This practical book on the subject of how to act, based on Ms. Spivak’s forty years of acting, coaching, and teaching classes – first at Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen’s…
How do actors fuse thought, emotion and action within their creative process? Essential Acting is an inspired and reliable toolbox for actors and teachers in the classroom, the rehearsal room…
This is required reading for anyone passionate about the theater, acting, and the teaching of it. The struggles of a young actor, the actor/director relationship, the challenges of teaching art…
If you want to learn about both the craft and the business of acting, this is the book for you! It begins with the five W’s: Who am I? What…
Today Sanford Meisner, who has been a fixture at the Neighbourhood Play-house for fifty years, is the best known and most beloved teacher ot acting in the country. This book,…
“Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn’t `second nature,’ it is `first nature.'”-Declan Donnellan This immensely popular and ever-practical book on acting…
From a veteran actor, teacher, and author, here is a quick-reference guide aimed at working actors. Got a funny scene that doesn’t seem very funny? Look up “comedy.” Got a…
In vividly anecdotal letters to the young BZ, Anna Deavere Smith addresses the full spectrum of issues that all artists starting out will face: from questions of confidence, discipline, and…
Practiced by such actors of stature as Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Julie Harris, Dustin Hoffman, and Ellen Burstyn (not to mention the late James Dean) the Method offers a…