This book examines the various ways in which national theatres have formed and evolved over...
Turn-Of-The-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, ZurichTurn-Of-The-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich
Best Price: $85.00
Traces the history of the European cabaret, discusses the types of entertainment that developed...
Screenplay: Writing the PictureScreenplay: Writing the Picture
Best Price: $21.00
Robin U. Russin's and William Missouri Down's SCREENPLAY: WRITING THE PICTURE is the...

Le Cid and The LiarLe Cid and The Liar
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Richard Wilbur?s translations of the great French dramas have been a boon to acting troupes,...
The Lotte Berk Method Formerly Called Awake! Aware! Alive! Exercises for a Vital BodyThe Lotte Berk Method Formerly Called Awake! Aware! Alive! Exercises for a Vital Body
The Lotte Berk Method, as it has been developed and promoted by Lydia Bach, is an exciting...
British Theatre Since 1955: A Reassessment (Opus Books)British Theatre Since 1955: A Reassessment (Opus Books)Church OrganistChurch OrganistHollywood Directors 1914-40Hollywood Directors 1914-40
Best Price: $71.19
These essays were written by leading directors and film-makers at the very time that they were...

Radio ComedyRadio Comedy
Best Price: $14.00
Radio Comedy is a fascinating journey into the recent past of American popular culture, an...
The Concise Oxford Companion to American TheatreThe Concise Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Best Price: $18.86
When Gerald Bordman's Oxford Companion to American Theatre appeared in 1984, the...
The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical SurveyThe Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey
Best Price: $44.00
The Broadway musical, one of America's most distinctive contributions to Western music, has...
Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of VentriloquismDumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism
Best Price: $59.61
I enjoyed this text, recommended by a colleague, for other reasons, but thought of it...
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance: Two volumesThe Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance: Two volumes
Best Price: $674.79
From ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in stage design, from the trance-dances of...

The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and MusicThe Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music
Best Price: $135.00
The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music studies the complex impact of movements,...
Stagecraft: A Handbook for Organization, Construction, and ManagementStagecraft: A Handbook for Organization, Construction, and Management
Best Price: $94.18
Planning, shop management, tools, set pieces, painting, strike--they're all here. Welker...
Stage Management, 5th EditionStage Management, 5th Edition
I read this book and it changed the way I looked at SMs, it changed the way my theatre operated....
Actor in You, The: Sixteen Simple Steps to Understanding the Art of ActingActor in You, The: Sixteen Simple Steps to Understanding the Art of Acting
Best Price: $6.99
An introduction to the fundamentals of beginning acting, The Actor in You enhances students'...
Using Stories and Humor: Grab Your Audience (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series)Using Stories and Humor: Grab Your Audience (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series)
Best Price: $4.34
Author's comments: Bore no more! A step-by-step guide for finding, developing and sharing...

Your Voice and Articulation (4th Edition)Your Voice and Articulation (4th Edition)
Best Price: $96.88
I found this book extremely well written and easy to understand makes no difference if you are...
Speech Science: An Integrated Approach to Theory and Clinical PracticeSpeech Science: An Integrated Approach to Theory and Clinical Practice
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Speech Science provides an integration of scientific material on the acoustics and physiology of...
The Articulate Voice: An Introduction to Voice and Diction (3rd Edition)The Articulate Voice: An Introduction to Voice and Diction (3rd Edition)
Best Price: $85.90
This book has helped increase my vocabulary and improve my diction greatly, I heartily recommend.
The Enjoyment of the Theatre (5th Edition)The Enjoyment of the Theatre (5th Edition)
Best Price: $70.86
The story of the textbook is to give students an appreciation of theatre, to delineate theatre...
Interpersonal EssentialsInterpersonal Essentials
Best Price: $53.39
I needed this for a class at college. The book itself is an essential tool for communication. It...

Auditory Brain Stem Evoked Potentials: Laboratory Exercises and Clinical ManualAuditory Brain Stem Evoked Potentials: Laboratory Exercises and Clinical Manual
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This laboratory exercise manual provides the newcomer with the basic information needed for...
Thinking Through Communication: An Introduction to the Study of Human Communication (3rd Edition)Thinking Through Communication: An Introduction to the Study of Human Communication (3rd Edition)
Best Price: $28.97
I found this book to be hypocritical and vacuous. Students will get little out of it that they...
Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audience, Content, and ProducersRace/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audience, Content, and Producers
Best Price: $69.52
This book was sent to me in a very timely manner and came by the promised date.
Introduction to Video Production: Studio, Field, and BeyondIntroduction to Video Production: Studio, Field, and Beyond
Best Price: $82.27
This book is very detailed and has a lot of pictures and examples to help! I highly recommend it...
Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices (7th Edition)Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices (7th Edition)
Best Price: $5.80
This was a used book. Our instructor didn't know that the 8th edition was out, so didn't...

Page and Stage: An Approach to Script AnalysisPage and Stage: An Approach to Script Analysis
Best Price: $31.00
Page to Stage narrows the gulf between printed page and performance to make script analysis for...
Handbook of Instructional Communication: Rhetorical and Relational PerspectivesHandbook of Instructional Communication: Rhetorical and Relational Perspectives
Best Price: $84.80
The worldwide method of teaching used these days consists of communication in the form of a...
Struggles and Triumphs; Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. BarnumStruggles and Triumphs; Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum
Best Price: $25.54
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...
The History of the National TheatreThe History of the National TheatreThe Story Of Miss SaigonThe Story Of Miss Saigon
This is a very good book, which tells you everything about the making of Miss Saigon, started...

This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and NowThis Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now
Best Price: $12.71
Many readers first encounter Shakespeare?s plays in a book rather than a theater. Yet...
The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of SpectacleThe Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
Best Price: $46.35
Haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it looks like a well-written book with lots of good...
How to Stage Greek Tragedy TodayHow to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
Best Price: $43.31
From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning...
Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny LifePuppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life
Best Price: $16.50
The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a...
Dance, Sex, and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and DesireDance, Sex, and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire
Best Price: $29.15
I chanced upon this book when I was researching the origins of women's dance in the Middle...

Inwardness and Theater in the English RenaissanceInwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance
Best Price: $19.26
I found the book to be in perfect condition. Although the purchase arrived in less than two...
The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan TheatreThe Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre
Best Price: $11.70
Part of a larger project to examine the Elizabethan politics of representation, Louis...
Musical!: A Grand TourMusical!: A Grand Tour
Best Price: $54.99
Denny Martin Flinn obviously has a great interest and love of musicals. I applaud this facet of...
Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular DanceJazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance
Best Price: $84.73
The Story of American Vernacular Dance
Associated Press Reporting HandbookAssociated Press Reporting Handbook
Best Price: $25.00
The "Associated Press Reporting Handbook" is not so much a how-to handbook as...

Understanding MoviesUnderstanding Movies
Appropriate for courses in Introduction to Film, Film and Drama, and Film and Literature. ...
Beginning Acting: The Illusion of Natural BehaviorBeginning Acting: The Illusion of Natural Behavior
Best Price: $15.00
Dance Music Programming SecretsDance Music Programming Secrets
Well this book was an attempt, I'll give it that! However unless you are a labotomized...
Stage Makeup (9th Edition)Stage Makeup (9th Edition)
Best Price: $199.99
There is no doubt that this book covers all the foundation aspects of the make up needs of the...
Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The CherryOrchard (Penguin Classics)Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The CherryOrchard (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $5.48
Dr. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a medical doctor, short story writer and author of great...

1776: A Musical Play (Penguin Plays)1776: A Musical Play (Penguin Plays)
Best Price: $7.34
Every 4th of July I watch the restored laser disc edition of "1776," the musical that...
In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social ThoughtIn Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought
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This is a good nature/nurture dialectic book to read. Degler's book is a historical account...
Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute)Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute)
Best Price: $75.00
I wanted this book to drop some science on me about the recent waves of shows that I cared about...
International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc Vol 3International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc Vol 3African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical ReaderAfrican American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader
Best Price: $29.99
African American Performance and Theater History is an anthology of critical writings that...

Antigone (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)Antigone (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Best Price: $92.13
I read Sophocles Antigone for graduate Humanities class. It is an essential reading to...
A Most Ingenious Paradox: The Art of Gilbert and SullivanA Most Ingenious Paradox: The Art of Gilbert and Sullivan
Best Price: $64.60
In the past, when asked to name the minimal list of books essential to a full understanding and...
Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and BooksNatural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books
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Long recognized as America's most brilliant jazz writer, winner of the prestigious National...
Classical Dance and Theatre in South-East AsiaClassical Dance and Theatre in South-East Asia
This lavishly illustrated book provides an introduction to the rich traditions of Southeast...
Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian LondonTheatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London
Best Price: $267.39
In September of 1809 during the opening night of Macbeth at the newly rebuilt Covent Garden...

Henry Fielding and the London Theatre 1728-1737Henry Fielding and the London Theatre 1728-1737
Fielding's ten years as England's premier dramatist and theatre manager have long been...
    
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