A quick fast forward to 1935 when the Group Theatre is on Broadway with Awake and Sing, while down the block, Michael Chekhov stars in a Russian Language Inspector General. Stella Adler heads backstage to ask Chekhov to teach the Group. A very young Beatrice Straight pitches Chekhov to come to Dartington Hall, a center for education, agriculture and the arts founded by her parents, Lord and Lady Elmhirst, on a sprawling English estate. Guess who wins.

A quick fast forward to 1935 when the Group Theatre is on Broadway with Awake and Sing, while down the block, Michael Chekhov stars in a Russian Language Inspector General. Stella Adler heads backstage to ask Chekhov to teach the Group. A very young Beatrice Straight pitches Chekhov to come to Dartington Hall, a center for education, agriculture and the arts founded by her parents, Lord and Lady Elmhirst, on a sprawling English estate. Guess who wins.

2 - Collision on W. 44th St.

Gurus is an epic tale that includes many names we will recognize and many more we will not. While the stories of individual star actors have been told and retold, their collective story - how acting went from stagey and artificial to the more truthful and authentic approaches of today - has not. The saga begins with Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre, but It also includes important, lesser known figures. In a sprawling saga that includes true believers and apostates, radicals and improvisers, from Stanislavsky to Succession, the Gurus podcast aims to tell the whole story.

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