Learn how to be comfortable in the spotlight--whether as a speaker or performer--with tips from singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor, a teacher at the renowned Berklee College of Music.

Performance Success teaches a set of skills so that a musician can be ready to go out and sing or play at his or her highest level, working with energies that might otherwise be wasted in unproductive ways. This is a book of skills and exercises, prepared by a master teacher.

Beginning with the triple impulses of Naturalism, symbolism and the grotesque, the bulk of the book concentrates on the most famous directors of this century - Stanislavski, Reinhardt, Graig, Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht, Artuaud and Grotowski. Braun's guide is more practical than theoretical, delineating how each director changed the tradition that came before him.

John Graham shares his stand-up magic routines.

A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War

MARK SCHULMAN - CONQUERING LIFE'S STAGE FRIGHT