Alec Baldwin And Marlo Thomas Co-Chair The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute 50th Anniversary Soiree

Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Nicolson, Paul Newman, Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Montgomery Clift and James Dean all studied at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, where Strasberg’s form of Method Acting was taught. At the Institute’s first benefit, celebrating its 50th Anniversary, at New York University’s Rosenthal Pavilion, Monday night, many of Strasberg’s famous alumni gave testament there was, indeed, a Method to Strasberg’s madness and a madness to his Method. The Institute teachers hold up a mirror, Baldwin said, not only to find out who you are as a person and actor, but to “ask you what you can be,” not just to contemplate the character, but to “see yourself in that role and how (to) get there.”