Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights

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From one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, whose students include Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, Peter Bogdanovich, Mark Ruffalo-the long-awaited companion volume to her book on the master European playwrights.

In Stella Adler's new book, she brings to life America's most revered plays and playwrights-the giants of the twentieth century, whom she knew, loved, and worked with. Brilliantly edited by Barry Paris, here are her most important lectures on Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee, featuring her indispensable insights into such classic plays as "Long Day's Journey into Night," "Our Town," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "The Glass Menagerie," "Bus Stop," and "Death of a Salesman." Illuminating, revelatory, inspiring-this is Stella Adler at her electrifying best.