Actor's Workshop
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The Actor's Workshop was a theater company founded in San Francisco in the 1950s. It is considered by many to have been a seminal part of the modern theater movement in America. Its co-founders, Herbert Blau
and Jules Irving, were professors at San Francisco State College. Their work rose to prominence on the American scene to such an extent that in 1965 the two were invited to initiate the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre
, which had just finished construction at New York's Lincoln Center. Without their leadership, the Actor's Workshop was not able to sustain its quality, and closed soon thereafter.
Herbert Blau
A director and theoretician of performance, Herbert Blau is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington...
and Jules Irving, were professors at San Francisco State College. Their work rose to prominence on the American scene to such an extent that in 1965 the two were invited to initiate the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
The Vivian Beaumont Theater is a theatre located in the Lincoln Center complex at 150 West 65th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The structure was designed by Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen, and Jo Mielziner was responsible for the design of the stage and interior.The Vivian...
, which had just finished construction at New York's Lincoln Center. Without their leadership, the Actor's Workshop was not able to sustain its quality, and closed soon thereafter.