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Bruce Tucker

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Play Time Guide: Creating Puppet Theater at Home

Making a puppet theater can be one of the most fascinating and enjoyable activities for children. Theaters need not be difficult to construct and examples range from a simple curtain to a sturdy and long-lasting wooden creation. Making puppets is an amusing task and the type of puppet dictates the form of the theater. Puppets can be simple, such as…
Bruce Tucker
March 22, 2012
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A Guide to Improvisational Theater

Improvisational theater, or improv, consists of a comedic, poignant, or dramatic stage performance, usually with a wide cast of actors and actresses. These actors and actresses will use spontaneous acting techniques, including audience suggestions to contribute to the performance's content and direction. In other words, the cast erratically formulates the dialogue, setting, and plot without a formal rehearsal. Improvisation performers…
Bruce Tucker
December 29, 2011
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Theater Seats Be Filled! Make Your High School Performance a Success

Students who wish to pursue an acting career can consider the performing arts as an outlet towards that development. Theater presents many opportunities for students to overcome fears and create unbreakable bonds with other like-minded students. While many question if the performing arts should be offered in grade school, some proponents suggest that it aids in building confidence and social…
Bruce Tucker
December 28, 2011
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Enriching The Minds Of Our Youth: The Importance of Theater Education

Given an ailing economy and the ever-increasing cost of entertainment, it can sometimes be difficult to justify to yourself spending money on events rather than groceries. This is especially true when deciding whether or not to bring your family to the movies or to a sporting event, during which there is no guarantee of the quality of entertainment. The movie could be…
Bruce Tucker
October 21, 2011
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The Impact of Theatre Design

The aesthetics (artistic qualities) of a theater are often as important as the production taking place therein. There is something transformative about a proscenium arch built in the 1930s, or even the stark emptiness of the Black Box theater, that can change the entire mindset of an audience before a single note of an overture is played, before a single line…
Bruce Tucker
October 4, 2011
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Theater, Dance and Music: A Guide to Performing Arts

Dating back to 8500 B.C. performing arts have been a popular art form for many cultures. They include a variety of arts such as dance, theater, musical performance, operas and more. Performing arts are based on employing a person’s face, body and presence as the performance medium. This is the opposite of plastic arts, where one uses materials such as…
Bruce Tucker
August 4, 2011
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Your Backstage Pass to Theater Resources

THEATER HISTORY The history of the theater can be traced back to the past 2500 years. The theater’s history is mainly concerned with the start of and the consequential development of the theater as an independent entity. Since the time of classical Athens in the 6th century BCE, many traditions of theater have sprung up in various parts of the…
Bruce Tucker
June 2, 2011
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The Life and Career of Marilyn Monroe

Many people are familiar with the image of Marilyn Monroe the actress—the blonde bombshell who sashayed across the silver screen of old Hollywood, leaving a trail of gawking men behind her. Indeed, for a great number of the movies she starred in, this was the character archetype that she was cast in: the dumb blonde. However, Monroe was much more…
Bruce Tucker
May 15, 2011
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Theater and Technology: Learning About Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling allows a person to convey a story with the help of today's technology. Some of the common elements of a digital story are music, images, narration, and a script. A documentary is one entertaining example of digital storytelling. A documentarian may use photographs, voice overs, and music to tell the story of a famous person or historical event.…
Bruce Tucker
April 25, 2011
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All the World’s a Stage: A Guide to Theater and Performance Studies

Humans have celebrated theater, dance, music and other performance arts for centuries. Despite its prevalence in society, it is curious that performance studies have only gained popularity in the last few decades. Its swift growth has granted performance arts students the opportunity to specialize in the field of their choice. Explore these areas with this guide to the main disciplines…
Bruce Tucker
March 14, 2011