Real Life Drama

Wendy Smith. Grove Press, $14.95 (482pp) ISBN 978-0-8021-3300-7

In a prodigiously researched, definitive study that received a boxed review in hardcover and was among PW 's Best Books of 1990, Smith explores how Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg and other members of the Group Theatre revolutionized acting as they sought to make art a force for change. Photos. (May)

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