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Title
Lee Strasberg papers
Type
Mixed Material
Collection
Subject
Adler, Stella
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Boleslavsky, Richard, 1889-1937
Burstyn, Ellen, 1932-
Clurman, Harold, 1901-1980
Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986
Green, Paul, 1894-1981 Johnny Johnson; the biography of a common man, in three acts. 1937
Hethmon, Robert H. Strasberg at the Actors Studio: tape-recorded sessions. 1965
Kazan, Elia
Lewis, Robert, 1909-1997
Meĭerkholʹd, V. Ė. (Vsevolod Ėmilʹevich), 1874-1940
Meisner, Sanford
Meredith, Burgess, 1907-1997
Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962
Newman, Paul, 1925-2008
Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963
Ouspenskaya, Maria, 1876-1949
Pacino, Al, 1940-
Penn, Arthur, 1922-2010
Saint, Eva Marie, 1924-
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 1863-1938
Stanley, Kim
Strasberg, Paula Miller, 1909-1966
Vakhtangov, Evgeniĭ, 1883-1922
Wallach, Eli, 1915-2014
Winters, Shelley
Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.)
Group Theatre (U.S.)
Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute
Moskovskiĭ khudozhestvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr
Acting (LCSH)
Acting--Study and teaching--New York (State)--New York (LCSH)
Actors (LCSH)
Drama (LCSH)
Dramatists (LCSH)
Method acting (LCSH)
Motion picture acting (LCSH)
Motion picture producers and directors (LCSH)
Motion pictures (LCSH)
Performing arts (LCSH)
Performing arts--United States (LCSH)
Theater (LCSH)
Theater--History (LCSH)
Theater--Production and direction (LCSH)
Theater--Germany (LCSH)
Theater--Japan (LCSH)
Theater--New York (State)--New York (LCSH)
Theater--Russia (LCSH)
Theater--Soviet Union (LCSH)
Theater--United States (LCSH)
Theatrical producers and directors (LCSH)
Soviet Union--Description and travel (LCSH)
Actors.
Acting teachers.
Theatrical directors.
Content
text (txt)
Note
language: Collection material in English, with Russian, German, and Japanese.
Summary
Correspondence, memoranda, lectures, writings, scripts, production files, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers relating to Strasberg's theatrical and film career; Method acting, his system of acting techniques; the Actors Studio, Group Theatre, and Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York, N.Y.; and theater history. Includes files pertaining to Strasberg's work as a stage actor between 1925 and 1931, as a film actor in the 1970s, and as director of Broadway productions, 1938-1951; and to his lectures and seminars at universities, conferences, and other events. Also includes diary notes from Strasberg's trip to the Soviet Union in 1934; drafts of his book, A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method (1987); and files on Strasberg at the Actors Studio: Tape-Recorded Sessions (1965), edited by Robert H. Hethmon
The Group Theatre series includes a daybook; typescripts of lectures; production files; a transcript of rehearsal notes for Paul Green's play, Johnny Johnson (1937); material pertaining to the work and techniques of Konstantin Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre (Moskovskiĭ khudozhestvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr); copies of the Group Theatre publication, The Flying Grouse (1936); and other papers reflecting efforts to create a modern theater movement in America and change the acting process
The Theatre and Film Collection, a compilation of items pertaining to the theater and performing arts in the United States and around the world dating from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, is primarily devoted to Russian theater as well as to German and Japanese theater
Actors, directors, and playwrights represented include Stella Adler, James Baldwin, Richard Boleslavsky, Ellen Burstyn, Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, V.Ė. Meĭerkholʹd, Sanford Meisner, Burgess Meredith, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, Clifford Odets, Maria Ouspenskaya, Al Pacino, Arthur Penn, Eva Marie Saint, Kim Stanley, Paula Miller Strasberg, Evgenĩĩ Vakhtangov, Eli Wallach, and Shelley Winters
Origin Date(s)
1780-2006
(bulk 1924-1983)
Authorized Access Point
Strasberg, Lee Lee Strasberg papers
Collection Arrangement
Collection Organization: Arranged in eleven series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1930-1996; Series 2: Independent Projects, 1925-2006; Series 3: Group Theatre, 1931-2006; Series 4: Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, 1969-2004; Series 5: Speeches and Writings, 1924-2002; Series 6: Personal Miscellany, 1921-2006; Series 7: Theater and Film Collection, 1780-2003; Series 8: Actors Studio Records, 1947-2001; Series 9: Restricted, 1968-1997; Series 10: Closed, 1948-1965; and Series 11 Oversize, 1883-circa 1990.