The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer6 reviews Patsy Rodenburg Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 Practically Great + most complete voice guide for the actor + One of the best + The Actor Speaks             Respect for Acting27 reviews Uta Hagen Wiley, 1973 Great--but skip and read "A Challenge for the Actor" + The best lessons ever laid out! + A Classic This book is great, don't get me wrong. But her later book, "A Challenge for the Actor" takes everything of value in this book, elaborates on it, and adds oodles more information and insight (reflecting the author's own revising of her approach and methods over the years). Reading both isn't ...             Building a Character11 reviews Constantin Stanislavski Theatre Arts Books, 1989 Theater, performance, acting + One of the best acting books out there + A Map for Success + Very Resourceful and Informative + You Think You Know             The Actor and the Target: New Edition2 reviews Declan Donnellan Theatre Communications Group, 2006 Excellent Resource For Actors + insight into actor's process This is an excellent resource for actors. The general guidlines are great. But the part I liked best of all were the specific examples regarding an actor faced with the difficulties of playing Juliet. The specific examples are complex and so helpful in fleshing out the general guidlines and for ...             The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate12 reviews Peter Brook Touchstone, 1995 Required Reading + An innovator's ideas about Theatre + Brook's Genius + Peter Brook + Take heed             Creating a Role3 reviews Constantin Stanislavski Theatre Arts Books, 1989 One Of The BEST! + Completes Stanislavski's classic series This book shocked me. In buying it I had envisioned receiving an "okay" book. I was so wrong. This book is incredible. I found myself highlighting/making notes/and never letting the book close. This book helps the actor who really, really needs help. It sounds odd, but this book can make ...             Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text3 reviews Kristin Linklater Theatre Communications Group, 1993 Absolute necessary for the Shakespearean Scholar + How to take your Shakespeare to the next level The master teacher Kristin Linklater has written a user-friendly, brilliant book on her approach to Shakespeare's language. Anyone interested in reading or performing Shakespeare shouldn't be without it.             Writing in Restaurants4 reviews David Mamet Penguin (Non-Classics), 1987 Eat and Write A Novel + Delicious! + Good stuff here + Inspiring one to be better             My Life in Art4 reviews Konstantin Stanislavsky Theatre Arts Books, 1974 For the actor and the historian + From the Russian Master himself! + A Life To Aspire To + a first hand account of the birth of the modern theatre             Theatre in Crisis?: Performance Manifestos for a New Century Maria M. Delgado, Caridad Svich Manchester University Press, 2002 Theatre in Crisis? Performance Manifestos for a New Century is a wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theater practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. The volume offers a snapshot dissection of where theater is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theater artists and scholars from the UK, US, ...             A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art in Theatre7 reviews Anne Bogart Routledge, 2001 How any theater artist prepares + like my bible, but not my manual + A must have for your theatre library + A Landmark for Theater             Upstaged: Making Theatre in the Media Age7 reviews Theatre Arts Book, 2005 Who wouldn't be fascinated? + fascinating book on theatre today + A Must Read for Theatre Buffs! + Upstaged, for those who love and live by live performance + Breathless             Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama17 reviews David Mamet Vintage, 2000 My Copy Is Torn To Shreds! + So much in this short volume. + A contemporary poetic. I bought this book when it first came out in hardcover. It was about triple the price that it is now on Amazon, and many people I knew thought I was insane to buy such a small book for a high price. But to me -- it was all too worth it. David Mamet is all at once a very clear writer and a very ...             Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part53 reviews Michael Shurtleff Walker & Company, 2003 Must read for the actor + AdaptedToKnowledge + A Must Read + Fantastically Helpful + Totally necessary for any actors library             Theatre of the Oppressed4 reviews Augusto Boal Theatre Communications Group, 1993 Inspiration for the Artist + Blow MY MIND! + Extra Credit Perhaps the pursuit of art in this world of massive economic, social and legal inequality is simply privileged playing and bemusement? Perhaps art has no valued, but as marketable, profitable entertainment? Or, perhaps art (and specifically theatre) can actually change the world? Boal is not ...             The Theatre and Its Double (Calderbook) Antonin Artaud Riverrun Press (New York, NY), 1996             True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor63 reviews David Mamet Vintage, 1997 Book to read for up and coming actors + Good Read for Any Actor + Good stuff + Don't throw out the baby with the bath water!             Sanford Meisner on Acting32 reviews Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell Vintage, 1987 a masterpiece... + A Great View of Meisner Acting + great book + Meisner On Acting Review + A Free Meisner Class with the Man Himself             An Actor Prepares28 reviews Constantin Stanislavski Theatre Arts Book, 1989 Definitely The Bible for actors. + Superb, excellent, im grateful! + Very Informative + any performing artist should read this book...             Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama17 reviews David Mamet Vintage, 2000 My Copy Is Torn To Shreds! + So much in this short volume. + A contemporary poetic. I bought this book when it first came out in hardcover. It was about triple the price that it is now on Amazon, and many people I knew thought I was insane to buy such a small book for a high price. But to me -- it was all too worth it. David Mamet is all at once a very clear writer and a very ...