Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice of modern theater. The first two editions of Improvisation for the Theater sold more than 100,000 copies and inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, film. These techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology.-Print ed.

Esta, la más importante e inmortal obra de Shakespeare, llega a las más altas cimas de la poesía y de la tragedia. Toda la pieza es un largo dúo de amor cantado con el fondo conflictivo de dos familias rivales –los Montesco y los Capuleto–, donde se combinan la acción dramática con las riñas a espada, el desarrollo azaroso y vivo, el colorido del lenguaje de nobles y plebeyos, lo mundano y lo popular. La muerte de Romeo y Julieta consigue...

For fans of Book of Ages and American Eve, this illuminating and enthralling biography of 19th-century queer actress Charlotte Cushman portrays her radical lifestyle that riveted New York City and made headlines across America. . . From the very beginning, she was a radical. At age nineteen, Charlotte Cushman, America's beloved actress and the country's first true celebrity, left her life, and countless suitors, behind to make it as a Shakespearean...

The editor of Playbill's At This Theatre and founding editor of the new Playbill Broadway Yearbook offers a collection of 26 essays on theatre by the top professionals in their fields. Includes contributions by two recently departed leading lights: playwright Wendy Wasserstein and songwriter Cy Coleman. Also, featured are Chita Rivera and Edward Albee; costume designer William Ivey Long; set designer Robin Wagner, and director and choreographer Susan...

Mumbai's theatre scene is a dynamic and creative space that has continuously inspired young theatre practitioners from the 1960s to the present day. It is, filled with lessons learned and unlearned, techniques invented and reinvented. It is a space in which experimentation constantly takes place-where, as Shanta Gokhale says in her preface, 'the new' consciously opposes 'the old' and results in the kind of theatre that forces people to reconsider...

BEFORE THE CURTAIN GOES UP is a photographic journey behind the scenes of small-town theatres across the United States.

The Nickie and Ricky Rivers Show is broadcasting their talk show on the road and it's a bumpy ride. This show features D list guests including Vegas Lounge singing team of Shecky Scagnetti and Edie Buffet, new age guru: Celeste Ethereal, home economist; Phoebe St Self and gossip columnist: Polly Pettegolo. Everyone is on the talk show to plug their own talk shows. What starts out to be a yawn fest heats up with a few ego and personality clashes....

Dans ce drame à l'humour lugubre, Corinne cogne à la porte d'un petit immeuble d'appartements délabré, o habitent Marthe, Fred et La Petite. Le poisson rouge qu'elle a apporté en cadeau vient tout juste de mourir de froid. Elle devra redoubler d'efforts si elle tient à s'incruster dans cet univers étrangement familier. Bientt présentée au Théâtre français de Toronto et à La Troupe du Jour de Saskatoon, la pièce Flush révèle des personnages...

What would you do if you were given access to a window into the past? Staring out of the window, the social nuances wouldn't be obvious. Without context, the view might show abject squalor, poverty and ignorance but not enough to understand how people responded to such detrimental societal influences. Criminals would have been dealt with relative to the times, reflective of civic tolerances and in stark contrast to our contemporary collective consciences;...