Performing Arts - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
Herrmann's Book of Magic - Alexander Herrmann
Herrmann's Book of Magic - Alexander Herrmann
- Author: Alexander Herrmann
- Genre: Crafts & Hobbies / Performing Arts
Black Art Fully Exposed.A complete and practical guide to drawing-room and stage magic for professionals and amateurs, including a complete exposure of the black art. (Summary by Prof. Herrmann)...
Intimate Talks with Movie Stars - Edward Weitzel
Intimate Talks with Movie Stars - Edward Weitzel
- Author: Edward Weitzel
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Performing Arts
A collection of interviews originally published in Moving Picture World that aims to give the movie-mad public "intimate pen pictures of the stars of the screen." Weitzel interviews some of the most renowned film stars of the 1920s: Mary Pickford,...
The Humbugs of the World - P. T. Barnum
The Humbugs of the World - P. T. Barnum
- Author: P. T. Barnum
- Genre: Performing Arts / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal reminiscences, and much more. (Summary by...
Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring - Professor Louis Hoffman
Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring - Professor Louis Hoffman
- Author: Professor Louis Hoffman
- Genre: Performing Arts / Sports & Recreation
This "how-to" book covers everything for the 1800's illusionist, from stage presence & dress, program and stage arrangement, to how to do tricks with cards, coins, watches, rings, handkerchiefs, dominoes and dice, cups and balls, hats, and other...
Stories From Wagner - J. Walker McSpadden
Stories From Wagner - J. Walker McSpadden
- Author: J. Walker McSpadden
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Performing Arts
Eleven stories of eleven operas by Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. Die Walküre. Siegfried. Götterdämmerung. Parsifal. Lohengrin. Tannhäuser. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Rienzi. Die Fliegende Holländer. Tristan und Isolde. - Summary by david...
Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, written by Himself - P. T. Barnum
Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, written by Himself - P. T. Barnum
- Author: P. T. Barnum
- Genre: Performing Arts / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The 1873 edition of the autobiography of the founding genius of the "Greatest Show on Earth," P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum. It details his life and business struggles up to the year 1872. Not only a showman and a museum operator, but an antislavery...
Life and Lillian Gish - Albert Bigelow Paine
Life and Lillian Gish - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Performing Arts
An authorized biography of Lillian Gish, the renowned silent film star known in her heyday as the First Lady of American Cinema. Albert Bigelow Paine chronicles Gish's early life, her close relationship with her sister Dorothy, her rise in film as...
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé - Harry Houdini
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé - Harry Houdini
- Author: Harry Houdini
- Genre: Performing Arts
"A complete exposé of the modus operandi of fire eaters, heat resisters, poison eaters, venomous reptile defiers, sword swallowers, human ostriches, strong men, etc.", [by Harry Houdini, from the subtitle]....
Coffee Break Collection 012 - The Performing Arts - Various
Coffee Break Collection 012 - The Performing Arts - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Performing Arts
This is the twelfth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have...
Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners - Theodore DREISER
Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners - Theodore DREISER
- Author: Theodore DREISER
- Genre: Performing Arts
Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part expose on the motion picture industry. In it, he shares his observations from his extended stay in Los Angeles,...
Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1 - Marcus Fabius QUINTILIANUS
Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1 - Marcus Fabius QUINTILIANUS
- Author: Marcus Fabius QUINTILIANUS
- Genre: Education / Performing Arts
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and was the first rhetorician to set up a genuine public school and to receive a salary from the State. He left...
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Genre: Education / Performing Arts
The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is commonly known, is laid in the sixth year of Vespasian, 75 a.D. The commentators are much divided in their opinions about the real author; his work they all agree is a masterpiece in the kind;...
Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright - A Study - Hamilton FYFE
Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright - A Study - Hamilton FYFE
- Author: Hamilton FYFE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism / Performing Arts
A discussion about the life and works of the playwright Arthur Wing Pinero. The perfect accompaniment to the plays by Pinero available here at Librivox. (Refer to the etext for cast lists of plays - through 1901 - mentioned in the Section 12...
Biographical Notice Of Nicolo Paganini With An Analysis Of His Compositions And A Sketch Of The History Of The Violin - Francois-Joseph FETIS
Biographical Notice Of Nicolo Paganini With An Analysis Of His Compositions And A Sketch Of The History Of The Violin - Francois-Joseph FETIS
- Author: Francois-Joseph FETIS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Music / Performing Arts
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (1782 – 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. François-Joseph Fétis...
Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace - John M. BURKE
Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace - John M. BURKE
- Author: John M. BURKE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Performing Arts
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody is one of the legends of the American western frontier. As a teen he rode for the pony expressed and then drove for the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. He later rejoined the army as a scout and was awarded...
There's Laughter in the Air! Radio's Top Comedians and Their Best Shows - Jack GAVER
There's Laughter in the Air! Radio's Top Comedians and Their Best Shows - Jack GAVER
- Author: Jack GAVER
- Genre: Performing Arts
There's Laughter in the Air takes readers on a sidesplitting romp through the world of old-time radio comedy. It gives a brief history of the medium and brief but intimate accounts of some of the biggest acts from the 1930s and 1940s. Gaver and...
Maccabe's Art of Ventriloquism and Vocal Illusions - Frederic MACCABE
Maccabe's Art of Ventriloquism and Vocal Illusions - Frederic MACCABE
- Author: Frederic MACCABE
- Genre: Crafts & Hobbies / Performing Arts
This manual offers instructions on how to become a ventriloquist. Starting out from a general introduction of ventriloquism, it explains how sounds are formed in the human body and how the voice is used. It then provides exercises for the budding...
Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves - Lillian Shearon
Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves - Lillian Shearon
- Author: Lillian Shearon
- Genre: Performing Arts
Reading the Cup is essentially a domestic form of Fortune-telling to be practiced at home, and with success by anyone who will take the trouble to master the simple rules laid down in these pages: and it is in the hope that it will provide a basis...
Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Author: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Genre: Performing Arts / Memoirs
Anna Cora Mowatt was the author of the first Broadway comedy hit written by a woman. Her 1845 play “Fashion” is still performed today. She was also the first woman to professionally perform solo public readings of literature in the U.S. In pre-Civil...
The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism - Clayton Hamilton
The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism - Clayton Hamilton
- Author: Clayton Hamilton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Performing Arts
A collection of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton concerning theatre & dramatic practices, and the criticism thereof, from an early 20th century perspective. - Summary by Andrew Gaunce...
The Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred stories - Julia Darrow COWLES
The Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred stories - Julia Darrow COWLES
- Author: Julia Darrow COWLES
- Genre: Anthologies / Performing Arts
In preparing this book the author has sought to awaken a keener perception and a higher appreciation of the artistic and ethical value of story-telling; to simplify some of its problems; to emphasize the true delight which the story-teller may share...
My Actor-Husband - Anonymous
My Actor-Husband - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Performing Arts
In presenting this autobiography to the public, the author feels it incumbent upon herself to impress upon her readers the fidelity and strict adherence to the truth, relative to the conditions which surround the player. In no instance has there...
The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (Version 2) - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (Version 2) - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Performing Arts / Philosophy / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This is one of Nietzsche's early academic writings - a scholarly theory about Ancient Greek theatre, specifically tragedies. In a nutshell, this work theorizes about why (Greek) spectators enjoy watching actors in a long series of scenes that depict...
Studies in Stagecraft - Clayton Hamilton
Studies in Stagecraft - Clayton Hamilton
- Author: Clayton Hamilton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Performing Arts
A companion piece to Hamilton's earlier work, The Theory of the Theatre. Where that volume dealt with the criticism of dramatic art in general, this volume focuses more specifically on the contemporary drama of the era in which it was written. -...
The Seven Lively Arts - Gilbert Seldes
The Seven Lively Arts - Gilbert Seldes
- Author: Gilbert Seldes
- Genre: Music / Performing Arts
“... But, beside those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a peculiar quality of pleasure which we cannot get elsewhere; and these, too, have their place in general...
