John Strasberg News

'... The theater is so endlessly fascinating,' playwright Arthur Miller said in 1984, 'because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.' For internationally recognized director, actor, and teacher John Strasberg, the search for happy theatrical accidents that he believes define all creative processes has been a lifelong quest. Now the 67-year old scion of the Strasberg family has founded his own company, appropriately named the Accidental Repertory Theater. 'Our goal is to produce work that is spontaneous and real, every performance different, and that will entertain, move, and enlighten,' Strasberg said recently. 'The productions are beautiful and essential, the production values defining the elements of life that are absolutely necessary to create, and illuminate, the human beings who populate the play, and the world they live in.'

Afternoon Screenings will feature excerpts by master teachers of the 20th century: Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, Bobby Lewis, and Anne Bogart, introduced by Lee Grant, Ellen Adler.

New Rep On Tour will close its eighth season with a three-player adaptation of Edmund Rostand's Masterpiece, Cyrano. Over five weeks, beginning March 4, 2008, the Tour will travel to over 20 Boston area schools and reach over 7,000 students.

Lynn Redgrave and Geraint Wyn Davies will star in an October 10th benefit reading of Austin Pendleton's Shakespeare adaptation H6R3

The Mirror Repertory Co. will premiere Leon Pownall's DO NOT GO GENTLE, a play about the famed and troubled poet Dylan Thomas with Geraint Wyn Davies in the starring role, on Monday, April 25th 2005 at the Arclight Theatre (152 west 71st St.) Previews begin April 22nd.