Stella Adler Studio playing in FiDi
BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELLDOMENECH
The Stella Adler Studio of Acting
is moving from its longtime
home at 31 W. 27th St. near
Madison Square Park to a larger space
at 65 Broadway near the New York
Stock Exchange.
The new space in the Financial District
is two full fl oors in the American
Express building and is about 30,000
square feet, a 10,000 foot increase in
size from their previous location. The
new facility will host fi ve black-box
theaters, nine rehearsal studios, roomy
waiting areas, dressing rooms and
more.
“Sixty-fi ve Broadway will mark a
new chapter for the Stella Adler Studio
of Acting,” said Tom Oppenheim,
grandson of Stella Adler and the studio’s
artistic director.
“Our transition into a new and larger
home will expand the programming
possibilities for the conservatory and
for our public-facing programs, like the
Arts Series and the Outreach Division,
which are central to our mission,” he
added.
The world-renowned studio has been
teaching technique to generations of
acting greats, including Marlon Brando,
Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel,
for 70 years in multiple locations
throughout Manhattan. As the studio
A class session at Rikers Island provided by the the Stella Adler Studio of Acting’s Outreach Division.
has grown, so has its programing.
Besides training 500 actors annually,
the studio also provides lectures,
poetry readings, classical music and
dance performance events. It boasts a
Playwrights Division and an Outreach
Division, the latter which provides arts
programs to incarcerated individuals at
Rikers Island.
With the move, the studio is celebrating
— with a rebranding — its 30-year
transformation from an acting conservatory
COURTESY STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING
to a cultural center. Once up
and running again in early September,
the Stella Adler Studio of Acting will
become the Stella Adler Center for the
Arts and boast a broader cultural and
social-justice focus.
Port Authority renovation outreach rolling
BY GABE HERMAN
A September date has been announced
for the public meeting
in Manhattan that will
take community feedback about the
Port Authority’s ideas for upcoming
renovations.
The meeting will be on Thurs., Sept.
5, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. There will be
a presentation at 4:30 p.m. and it will
be repeated at 6 p.m. The meeting will
be at the Westin Hotel Times Square,
at 270 W. 43rd St., between Seventh
and Eighth Aves.
In May, the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey released a scoping
document outlining three possible
replacement plans for its current Midtown
Manhattan bus terminal. The options
include rebuilding on the current
site, which is bounded by Eighth and
Ninth Aves. and W. 40th and 42nd Sts.;
using part of the nearby Jacob Javits
Center as a bus terminal; or using the
Javits Center while also renovating part
of the current site.
Cost estimates for a new Port Authority
terminal have been as high as
$10 billion. The Port Authority expects
the project to be fi nished by 2030.
The scoping document was released
May 23, kicking off an environmental
review process and 120-day period for
public comments. The process included
planned public hearings in July and
September, in both New York and New
Jersey.
For those unable to attend the Sept.
5 meeting, comments can be submitted
at ReplacePABTcomment@panynj.gov.
The deadline for public comments is
Wed., Sept. 18.
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The Port Authority Bus Terminal, at Eighth Ave. and 42nd St.
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