Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights

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.

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 America's most revered playwrights, whom she knew, loved, and worked with. Brilliantly edited by Barry Paris, Adler's lectures on the giants of twentieth-century theatre feature her indispensable insights into such classic plays as Long Day's 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 Williams's The Lady of Larkspur Lotion and Arthur Miller's After the Fall. Illuminating, revelatory, inspiring—this is Stella Adler at her electrifying best.