Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Overview

A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, who were strongly influenced by the naturalistic acting of Konstantin Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre.

Details

Cast

Joanne Woodward

Self - Host

Stella Adler

Self

Margaret Barker

Self

Ellen Burstyn

Self

Phoebe Brand

Self

Kate Burton

Self

Morris Carnovsky

Self

Harold Clurman

Self

Cheryl Crawford

Self

John Garfield

Joe Bonaparte (archive footage)

Paul Newman

Self

Sanford Meisner

Self (archive footage)

Lee Strasberg

Self

Sylvia Sidney

Self

Shelley Winters

Self

Michael Gordon

Self

Pia Kazan

Self

Katharine Hepburn

Self

Robert Lewis

Self

Dylan McDermott

Self