Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim
$100.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Stephen Sondheim has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, seven Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and the Kennedy Center Honors. His career has spanned more than half a century, his lyrics have become synonymous with musical theater and popular culture, and in "Finishing the Hat"--titled after perhaps his most au ...Show more
Stage and Screen Character: The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page by Robert Mckee
$59.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
From the best-selling author of STORY and DIALOGUE 'McKee teaches what is not yet taught. He shines his unwavering analytical light on the structure and invisible sub-structure of dialogue. He takes a craft that is often considered instinctual or magical and reveals its chemical secrets. I've been writi ...Show more
Center Center - A Funny, Sexy, Sad Almost-Memoir of a Boy in Ballet by James Whiteside
$40.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
"James Whiteside is an electrifying performer, an incredible athlete, and an artist, through and through. To know James is to love him; with Center Center, you are about to fall in love." --Jennifer Garner "Exquisitely raw, hilarious, and fresh . . . Center Center shows there's a place in the world for ...Show more
Last Days of the Opera by Kircher, Christian
$70.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
A major anthology on opera edited by leading specialists in the field.The title is inspired by the epic drama The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus. Published in full in 1922, the author ridicules the interconnected ills of modernity that he saw as fueling the war machine: nationalism, capitalism, unbr ...Show more
Ballet: The Essential Guide to Technique and Creative Practice by JENNIFER JACKSON
$75.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Ballet is a detailed guide to creative practice and performance. Compiled by ten leading practitioners, each chapter focuses on an aspect of ballet as a performing art. Together they outline a journey from the underpinning principles of ballet, through an appreciation of different styles and schooling, ...Show more
Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway by Michael Riedel, (Th
$30.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
The story of the rise, fall, and redemption of Broadway its stars, its biggest shows, its producers, and all the drama, intrigue, and power plays that happened behind the scenes unfolds faster than a curtain going up on opening night .A must read (Kevin Spacey). A rich, lovely, debut history of New York ...Show more
Adelaide Festival 60 Years - 1960-2020 by Catherine McKinnon (Editor)
$70.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
The Adelaide Festival is as much shaped by people and place as it in turn shapes people and place; its identity is a weird and wild shifting thing. It is not owned by one individual, but belongs to everyone.Adelaide Festival 60 Years is an astounding cacophony of images and tales that revel in the life ...Show more
Actor and the Target by DONNELLAN DECLAN
$35.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Thorougly revised, second edition of one of the most successful theatre books ever published by NHB - a definitive guide to acting. "The Actor and the Target" offers a fresh and radical approach to acting by a world-famous director. Now republished in an extensively revised new edition, it has sold almo ...Show more
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter
$75.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
A backstage pass to the groundbreaking, hit musical Hamilton, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, including the award-winning libretto, behind-the-scenes photos and interviews, and exclusive footnotes from composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda. ...Show more
Royal Opera House by Harry Cory Wright; Alex Beard CBE (Introduction by)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Theatre | Series: Pocket Photo Bks.
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, presents some of the most accomplished ballet and opera artists in productions of world-renowned quality and remarkable scale. There have been three theatres on the site. The original theatre opened in December 1732 and served initially as a playhouse. The first bal ...Show more
Soar: A Life Freed by Dance (HB) by David McAllister with Amanda Dunn
$40.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a story of courage to fight against the odds for your passion and succeed. David McAllister has always belonged onstage. As the middle child in a Catholic family who knew nothing about dance, he watched himself twirl in the reflective glass ...Show more
The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes by Gyles Brandreth
$40.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard and Mamet, from Richard Burbage to Richard Briers, f ...Show more