Cathy Haase Workshops
Method Acting Workshops led by Cathy Haase.
A lifetime member of the prestigious Actors Studio for over 30 years, Haase illuminates the method in workshops for actors, writers, and directors of the performing arts.
30/03/2024
Thinking about having grace and strength in Paris in the rain.
18/09/2023
Sir Ian McKellen with Dame Judi Dench
22/07/2023
"None of us have the promise of tomorrow. God forbid this is my last day on this beautiful earth, it won't be spent listening to some news person telling me how rotten we are, how rotten life is, heck no, I'm going out and seeing how beautiful life is.
As humans, our time on this planet is very limited...
Turn off, tune out, and turn on your life. Peace."
~Frank Zappa
20/07/2023
“You and I don’t know whether our vision is clear in relation to our time or not—No matter what failure or success we may have—we will not know—But we can keep our integrity—according to our own sense of balance with the world and that creates our form—
“What others have called form has nothing to do with our form—I want to create my own and I can’t do anything else—if I stop to think of what others—authorities or the public—or anyone—would say of my form I’d not be able to do anything.
“I can never show what I am working on without being stopped—whether it is liked or disliked I am affected in the same way—sort of paralyzed.” —Georgia O’Keeffe, in a 1923 letter to writer Sherwood Anderson.
Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918
30/04/2023
Walter Lott wanted to do the Bluebird with us in Berlin.
12/03/2023
The illustrious Ellen Burstyn talking about the Actors Studio. So very proud to be a member and to teach at the Actors Studio Drama School MFA Program at Pace.
Ellen Burstyn on her career in Hollywood & the Actors Studio in NYC The Actors Studio has helped hundreds hone their craft.
29/01/2023
I asked for Strawberry shortcake for my birthday. Steve made it for me!
I did not know this so thought I’d share. Our families are amazing!
12/12/2022
Love you Tennessee
"Life is the perpetual destruction of innocence. If we are witness to this, and if we step forward and heal the wounds of this destruction, we become human; we might even become saintly. If we share what we've seen and learned, we may create art. To do nothing is to be utterly evil."-Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom
20/10/2022
NEW STATUE!
Late astrophysicist Margherita Hack has become the first Italian woman scientist to have a statue erected in her honor. It is also the first statue of a woman on public ground in Milan.
on Google Maps
https://goo.gl/maps/4uFik9F2cJxD2PDq9
https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/people/2022/06/15/margherita-hack-gets-first-italian-statue-of-woman-scientist/
31/08/2022
Such an important group. I studied with Phoebe Brand who was a charter memer of the Group Theater.
THE GROUP THEATER - THE SHOULDERS UPON WHICH WE STAND:
"In the summer of 1931, three young idealists, Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg, were inspired by a passionate dream of transforming the American theater. They recruited 28 actors to form a permanent ensemble dedicated to dramatizing the life of their times. They conceived The Group Theatre as a response to what they saw as the old-fashioned light entertainment that dominated the theater of the late 1920’s. Their vision was of a new theater that would mount original American plays to mirror — even change — the life of their troubled times. Over its ten years and twenty productions, they not only met these goals, but altered the course of American theater forever." -
28/08/2022
Thank Bobby Lewis, Cherly Crawford and Elia Kazan for starting the Studio and to Harold Clurman who gave it a beating heart. And of course Lee.
ABOUT OUR NEW YORK HOME
432 West 44th Street, New York, New York
After an initial meeting held on October 5, 1947, at the Labor Stage, located at 106 W. 39th Street (formerly the Princess Theatre), in which goals and ground rules of the new organization were discussed, the Studio officially opened for business the following day at the Union Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 229 West 48th Street.
Before settling in its current location, the Studio moved regularly over an eight-year period. In 1955, it moved to its current location in the former West 44th Street United Presbyterian Church, a Greek Revival structure which was built for the Seventh Associate Presbyterian Church in 1858 or 1859. It was one of the last churches to be built in that style in New York City.
Today, 75 years after that initial meeting, the Actors Studio still thrives, in its home on West 44th St.