The Harold Clurman Arts Series

The Harold Clurman Arts Series, formed in an effort to keep students in touch with larger theatrical traditions, brings professional writers, directors, musicians, dancers and actors to the Stella Adler Studio. Guests are interviewed by students, creating an open forum about what it means to be an artist today.

Stella Adler believed that the primary obligation of an artist and craftsperson is to grow. The school, therefore, operates largely on the principle that growth as an actor and growth as a human being are synonymous. These series grew out of an effort to expand the cultural horizons of students, to encourage them as actors to take their place among the greater family of artists, and to grow, through the arts, as human beings.

The following divisions of the Harold Clurman Art Series offer events that are free and open to the public. Please join us!

• The Harold Clurman Concert Series – providing free Jazz and Classical music concerts, supporting the vital musical forms of Jazz and Classical music and providing students and the surrounding community with an essential artistic experience.

• The Harold Clurman Lecture Series – Uniting professional actors, directors, designers, musicians, and dancers with students and the public to create a forum about what it means to be an artist today

• The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series – division of The Harold Clurman Center for the Spoken presenting poetry readings

• The Harold Clurman Laboratory Theatre Company - creating theatre that meets the standards and ideals set out by Stella Adler, Harold Clurman and the Group Theatre, and serving as a launching pad for its students and an artistic home for its faculty to grow and evolve

• The Harold Clurman Center for the Spoken Word - exploring the relationship between the actor and dramatic language and to celebrate dramatic and poetic language and providing free poetry readings

• The Harold Clurman Center for New Work in Movement and Dance Theatre or M.A.D. – creating new works in movement and dance theater and, through the artist in residency program, giving voice to emerging choreographers

• The Jacob Adler Center - devoted to the translation and production of great Yiddish plays