Bluford Steele, always an outsider because of his Cherokee blood and white man's education, finds his calling as an actor, but he is called to perform a more dangerous role when the acting troupe he is traveling with comes under fire in the lawless town of West Riddle.

An introduction to the fundamentals of beginning acting, this book enhances students' appreciation of the art of acting by helping them realize that they already possess, in principle, the basic skills of the actor: the ability to play a role, the ability to fulfill the sense of drama and to structure dramatic scenes, and the capacity to express emotion. Drawing exercises and examples from students' everyday lives and from well-known films and television...

Includes more than 100 monologues from the world's great movies, produced between the 1930s and the 1980s. All are suitable for use by acting students as audition pieces.

In this comic mystery, Jarrod Jarvis, whose career as teen heartthrob on an eighties sitcom ended abruptly when the tabloids caught him kissing another guy at the gay rodeo, now lives happily in the Hollywood Hills with his policeman boyfriend and their dog Snickers. Just as he's trying to make a career comeback, his best friend and fellow former child star Willard is found face down in his own swimming pool. The cops call it an accident, but Jarrod's...

A splendid collection of monologues from both well-known and obscure scripts

"In London's MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster-a specialist who advises the Prime Minister's office on how policy is likely to be received by the electorate-has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, who was once head of MI5, has been tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads him straight back to Regent's Park itself, with First Desk Diana Taverner...

This title introduces Jim Brown who has had a great influence on his sport and in his society. Career highlights, battles along the way, and humanitarian contributions are discussed. Brown's legacy is told through informative sidebars, captivating photos, and engaging text. SportsZone is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded. In the panic that follows, forty-six terrified people scatter in and around Ford's Theater as soldiers take up stations by the doors and the audience surges into the streets chanting, "Burn the place down!" This is the untold story of Lincoln's assassination: the forty-six stage hands, actors, and theater...

Includes fifty selected professional level comedy monologues for use by high school, college, or professional actors.