theaters

A guide to designing and constructing scenery for a variety of stages and different types of productions.

Provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions on how to create special effects for the stage without breaking the budget, discussing a variety of disciplines, including lighting, sound, scenic effects, costumes, transformations, make-up, pyrotechnics, fire, and others.

Discusses theater in the time of William Shakespeare, describes some of the venues in which his works were performed, and provides information on costumes, properties and stage setting, acting style, and the rebuilding of the Globe Theater.

Pictures and text describe the Globe Theatre and the actors who performed Shakespeare's plays there.

Tilly is thrilled when she gets to see her aunt perform in the ballet, "The Sleeping Beauty," especially because she gets to go backstage and even on the stage itself.

A handbook detailing the responsibilities of each member of a Theatre Technical crew.

After sixth-grader Nina sees a ghost sitting in the audience, strange things begin to happen on the set, so Nina decides to do some ghost hunting on her own.

An adaptation of Gaston Leroux's classic novel in which a disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House falls in love with a beautiful soprano and, in his desperation to have his love returned, embarks on some terrifying means toward that end.

Shows theaters and theatrical techniques from the ancient world to the modern stage.

At an abandoned outdoor movie theater, fifty-five bats perform in a toe-tapping, wing-flapping revue--and await the grand finale.