Everything About Theatre! The Guidebook of Theatre Fundamentals
By Robert L. Lee

Eighteen chapters arranged to hold student interest, by a high school drama teacher.

1. Learning your way around, 2. Intro to Acting, 3. Ancient Theatre, 4. Improvisation, 5. Basic stagecraft, 6. Your vocal instrument, 7. Reading and playwrighting, 8. Meeting the monologue, 9. Medievel and Renaissance Theatre, 10. Stage lighting, 11. Scenes for two actors, 12. Elizabethan and French Neoclassic Theatre, 13. Makeup, 14. Directing, 15. Scene design and painting, 16. Romanticism and Realism, 17. Props, costumes, and sound, 18. Getting to work!

Theatre Games for Young Performers Improvisations and Exercises for Developing Acting Skills
By Maria C. Novelly

Anyone reading this book will be stimulated and inspired! Gives the teacher imagination-expanding exercises in pantomime, voice, and improvisational acting that are easily adaptable to any subject or theme. You get enough specific drama activities to fill a semester-long drama course, a summer of recreational dramatics, or a year of once-a-week training sessions.

Childsplay A collection of scenes and monologues for children 7 to 13
Edited By Kerry Muir

Kerry Muir has taught young people at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and she knows from experience what children love. Scenes and monologues come from such plays as The Diary of Anne Frank, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Curse of the Starving Class, The Secret Garden, Gas Food Lodging, Men Don't Leave, and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and also from writings by children themselves.

Winning Monologs for Young Actors 65 honest-to-life characterizations to delight young actors and audiences of all ages
By Peg Kehret

Part One: Monologs for Girls: They'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead, Beauty for Sale, Wedding Woes, Three-Kleenex Movies, First Date, Listening to the Grown-up Ladies Talk, and more.

Part Two: Monologs for Boys: Little Red The Hood, Day of Liberation, Little League Dreamer, Love Letter to Suzy, I'm Not My Brother, I'm Me, She Hit Me First, and more.

Part Three: Monologs for Boys and Girls: Help! Send Candy Bars!, Applying for a Job, The Worm Farm, All Mothers Are Clairvoyant, My Mother Collects China Cows, and more.

Plays of America from American Folklore for children Grades K-6.
By L.E. McCullough

"The fifteen plays in this book are drawn from the seemingly bottomless, ever evolving font of American folklore. They range from ancient Native American creation myths to European, African, and Asian folktales recast in New World settings to popular retellings of actual incidents in United States history. Put them all in a pot, stir with a generous portion of salt and spice and you've got a succint, savory sample of America's fold heritage ready for instant staging!"

--from the Foreword.

Multicultural Plays for Children Volume 1: Grades K-3
By Pamela Gerke

"I began to write and direct children's plays several years ago when I was directing an after-school program at an elementary school. At the time it seemed to be one of the most fun things we could do--and it was! I then created a children's play production company, Kids Action Theatre, where I've written, directed, and produced all of the plays in this book...By working with children, I learn about myself."

--Pamela Gerke

Improvisation for the Theatre
By Viola Spolin

"Don't tell me -- show me." Spolin's book was written to help acting students (and their teachers) do just that. Her tool: improvisational games, to get actors to think on and with their feet. (One of her exercises is "Feet and Legs Alone," in which the actor has to illustrate who he is, what he is doing, and how he is feeling with just his feet and legs.)

Improvisation may not directly help in developing character; the games are better suited for acting classes rather than for rehearsal. Also, some of the material (such as the chapter on workshop procedures) is more relevant for teachers rather than students. But the most useful part of the book -- the exercises themselves -- will aid actors in learning how to show, not tell.