By Jonathan Fried,Alvin Epstein
ISBN-10: 1367957869
ISBN-13: 9781367957862
DRESSING ROOM tales is populated with the various iconic artists Alvin knew and labored with, between them Bert Lahr, Marcel Marceau, Etienne Decroux, Meryl Streep, an aged Gordon Craig and a teenage Barbra Streisand. The publication additionally comprises quite a few photographs from Alvin’s earliest performances. Written with longtime pal and colleague Jonathan Fried, DRESSING ROOM tales brings to print the tales Alvin first advised Jonathan of their dressing room on the American Repertory Theater 23 years ago.
Alvin’s numerous fanatics, colleagues, in addition to theater scholars in every single place, will get pleasure from this long-awaited window into what made Alvin the original American artist he is.
"Actor/writer Jonathan Fried has produced a unbelievable ebook that charts the existence trips and perceptive insights of the nice American actor Alvin Epstein. Now 90, Epstein illuminates the craft of appearing like nobody else. In dialog with Fried, Epstein captures an severe enjoy the craft of appearing mixed with nice mental perception. The event of studying the e-book is either stress-free and profound."
- Anne Bogart
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