Smith Kraus imprint: 53 books

Contemporary! New! Real! These plays reflect the interests, issues, humor, and speech patterns of teens. They vary from four to twenty-two characters, gritty drama to farcical comedy. The plays can even interlock to create a longer piece, if desired! This is the must-have book for teachers and students looking for juicy material for teens.

Larry Silverberg, author of the revolutionary four book series The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actor's Workbook now brings to you Workbook Three: Tackling the Text. In this exciting next step of the Meisner technique, Silverberg guides you through a specific and step-by-step method of bringing a...

Prepare your audition repertoire with the most innovative monologue series to date-Audition Arsenal! Are you tired of buying monologue books only to discard half of the pieces because they are outside of your age range? Not anymore! The first four books in this breakthrough series are for: Women in...

As much poem as it is play, Goethe's Faust is the spiritual quest of a soul determined to explore the very nature of Reality, a revolutionary work that refuses to accept limitations, but, like Romanicism itself, embraces all, the Natural World of everyday life, as well as the Great World of universal experience, the macrocosm as well as the microcosm.

The Act or Craft is the delivery system for mind and heart. It deals with the tricks of the trade that have been passed from actor to actor for hundreds of years. The book breaks the subject into fifty categories with scripted exercises coaching tips for the teacher, and advice to the actor in training....

My Third Latino Monologue Book is the third title in a groundbreaking new collection designed to support K-3 students in beginning acting classes whose first language, or, language most frequently spoken at home, is Spanish. Divided into four sections about life in general, school, brothers and sisters,...

It is 1938. Berta Weissberger,twelve years old, lives in Hindenburg, Germany, with her mother and older sister. Her father has already left for America, and the family is awaiting the arrival of thei rAmerican visas. These hopes and plans are destroyed at the end of October 1938, however, when Jews...

The five plays in this volume represent Strindberg (1849-1912) at the height of his dramatic powers. In his great works Strindberg is a playwright second to none, and as such he shares the world stage with his major contemporaries: Ibsen, Chekhov, Pirandello and Shaw.

This is it! The real story of what goes on behind the scenes. Camera Smart provides actors with an exclusive and much needed look at the inner workings of a film set. By following an actor on his first day of work you encounter the jargon, the situations, the people, the failures and successes of...

The plays in this volume are Loving Daniel Boone, The Holdup, Circus Valentine, Sarah and Abraham, Getting Out, Traveler in the Dark, and Third and Oak. This collection will also include introductory notes by the playwright, original cast and production information.

Dramatizing Greek Mythology is an ideal way to develop acting and speaking skills and an appreciation of classic literature. Written for teachers and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, the book offers plays suitable for students of all academic backgrounds and English...