Clurman

[ klur-muhn ]

noun

1. Harold (Edgar), 1901–80, U.S. theatrical director, author, and critic.

Example Sentences

He went in to read for the director, Harold Clurman, a famed figure in New York theater.

From New York Times

Though he was the kindest of that coterie, the teacher and director Harold Clurman thought nothing of getting an actor’s attention by throwing a chair at him.

From New York Times

“They dream, they hope, they try to understand,” the revered theater critic Harold Clurman wrote about the characters in a review of a 1946 production.

From Washington Post

Adler began teaching the Group’s actors, and Harold Clurman, not Strasberg, directed their next play, Clifford Odets’ masterpiece “Awake and Sing!”

From Los Angeles Times

The arrival of Stanislavsky’s teaching in America — where it was preached as the Method by teachers like Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler and practiced by artists like Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando and Kim Stanley — coincided with a renewed commitment to realism in theater and film.

From New York Times