theater

Provides a directory of more than two hundred new play productions and readings from 1999 to 2000 and includes excerpts from several popular plays.

Provides a practical guide to finding employment in professional theater. Profiles a variety of jobs both on and off the stage, offering job descriptions, statistics, salary ranges, educational and experience requirements, and other facts. Also includes tips for choosing the right university program.

Provides information about various aspects of theatrical production and lists career possibilities in theater. Explores its history and art and discusses the creation of scenery, the importance of rigging and lighting, as well as discussing costumes, make-up techniques, and special effects. Includes photographs and line drawings and a glossary of stage terms.

Explains the benefits of teaching high school students improvisational theater and offers teachers advice on how to incorporate improve into the classroom.

Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.