Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

An original member of the famed Group Theater, Stella Adler was one of the most influential artists to come out of the American theater. As a Stanislavsky disciple and founder of her own highly esteemed acting conservatory, the extravagant actress was also an eminent acting teacher, training her students—among them Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and Robert DeNiro—in the art of script interpretation.

The classic lectures collected here, delivered over a period of forty years, bring to life t…