A Practical Handbook for the Actor

This simple and essential book about the craft of acting describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the Actor is written for any actor who has ever experienced the frustrations of acting classes that lacked clarity and objectivity, and that failed to provide a dependable set of tools. An actor's job, the authors state, is to "find a way to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the play." The ways in which an actor can attain that truth form the substance of this eloquent book.

• Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus
• Audition
• Respect for Acting
• Broadway Musicals, Show-by-Show: Eighth Edition
• A Challenge For The Actor
• Cantabile - A Manual about Beautiful Singing for Singers, Teachers of Singing and Choral Conductors
• True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
• The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of an Actor; Second Revised Edition (Penguin Handbooks)
• The Motherfucker With the Hat
• Sanford Meisner on Acting