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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Theatre games help to develop students' skills in storytelling, improvisation, and public speaking. They also build confidence, teamwork, and vocabulary. Here is a collection of theatre games that have been classroom tested. Try the collaborative and fun activity "The Monster with Three Heads." Three students form one monster where each participant can say just one word at a time in response to students' questions. In addition, they must answer in...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of a genius: the late Stephen Sondheim in a series of illuminating and deeply personal interviews from the last years of his life—conversations that show the composer-lyricist as he has likely never been seen before.
In 2017, longtime New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max began working on a major profile of Stephen Sondheim that would be timed to the eventual premiere of a new musical Sondheim was writing. Sadly , that process –...
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Series
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Act out this inspiring story about a family's journey to immigrate to America. Students will get a feel for what life was like for immigrants by acting out the various roles in this script. This script includes roles written at various reading levels, allowing teachers to implement differentiation and English language learner strategies. This feature allows teachers to assign each role based on their students' individual reading levels, encouraging...
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Series
Publisher
Pottermore from J.K. Rowling
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
El magizoólogo Newt Scamander llega a Nueva York para hacer una breve escala. Pero pierde su maletín mágico y algunas de sus criaturas logran escapar, causando muchos problemas para todos...
Inspirada en el libro de texto de Hogwarts escrito por Newt Scamander, Animales fantásticos y dónde encontrarlos: el guión original de la película marca el debut como guionista de J. K. Rowling, autora de la serie de libros sobre Harry Potter de gran éxito...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An own-voices LGBTQ novel from the acclaimed author of Hurricane Season, about eighth-grader Brie, who learns how to be true to herself and to her relationships with family, friends, and faith.
Introducing Brie Hutchens: soap opera super fan, aspiring actor, and so-so student at her small Catholic school. Brie has big plans for eighth grade. She's going to be the star of the school play and convince her parents to let her go to the performing arts...
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Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When Alex woke up from the Renaissance nightmare, the Mystical Pencil was nowhere to be found. Until he gets to school that is! There he discovers Sara has found the pencil and is using it to draw costumes and sets for the school play. She doesn't believe Alex's warnings until it is too late! Can Alex and Sara work together to take the farm out of the school and back onstage? Graphic Planet is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group....
Author
Publisher
Bluefish Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
QUICK BRIGHT THINGS is a delightful new novel about the Golden Age of Broadway. Set in New York in 1948, it follows Artie, a young rehearsal pianist, Joe, a visionary director, and Carrie, his intrepid Girl Friday, as they shepherd a production of a musical version of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM towards opening night. Drawn from the personal experiences of its author, QUICK BRIGHT THINGS is a glittering love letter to the Great White Way-and all the...
8) Act Cool
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A trans teen walks the fine line between doing whatever it takes for his acting dream and staying true to himself in this moving, thought-provoking YA novel from the acclaimed author of Stay Gold.
Aspiring actor August Greene just landed a coveted spot at the prestigious School of Performing Arts in New York. There’s only one problem: His conservative parents won’t accept that he’s transgender. And to stay with his aunt in the city, August...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In The Nutcracker's Night Before Christmas preparations for a doomed stage production of the classic ballet goes from terribly bad to ridiculously worse. Sick stagehands, renegade cats, and crashing Christmas trees have everyone sure that the show won't go on. But it's Christmas Eve and help is on the way! Told in verse with wonderful whimsical illustrations, this story hits all the right notes for holiday reading.
Author
Series
Chance to fly volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt middle-grade novel about a theater-loving girl who uses a wheelchair for mobility and her quest to defy expectations—and gravity—from Tony award–winning actress Ali Stroker and Stacy Davidowitz
Thirteen-year-old Nat Beacon loves a lot of things: her dog Warbucks, her best friend Chloe, and competing on her wheelchair racing team, the Zoomers, to name a few. But there’s one thing she’s absolutely OBSESSED with:...
Thirteen-year-old Nat Beacon loves a lot of things: her dog Warbucks, her best friend Chloe, and competing on her wheelchair racing team, the Zoomers, to name a few. But there’s one thing she’s absolutely OBSESSED with:...
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Sixth graders Devin and Frankie try to save star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet when they’re magically transported into Shakespeare’s classic play.
When their teacher assigns Devin and Frankie—short for Francine—the lead roles in their class production of Romeo and Juliet, the two best friends aren’t thrilled. How are they supposed to say their lines when they don’t even sound
...When their teacher assigns Devin and Frankie—short for Francine—the lead roles in their class production of Romeo and Juliet, the two best friends aren’t thrilled. How are they supposed to say their lines when they don’t even sound
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When Jane Sutcliffe sets out to write a book about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, in her own words, she runs into a problem: Will's words keep popping up all over the place! What's an author to do? After all, Will is responsible for such familiar phrases as "what's done is done" and "too much of a good thing." He even helped turn "household words" into household words.
But, Jane embraces her dilemma, writing about Shakespeare,...
But, Jane embraces her dilemma, writing about Shakespeare,...
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Series
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
At every stage of her career, Barbra Streisand's genius finds its fullest measure in screen song, first in Emmy-winning TV specials, then in Hollywood blockbusters from “Funny Girl to Funny Lady”. She goes on, as emerging auteur, to direct her own "musical concepts" in “A Star Is Born” before reconceiving the big-screen musical altogether in the writing as well as directing of her own starring role in Yentl ("A Film with Music"). In this intensive...
14) Upstaged
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A shy actress steps into the spotlight in this charming middle-grade novel
Shira Gordon is painfully shy. She rarely speaks and blushes at everything. And yet, when she's alone in her room, she'll sing and dance, dreaming she were different. So when her best friend forces her to audition for their school's production of The Music Man, she's mostly hoping the play will get canceled... but a tiny part of her hopes she'll get in.
And she does. As a...
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