• Gurus: The Story of Acting from Stanislavsky to Succession

  • By: Jeff Zinn
  • Podcast

Gurus: The Story of Acting from Stanislavsky to Succession

By: Jeff Zinn
  • Summary

  • Gurus is an epic tale that includes many names we will recognize and many more we will not. While the stories of individual star actors have been told and retold, their collective story - how acting went from stagey and artificial to the more truthful and authentic approaches of today - has not. The saga begins with Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre, but It also includes important, lesser known figures. In a sprawling saga that includes true believers and apostates, radicals and improvisers, from Stanislavsky to Succession, the Gurus podcast aims to tell the whole story.
    Jeff Zinn
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Episodes
  • A Conversation with Estelle Parsons from Next Chapter Podcasts
    Jan 16 2024

    We're very excited to drop a bonus episode this week from our friends at Next Chapter Podcasts, who have done so much to bring actors, and especially Shakespeare, into the podcast space.

    This episode features a conversation between Michael Goodfriend, Executive Producer of the Play On Podcasts, and the legendary Estelle Parsons of films like "Love, American Style," "Rachel, Rachel," "Bonnie and Clyde," for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and so much more, both on screen and on stage.

    For more of the incredible collections of shows available at Next Chapter Podcasts, be sure to visit their website at ncpodcasts.com

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    46 mins
  • 12 - Moscow Art Theatre - a Hard Birth
    Nov 8 2023

    The tortured early days of the Moscow Art Theatre, a sprawling behemoth that would come to employ hundreds of actors, directors, designers and technical staff, tour continents, survive wars and revolutions, and transform the world of the theatre forever.

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    25 mins
  • 21 - Season Finale - Kahn, Yionoulis, Rosato and Lefevre in Conversation
    Nov 7 2023

    In the Season One finale, we take a look inside one of the top training programs for actors in the country, the Drama Division at Juilliard, created in 1968 by John Houseman and Michel Saint-Denis. It features conversations with Michael Kahn (the first person to take charge of acting at Juilliard), Evan Yionoulis (current Head of the Drama Division), and Mary Lou Rosato (graduate of the legendary Group 1), along with an archived raw and unedited interview from an American Masters series with highly influential mask teacher Pierre Lefevre.

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    34 mins

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