Entertainment & Performing Arts

Listen as Adam wrestles with his mid-life crisis, grapples with his existential anxiety and stares resolutely into his naval, all via the medium of sketches, songs, conversations with his funny (and annoyingly successful) friends. And yes, in between, he has conversations with his dog.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Dorit Kemsley comes a candid memoir in which she reveals the unscripted moments that shaped who she is today. Dorit Kemsley has spent years cultivating a persona that exudes elegance, ambition, and confidence. But...

Hosted by Mason Alexander Park (Oh Mary!, The Sandman) alongside special guests Jackie Cox, Laverne Cox, Lea DeLaria, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sasha Velour and Evan Rachel Wood, THE PANSY CRAZE blends the dazzle of a cabaret with the intimacy of a piano bar, honoring the queer icons who paved the way. Join Mason on this six chapter journey through time, as they take us from the stages of Elizabethan England, to the bright lights of Broadway, and all the speakeasies, rock clubs, jazz haunts and television studios in between. These are the juicy stories your history books left out.

Wild at Heart documents the highs and lows and moments of triumph and tragedy Hudson has experienced both on and off our screens. “Throughout what has been a colourful life and exciting career, I’ve often joked at many memorable moments along the way that they would definitely go into ‘the...

Broadcaster Matthew Sweet presents a sequence of radio plays by Samuel Beckett, with star casts including Stephen Rea and Ian McKellen Samuel Beckett captured the pathos and irony of modern life like no other dramatist. In the decade following the success of Waiting for Godot (1952), he wrote...

“Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival.... It isn’t ‘second nature,’ it is ‘first nature.’” —Declan Donnellan This immensely popular and ever-practical book on acting takes a scalpel to the heart of actors’ persistent fears, helping them to release their...

Count Arthur Strong, is a show business legend, raconteur, and lecturer extraordinaire. We follow the one time Variety Star as he uncompromisingly fulfils his daily list of engagements. Always expect the unexpected! In each of the six episodes, we hear a confused and muddled ‘day in the...

Ein Essay über Theater, Moral und die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung der Kunst. Schiller zeigt darin, wie das Theater als Bühne der Menschlichkeit wirken kann: nicht nur zur Unterhaltung, sondern als Ort der sittlichen Bildung, Reflexion und gesellschaftlichen Erneuerung. Mit leidenschaftlicher Rhetorik und philosophischer Tiefe erklärt Schiller, warum die Kunst – insbesondere das Drama – eine zentrale Rolle für das ethische Bewusstsein der Gesellschaft spielt.

A laugh-out-loud memoir for fans of Frank McCourt, Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments, Only Fools and Horses, and Billy Connolly. The Eejit Strikes Back. Over thirty true short stories to make you laugh out loud. Eejits and Donkeys didn’t have room for them all. So here they are… the daftest, wildest, and most unforgettable stories that were left behind. In this sequel memoir, Paddy Sinnott serves up thirty more true tales from a life that refuses to behave. From The World Champion Sprinter, a beautiful and funny memory of his father, to the pure chaos of The Land of Oops, and on to The Reunion…

Part memoir, part manifesto, this is the story of a woman determined to go deep inside a business she was raised to hate, so she could save the world—and herself—through advertising. What could possibly go wrong? As a high-level advertising creative director for 14 years, Lu Chekowsky willed...

"Remembering Roots highlights the indomitability of the human spirit; and reminds us that, like our ancestors, as long as we continue to breathe, there's hope."—LEVAR BURTON, award-winning actor, director, author, and original cast member of Roots Discover how the book and TV miniseries Roots...

In Joke Farming, Kalan explains that it’s easier to write jokes when you have a dependable method for doing so. All jokes, he argues, are built from the same elements: structure, premise, voice, tone, wording, and audience—and these elements can be applied to any comedic genre, from stand-up to sitcoms to satire.

From the single ladies of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift songs to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's irreverent television series Fleabag (2016–2019) to as far back as Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, the stereotype of the damaged single woman has long pervaded music, books, television, and Hollywood movies.

What a treasure I found that my mother had left me. It was a typed, bound book, Heavy Bombardment. My father, Grenville Mott and his co-author, Martin Kern, wrote this play after being stationed in England with the Eighth Air Force during World War II and returning home in 1946. Mott and Kern hoped to sell their play as a screenplay to Hollywood. This historical three act play is a 24 hour eye-witness account in the War Room of a B-24 466th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force, one day in England, during World War II and March 1945.

Adapted from Mary Shelley's masterpiece, THE DEVIL I MADE is a musical audiodrama charting Victor Frankenstein's cautionary journey: from creating new life... to living with the terrible consequences of it. Written by Logan Reynolds, with music by Timothy Brunskill. CAST: Victor...

Thank you for listening to my audiobook, ya’ll. I really hope you enjoyed it. Whoa... My girl just told me that the back cover doesn’t mean people just finished the book. She says it’s where I tell you about the book, so you can start readin’ that sh*t from the front. That sounds backwards to me. But, okay, this is a book about weed. And ice cream. There’s some titties and cliffhangers too. There’s also a guy with a gun, but I obviously don’t die at the end since this is obviously a story about how weed saved my life.

All-American RPG is an action-packed LitRPG Isekai about Sam, a struggling, debt-ridden warehouse worker who dies and reincarnates into the magical, medieval fantasy world of Hallwick. Instead of traditional magic or swordsmanship, Sam awakens with the unique "American" class. Armed with the American Arsenal skill —which allows him to summon modern firearms, heavy artillery, and explosives using his stamina —and powered by reality-bending patriotic buffs like the Pledge of Allegiance, Sam quickly disrupts the local power dynamic.

«Quiero contarles mis vivencias y aventuras en la música, el cine y la televisión, y compartirles el sentimientos de que, en un medio tan difícil y descarnado como lo puede ser el artísitico, se puede llegar pleno, tranquilo y satisfecho a mi edad» César Costa fue pionero del rock and...

Hal Charles discovered radio the way some people discover religion — at night, alone, with the volume low enough that no one else could hear. From a converted radiator shop in Memphis in 1951 to a Cleveland broadcast tower in 2004, The Last DJ follows one man's fifty-year refusal to let the music become just product. He plays what he believes in. Soul, rock, the blues. Tom Petty at midnight. Clarence Clemons on a Tuesday. He talks to the city through its worst nights and its best ones, marries and loses and loves again, watches the industry he gave his life to swallow itself whole.

Shakespeare's most powerful female character, her historical inspiration, and her reinventions in performance through the centuries. She is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than King Lear’s daughters. She is the only Shakespearean character, male or...

Throughout the twentieth century, in theaters, ballrooms, and nightclubs, dancers blazed trails of resistance and revolution. From the exuberant endurance of dance marathons during Prohibition to the militant precision of the Rockettes through WWII and the strait-laced fifties; from the aloof...

Stop performing your life. Start living it. In a world driven by distraction, overstimulation, and artificial intelligence, one truth remains: your presence is your power. The Soul System: Acting From the Inside Out is not just a book about acting—t’s a transformative guide to becoming more human in an increasingly artificial world. Written and narrated by actor, coach, and creator Jay Jones, this audiobook introduces the Soul System, a powerful six-pillar framework designed to reconnect you to your emotional truth, your body, your voice, and your story.

作家・吉本ばななさんが登場！デビュー当時からの編集者との特別な対話をお届け！ 『キッチン』出版直後、まだ喫茶店でアルバイトをしていた吉本ばななさんに、編集者・石原がお話を伺いに行ったのが、ふたりの出会い。

«Come può l'attenzione che si presenta all'arte diventare un atto d'amore, o qualcosa di simile?» È la domanda da cui nasce questa raccolta di saggi, conversazioni e riflessioni di Maggie Nelson sui temi che hanno plasmato il suo percorso intellettuale e umano nell'arco di oltre vent'anni. Come l'amore è una descrizione delle illuminazioni che l'incontro con l'«altro» può donare a ognuno di noi e assieme l'autoritratto di una stagione della vita animata da una caotica e vorace curiosità.

Легенда в области создания историй Роберт Макки и его соавтор Бассим Эль-Вакиль предлагают ключи к созданию блистательных сюжетов в жанре экшен. Они разбирают особенности жанра, рассказывают об основных элементах экшена, о том, как справляться с требованиями сюжета и каких клише необходимо избегать.