Today the Strasberg legacy continues at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute where his concepts are taught to the serious actor of today. His technique has generated an exciting new legion of actors such as Alec Baldwin, Angelina Jolie, Claire Daines, Scarlett Johansson, Bridget Fonda, Uma Thurman, Rebecca De Mornay, John Leguizamo. The Theatre world today is filled with discussions about acting - the Stanislavski system, the controversy about the Method, the laboratory work of Grotowski, the experiments of the Living Theatre, the theories of Artaud, of Brecht, and many others. Nonetheless, it remains true that for over 2000 years the problem of the actor has been misunderstood and has been superficially divided into an external or internal approach.

Now, through our expanding knowledge of human behavior, The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute is able to train actors to use both their physical and emotional expression in order to do ultimate justice to their own talent and artistic voice.

The move to the new Strasberg.com has taken a lot of work, but I am happy to have a new and improved on-line home for our work. I appreciate the feedback that I have gotten from the actors out there who have read this blog and checked out the new site.

I would like to share a wonderful comment that was posted by a reader and former student.

David,

I greatly admire this new energy in raising the profile of your father’s work. The combination of what he was intelligent enough to preserve and insightful enough to expand has, I think, created a breadth to our understanding of acting that too few seem capable of dealing with all at once.

Often I come across a practitioner who, in his ignorance, has dismissed what he feels Lee was about. Yet he will then go on to complain of an acting problem that is absolutely contained within what Lee would practice!

You must keep it up. There are lessons in his oft-misunderstood practice that are so valuable and universal. Lee himself would ...