Sam Schacht
Dear friends, A few hours ago Sybil Schacht, Sam Schacht’s wife, called to tell me that Sam died this morning. Sam taught at Adler for fifteen years. He came to …
Category: Tom’s Blog
Jimmy Tripp
From Tom Oppenheim, Artistic Director: Dear community, It is with great sorrow and a heavy heart that I’m writing to inform you that we’ve lost our beloved teacher, friend and …
VIDEO: Words of Hope and Resiliency
Dear friends, Over these past weeks I keep returning to Harold Clurman’s words from his book The Fervent Years. An extraordinary group of actors and artists – including Joanna Gleason, …
Remembering My Mother – Ellen Adler
Dear friends, I wanted to take a moment to thank you all for your generous responses to my mother’s death. I use the word “death” because she would have had …
A New Home at 65 Broadway
A Letter from the Artistic Director Dear Friends, I write with good news and better news! The good news is that after almost twenty years at 31 West 27th Street, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting is moving on. The better news is that …
Election 2016
Dear friends, Since president elect Donald Trump announced his candidacy on June 16, 2015, I’ve been inspired to think a great deal about the human impulse to demonize, to view …
The Healing Project
Since January 2014, the Stella Adler Outreach Division has provided free training and classes to people incarcerated at Rikers Island Correctional Facility. I have seen a number of different projects …
Combining the Art and Biz of Acting
(This article was published as an editorial in Backstage on April 28, 2011) In his Business of Acting column “Turning Pro” (April 7), Jeff B. Cohen puts forth some important …
The Power of Art
Over the past ten years I have devoted myself to bringing free actor-training to inner-city youth. In that decade I have experienced clearly and conclusively, that theater can have an …