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General Theatre/Film Videos and Books

Guide to Performing Arts Programs : Profiles of over 600 Colleges, High Schools, and Summer Programs

A History of Theatre in Africa

Peterson's Professional Degree Programs in the Visual & Performing Arts, 2001 
The Film Actor's Complete Career Guide : A Complete, Step-By-Step Checklist of All the Things Actors Seeking Film Careers Can and Should Do, and When
Computer Videomaker [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]
Script [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]
 
American Theatre [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]
Stage Directions [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]
Entertainment Design [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]
Dramatics [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

"Extra" Work for Brain Surgeons

Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series) (2004)
 
Amazon.com: Magazine Subscriptions: Lighting Dimensions [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

 

Costumes and Scripts in the Elizabethan Theatres

  Theater [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

 Theatre Joblist : The National Employment Service Billboard For Theatre Arts [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]
 
 London Theatre News [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]
 
 American Theatre [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

The Reduced Shakespeare Company - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

The Standard Deviants: Shakespeare Tragedies - Origins and Style

CD ROM: Time, Life, Works: William Shakespeare (Jewel Case)

How-to and Documentaries
Theatre Video Series: Creative Drama & Improvisation
Theatre Video Series:  The Directing Process
Theatre Video Series: How Do I Paint It? [Scenery painting effects]
Theatre Video Series: Shedding Some Light [Lighting design]
Theatre Video Series: Where Do I Start? [Designing Scenery for Theatre]
What They Don't Teach You at Film School : 161 Strategies to Making Your Own Movie No Matter What

Man With the Movie Camera (Classic Soviet film)

Syd Field's Screenwriting Workshop
Videomaker: Sound Success
Videomaker: Video Editing
Videomaker: Basic Shooting - Revised Edition
Videomaker: Advanced Shooting
Videomaker: Lighting Techniques
 
Videomaker: Desktop Video - Revised
Classical Monologues for Men : Monologues from 16th, 17th, and 18th Century Plays

Basics of Directing for The Stage

A Source Book in Theatrical History
The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook
 
The Theatre Props Handbook : A Comprehensive Guide to Theater Properties, Materials and Construction
 
Horrible Prettiness : Burlesque and American Culture (Cultural Studies of the United States)
Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects
 
MovieMaker Magazine [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Restored

PUPPET FESTIVAL

 Biography - Great Ziegfeld

Peterson's Breaking into Film : Making Your Career Search a Blockbuster
 
Hollywood Scams & Survival Tactics

Shakespeare In London

The Empty Space [Peter Brook]

Looking for Richard

Guys & Dolls - Off the Record

Off Nevsky Prospekt : St. Peterburg's Theatre Studios in the 1980s & 1990s (Russian Theatre Archive Series)
Scene Design and Stage Lighting
Theatrical Design and Production : An Introduction to Scene Design and Construction, Lighting, Sound, Costume, and Makeup
The Italian Comedy : The Improvisation, Scenarios, Lives, Atrod. by Fred Eggan. by William A. Glaser and David L. Sills. J. G. Crowther.
Harlequin on the Moon : Commedia Dell'Arte and the Visual Arts
The Country Wife (Cambridge Literature)
Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Five Comedies (Everyman
The Secret Life of Aphra Behn
Restoration Plays (Everyman Paperback Classics)
A History of the Minstrel Show

The Ultimate Audition Book for Teens 2 : 111 One-Minute Monologues (Young Actor Series)

Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910
The Rover and Other Plays (The World's Classics)
Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage

Variety [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan
 
Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage : Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England
Staging the Jew : The Performance of an American Ethnicity, 1860-1920
 
The Empty Space
 
History of the Theatre

Videomaker: Video Editing

Russian and Soviet Theatre: Tradition and the Avant-Garde

Interview [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

Notable Plays 

Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado (1987)

Marat Sade

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet

 The Mahabharata Film Version [Peter Brook]

A Man for All Seasons
King Lear
Othello
Silent Shakespeare
Richard III

Romeo and Juliet (Widescreen Edition)

Death of a Salesman & Private Conversations

Of Mice and Men

Macbeth (1971)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

 A Midsummer Night's Dream 

The Tempest

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - The 25th... VHS

Richard III (1955)

Love's Labour's Lost

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Julius Caesar

Caesar & Cleopatra

The Merchant of Venice

An Ideal Husband

The Importance of Being Earnest

Hamlet

Hamlet (1996)

Hamlet (Widescreen Edition)

Gilbert & Sullivan - Iolanthe

Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado (1966 D'Oyly Carte)

Hamlet - Criterion Collection
Henry V - Criterion Collection
 

Cyrano de Bergerac

Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe
Lady Windermere's Fan (Dover Thrift Editions)
 
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde : Stories, Plays, Poems and Essays
 
Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions)
The Way of the World (Dover Thrift Editions)
The School for Scandal (Dover Thrift Editions)
The Rivals (Dover Thrift Editions)
Arms and the Man (Dover Thrift Editions)
Miss Julie (Dover Thrift Editions)
Ghosts (Dover Thrift Editions)
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
An Enemy of the People (Dover Thrift Editions)
Uncle Vanya (Dover Thrift Editions)
The Three Sisters (Dover Thrift Editions) [UNABRIDGED]
Sea Gull (Dover Thrift Editions)
The Emperor Jones (Dover Thrift Editions)
Anna Christie (Dover Thrift Editions)
She Stoops to Conquer (Dover Thrift Editions)
Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays (Dover Thrift Editions)
Volpone (Dover Thrift Editions)
Dr. Faustus (Dover Thrift Editions)
The Misanthrope (Dover Thrift Editions)
Electra (Dover Thrift Editions) [UNABRIDGED]
Oedipus at Colonus (Dover Thrift Editions)
Medea (Dover Thrift Editions)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Dover Thrift Editions)
Measure for Measure (Dover Thrift Editions) [UNABRIDGED]
Spoon River Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)
Hands Around : A Cycle of Ten Dialogues (Dover Thrift Editions)

Films on Life in the Theatre

Topsy-Turvy on DVD

Topsy-Turvy

Theatre of Blood (Incredible British comedy about a bad Shakespearian Actor and his critics, an absolute must see cult favorite for theatre lovers.)

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