"All around me the painters and composers groped for ways to express contemporary society in their work. Where, I wondered, was this parallel activity in theater?" Harold Clurman has been called the most influential figure in the history of the American theater. Between 1935 and ...
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
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 ...
