theater

When her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Molly moves from Indiana to California, to live with her newly discovered father, a Hollywood megastar, and his pampered teenage daughter.

Mia Fullerton reluctantly opts to spend her summer as part of the stage crew at a local children's theater group; but as the summer progresses, she realizes that she actually enjoys acting.

Fourteen-year-old Jaime has always been a doormat, but her diary reveals how getting the lead in a school play, finding her first boyfriend, discovering her dream, and helping her best friend cope with being pregnant transform her life.

Outlines career opportunities in theater and the performing arts, discussing such aspects as salaries, skill requirements, advancement prospects, and how to get started in the business.

Discusses ways to develop your imagination, transform your ideas into different kinds of plays, and present your finished product to an audience.

Considers the rise of the theater from its origins in ancient Greece through Roman theater and the medieval plays which evolved in Europe, through England's great age of theater to present-day dramatic performances.

Hoping to earn the money to get his brother out of prison, Seraki joins the cast of a musical written to express rage at conditions in their South African township and travels to perform it in New York.

Phyre is a girl who doesn't know what she wants. She loves theater, but when Mia, her new theater teacher shows up, Phyre's feelings go haywire. She feels like she loves Mia, but that love goes unrequited. Meanwhile there is "You"--Phyre's best friend in the novel's screenplay character cast--who is constantly by her side, who might just feel love for Phyre in the same way Phyre loves Mia.

Back home in Brooklyn, fifteen-year-old Viola has big summer plans but with one best friend going to camp and the other not only working but experiencing her first crush, Viola is glad to be overworked as an unpaid lighting intern when her grandmother's play goes to Broadway.