Back to the drawing board! “Whenever Stanislavski felt lost,” Isaac Butler writes in his compelling, meticulous new history, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act, “he researched his ...

Russian actor and theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski is being celebrated by a Google Doodle on what would have been his 156th birthday. He was one of the leading theatre directors of his ...

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The theater has its allure, but one often thinks that Irving Berlin’s “There’s No Business Like Show Business” could profit from the bracing corrective of Noël Coward’s “Don’t Put Your Daughter on the ...

Hundreds of trained actors—both well-known and under-the-radar—have built their technical foundation on the teachings of Konstantin Stanislavsky and his “System,” as well as Lee Strasberg’s resulting ...

It’s doubtful that Konstantin Stanislavski had knife-throwing prowess in mind when the Russian actor and director first worked out his groundbreaking approach to the business of acting over a century ...

Had there never been a Lee Strasberg, we would have had to invent him. Revered and scorned, the charismatic director, teacher, and sometime actor adapted the techniques of revolutionary Russian master ...