Compiled from a series of interviews with various software engineers specializing in entertainment lighting products, these conversations discuss the ideas and developments behind many of our most well-known controls, dimmers, moving lights and other gadgetry necessary for modern performance lighting.
The History of Costume
by Blanche Payne, Geitel Winakor, and Jane Farrell-Beck
This sweeping survey traces the evolution of costume throughout Western history. It examines changes in dress, the role of fashion, influences on Western dress, and how costumes fit their times.
Complete make-up instructions for twelve monster masks including a werewolf, a vampire, and a mummy.
Regional Theatre Directory, 1992-93
The Beginner’s Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions, providing an invaluable step-by-step guide. Beginning with a brief history of opera and detailing its difference from musical theatre, this book covers stage management best practices through prep, rehearsals, tech, performance, and wrap up. From the moment a manager accepts a contract, right through to archiving paperwork, this essential toolkit co...
Dise~no de Iluminacion Escenica (Coleccion Narrativa Historica, #4)
by Jose Miguel Lopez Saez
Motion Capture in Performance explores the historical origins, properties and implications of Motion Capture. It introduces a new mode of performance for the commercial film, animation, and console gaming industries - 'Performance Capture', a distinct interdisciplinary discourse in the fields of theatre, animation, performance studies and film.
Have you ever been to a movie and wondered how in the world makeup artists make the characters come alive? For special effects makeup guru Bruna Nogueria, it's all in a day's work. The Hollywood Make-Up Lab offers a peek into some of the coolest special effects tips and tricks, from Crime Scene Investigation sets to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Nogueria has accumulated a wealth of cosmetic knowledge to share with you! Learn how to create some of the most interesting fantasy, science fiction,...
Practical Approach to Costume Design and Construction
by Beverly Jane Thomas
Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project
by Una Chaudhuri and Shonni Enelow
Theatre is a uniquely powerful site for the kind of thinking called for by the crises of climate change. The growing scientific and public consensus about the many looming crises following from climate change is matched by an increasing interest, on the part of artists and scholars, to identify creative strategies and practices capable of mounting adequate and appropriate responses to those crises. Encompassing academic research, theatre work-shopping, playwriting, dramaturgy, and theoretical wr...
STAGECRAFT REVISED (C)
This title was first published in 2003. In this new socio-cultural study of the history of the theatre in early modern England, author Paola Pugliatti investigates the question of why, in the Tudor and early Stuart period, unregulated and unlicensed theatrical activities were equated by the English law to unregulated and unlicensed begging. Starting with English vagrancy statutes and in particular from the fact that, from 1545 on, players were listed as vagrants, the book discusses from an entir...