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 ...

In a way, the Method has come full circle since Stanislavski first cooked it up at a Moscow cafe. Then, as now, it was a niche and misunderstood theory practiced by a handful of dedicated actors and ...

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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 ...