Back to the drawing board! “Whenever Stanislavski felt lost,” Isaac Butler writes in his compelling, meticulous new history, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act, “he researched his ...

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The author of a book on the technique derived from the theories of Konstantin Stanislavski breaks down five landmark screen performances — including Olivia Colman's recent Oscar-nominated turn. By ...