Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee

ISBN: 0679746994

Author: Adler, Stella

Condition: New

Stella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Anthony Quinn, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, and Mark Ruffalo.This long-awaited companion to her book on the master European playwrights brings to life Americas most revered playwrights, whom she knew, loved, and worked with. Brilliantly edited by Barry Paris, Adlers lectures on the giants of twentieth-century theater feature her indispensable insights into such classic plays as Long Days Journey into Night, The Skin of Our Teeth, A Streetcar Named Desire, Come Back, Little Sheba, The Glass Menagerie, and Death of a Salesman, while shedding new light on such lesser known gems as Tennessee Williamss The Lady of Larkspur Lotion and Arthur Millers After the Fall. Illuminating, revelatory, inspiring-this is Stella Adler at her electrifying best.