Glen Weldon is a host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. He is the co-creator, with Darcy James Argue and Peter Nigrini, of Real Enemies, a multimedia exploration of conspiracy theories in the American psyche, which was named one of the best live events of 2015 by the New York Times and has been adapted into a feature-length film. His work as a director has been seen on stages throughout the United States. For Slate, he created and hosted Lend Me Your Ears, a podcast about Shakespeare and politics, and currently co-hosts Working, a podcast about the creative process. ![]() Butler's writing has appeared in New York magazine, Slate, the Guardian, American Theatre, and other publications. Isaac Butler is the coauthor (with Dan Kois) of The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America, which NPR named one of the best books of 2018. Studded with marquee names from Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, and Elia Kazan, to James Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Dustin Hoffman, The Method is a spirited history of ideas and a must-read for any fan of Broadway or American film. He traces how a cohort of American mavericks-including Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, and the storied Group Theatre-refashioned Stanislavski's ideas for a Depression-plagued nation that had yet to find its place as an artistic powerhouse. Now, critic and theater director Isaac Butler chronicles the history of the Method in a narrative that transports readers from Moscow to New York to Los Angeles, from The Seagull to A Streetcar Named Desire to Raging Bull. How his “system” remade itself into the Method and forever transformed American theater and film is an unlikely saga that has never before been fully told. But how do actors draw from their bodies and minds to turn their selves into art? What is the craft of being an authentic fake? More than a century ago, amid tsarist Russia's crushing repression, one of the most talented actors ever, Konstantin Stanislavski, asked these very questions, reached deep into himself, and emerged with an answer. On stage and screen, we know a great performance when we see it. Given the rising rate of transmissions and breakthrough cases of Covid-19 in Washington, DC, this event has been moved to a virtual setting. ![]() Click here to register for the virtual event!
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