Offers some techniques useful for helping students overcome tension-producing expectations about acting. (MH)

Describes an integrated approach to teaching broad-based theatre skills, including script analysis, research, design, directing, and acting. (PD)

Suggestions for improving the teaching of performance by actively involving the classroom audience. (CH)

Formal plays offer opportunities for a child to develop skills in memorization oral expression, teamwork, and leadership. (Author)

A listing and brief discussion of plays and audiovisuals the author used with success in secondary schools. (AF)

Deplores the pretenders" not on the stage but in the director's role on campus. (Editor)

Discusses necessity for the black theater to divorce itself from dependence upon white foundation support; holds that black theater should be supported by its own community. (KG)

Examines reasons why those who engage in performance and direct performances take up the burden. Considers performance an authentic, primary experience; a way of knowing; and also a way of knowing what is worth knowing. (PD)

An American press history teacher develops student interest in his topic by masquerading as major personalities in the history of journalism. (RL)

This resource presents scripts for eight Shakespearean plays. The scripts are adapted for classroom presentation by intermediate level students. Each play includes introductory materials, instructions for staging and costumes, a vocabulary list, and a cast of characters. Enough roles are provided for participation by every child in the class. Many…

Article described a course taught at a university department of theater that was designed to deepen our cognizance of the potential of the human body as a dance instrument as it widened our knowledge of dance in the context of human history. (Author/RK)

A consideration of basic acting courses for college students not majoring in theatre. (CH)

The best art experience has often been characterized as a kind of balance between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the expected and the unexpected, the easy and the hard. Good directors and actors have the artistry to be able to play on the orientation reactions of the audience. They know how to structure a production or performance so that it…

The grading system for technical practicums in theatre at California State University, San Bernandino uses an evaluation form completed by each student's practicum supervisor. The evaluation form gives concrete evidence that there are viable criteria for grading practicums, and also helps if a student wishes to challenge his or her grade. Usually…

Acting Style refers to the individual characteristics of appearance, voice, movement, and temperament that distinguish one actor from another. Based on the theory that the black actor tends to approach a role presentation on a visceral level of communication, in contrast to the white actor's intellectual approach, this study identified those…