Theatre Arts on Acting [Hardcover]

During its fifty year run, Theatre Arts Magazinewas a bustling forum for the foremost names in the performing arts, including Stanislavski, Laurence Olivier, Lee Strasberg, John Gielgud and Shelley Winters. Renowned theatre historian Laurence Senelick has plundered its stunning archives to assemble a stellar collection of articles on every aspect of acting and theatrical life.

Introduction  Acting in the American Tradition  Acting and the New Stagecraft, by Walter Pritchard Eaton  The Place of the Actor in the New Movement, by Claude King  Billets doux, by Stark Young  Paul Muni: a Profile and a Self-Portrait, by Morton Eustis  Margaret Sullavan, by John Van Druten  Comedienne from Radcliffe: Josephine Hull, by William Lindsay Gresham  Laurette Taylor, by Norris Houghton  Seven Interviews in Search of Good Acting Off-Broadway, by Aimee Scheff  That Wonderful Deep Silence, by Shelley Winters  Shakespeare and the American Actor, by John Houseman  Geraldine Page, the Irony of a Legend, by Joseph Carroll  Jason Robards, Jr, by John Keating  George C. Scott, by Jack Balch  Maureen Stapleton, by Gilbert Millstein  Dear Diary, by Hume Cronyn  Julie Harris, by John Keating  The British Legacy  A Crux in English Acting, by Alastair Cooke  Acting in My Time, by St. John Irvine  An Artist's Apprenticeship, by John Gielgud  The Gielgud Macbeth, by Ashley Dukes  John Gielgud, by Alan Dent  The Actor as Biographer: Wilfred Lawson, by Rosamund Gilder  Gertrude Lawrence, by Theodore Strauss  The Oliviers, by Sewell Stokes  Sir Laurence and Larry, by Alan Pryce-Jones  Shaw and the Actor: Rex Harrison and Siobh??n McKenna ol£