"I never met a man I didn’t like." H.L. Mencken called him "the most dangerous writer alive." Damon Runyan dubbed him "America’s most complete document." And Franklin D. Roosevelt credited him with bringing his fellow Americans "back to a sense of proportion." He was a ...
"To watch his work is like being witness to the beginning of melody, or the first conscious use of the lever or the wheel; the emergence, coordination, and first eloquence of language; the birth of an art: and to realize that this is all the ...
In the summer of 1931, three young idealists, Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg, were inspired by a passionate dream of transforming the American theater. They recruited 28 actors to form a permanent ensemble dedicated to dramatizing the life of their times. They ...
