theater

After visiting the farm, the children in Ms. MacDonald's class learn to move and look and sound very different while preparing to present the performance of a lifetime.

When Priscilla does not get the lead part in the rollerskating school's play she is disappointed, but instead she gets the part that is just right for her.

Stagestruck Blanche would like to be a part of a theatrical bear troupe's new play, but, her shyness causes problems until she discovers a special talent of her very own.

After failing as a novelist and botching his own suicide attempt Sergei Maksudov tries life as a playwrite in Moscow, but things go awry when the egos of actors, the jealousy of the critics, the comunist censors, and other influences take hold over the production.

Biography of the author of "Dracula," detailing his role as the manager of London's Lyceum Theatre, his cultivation of actor Henry Irving, and exploring the link between Stoker's life and his fiction.

Discusses the acting techniques of Tadashi Suzuki, covers spiritual and philosophical body and mind aspects of acting, the annual Toga Festival, and his merging of traditional and avant-garde techniques, and presents the author's adaptation of the Greek tragedy "Clytemnestra.".

Examines the theatre throughout time, from early Greek, Roman, and Asian theatre through the performance art of the early twenty-first century, covering how contemporary scholarship informs the interpretation of the art form, and discusses the social, political, and economic conditions of each period.

An overview of African and Caribbean theater that traces its development, discusses traditional and contemporary movements, examines the theater's influence on the countries mentioned, and profiles major playwrights, actors, and plays.

Seventeen-year-old Will's behavior has been getting him in trouble at his all-boys school in Sydney, Australia, but his latest punishment, playing in the band for a musical production, gives him new insights into his fellow students and helps him cope with an incident he has tried to forget.

Presents a study of European drama, covering Greek tragedy through twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual representations of identity, including topics such as the German Enlightenment and the work of Corneille, Goethe, Ibsen, Chekhov, and Beckett.