Back to the drawing board! “Whenever Stanislavski felt lost,” Isaac Butler writes in his compelling, meticulous new history, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act, “he researched his ...

The theater has its allure, but one often thinks that Irving Berlin’s “There’s No Business Like Show Business” could profit from the bracing corrective of Noël Coward’s “Don’t Put Your Daughter on the ...