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word theater comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.
It is the place people come to see the truth about life and
the social situation.
-Stella Adler
(Strongly suggested readings for beginners are marked )
Acting the First Six Lessons, Richard Boleslavsky
TRUTH,
Susan Batson
The Art of Acting, Stella Adler
The New Generation of Acting Teachers, Eva Mekler
The Mystic in the Theatre- Eleonora Duse, Eva Le Gallienne
Duse, William Weaver (and any book about Eleanora Duse)
A Dream of Passion, Lee Strasberg
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
Acting with Adler, Joanna Rotté
Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov, Barry Paris
The Great Acting Teachers and their Methods, Richard Brestoff
The Actor's Studio A Players Place, David Garfield
A Method to Their Madness The History of the Actor's Studio,
Foster Hirsch
The Empty Space, Peter Brook
The Open Door, Peter Brook
Threads of Time, Peter Brook
Respect for Acting, Uta Hagen (and anything else by her)
The Actor's Eye, Morris Carnovsky/Peter Sander
My Life In Art, Stanislavsky
Strasberg's Method, Laurie Hull
The Way of The Actor, Brian Bates
Accidentally on Purpose!, John Strasberg
Bittersweet, Susan Strasberg
Marilyn and Me, Susan Strasberg
Shelley (also known as Shirley), Shelley Winters parts 1 and
2
Method Actors, Steve Vineberg
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (and anything by or about Walt
Whitman)
Letter to A Young Poet, Rilke
Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul, Claire Dunne
In The Dark Places of Wisdom, Peter Kingsley
Reality, Peter Kingsley
The Book, Alan W. Watts
Talking with Angels, Gitta Mallasz
The Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister, Goethe
The Eighth Day, Thornton Wilder
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélene Cixous
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization,
Chellis
Glendinning
If You Want to Write-Brenda Ueland
The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller (and any book
by Alice Miller)
Peter Brook and Traditional Thought, Basarab Nicolescu
Manifesto
of Transdisciplinarity, Basarab Nicolescu
Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
Sean
Penn's letter to George W. Bush Watch
here
Intent
to Live, Larry Moss
The
New York Times- theater section
Acting is a Job by Jason Pugatch (for questions about the business of acting)
(If you want to understand actors, artists,
poets and acting see some of these films.)
Pleasantville with Toby Maguire and Reese Witherspoon
Broadway:
The Golden Age by Rick McKay
Hearts of Darkness, Eleanor Coppola (a documentary)
The Burning Times, Donna Reed (on women & spirituality)
I'll Do Anything (with Nick Nolte)
Vanya on 42nd St., Louis Malle, with Julianne Moore
Stella
Adler: Awake and Dream(a documentary on her teaching)
Joseph Campbell interview with Bill Moyers
Looking for Richard, Al PacinoPacino- An Actor's Vision collection
Stanislavsky Century (available from the library) a 3 part
video
Esther
Kahn, starring Summer Phoenix
Mephisto, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer
The Hours
The Pianist, Roman Polansky
What
the Bleep do we Know
Frances (with Jessica Lange)
Beyond the Sea- Kevin Spacey
Searching for Debra Winger- Rosanna Arquette
Lenny- The story of Lenny Bruce, dir. Bob Fosse
The Best of Youth (Italian)
In America
Being Julia
Dogville, Lars VonTrier, starring Nicole Kidman
The Lives of Others
Mulholland Drive
Into the Wild
The Gods Must be Crazy
Unscripted- HBO tv series about actors in L.A.
Listen to Susan Batson interview on radio WBUR.org
Lenny
Bruce at Carnegie Hall (Listen now on iTunes!)
Salon.com
interviews
Please watch these if you plan to study with
Shelley Mitchell
Marilyn
Monroe - Lee Strasberg
Marlon
Brando on Marlon Brando
Sean
Penn on Marlon Brando and the art of acting
Al
Pacino on Inside the Actors Studio
Angelina Jolie on Inside the Actors Studio
Method
Acting- "Red Method Acting"
Dennis
Hopper on Method Acting
James
Dean- Interview
James
Dean - in "I'm a Fool"
Marlon
Brando on Larry King Live
Sean
Penn speaks out against the war in Iraq
Sandy
Meisner - What we learn in acting class
Truth
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