Luther
Adler was
born in 1903. His theatre debut began as a 13-year in his father's
Yiddish
Theatre.
His first Broadway play was Humoresque
(1923), Monkey
Talks
(1925), Money
Business
(1926), We
Americans
(1926), The
Music Makers
(1927), Street
Scene
(1929) and Red
Dust
(1929).
Adler joined the Group Theatre in New
York in 1931. Others involved in the group included
Harold Clurman, Cheryl
Crawford, Lee Strasberg Elia
Kazan, Stella Adler, John
Garfield, Paul Green, Howard
Da Silva, Franchot Tone, John
Randolph, Joseph Bromberg, Michael
Gordon, Luther Adler, Will
Geer, Clifford Odets and Lee
J. Cobb.
Members of the group tended to hold left-wing political views and
wanted to produce plays that dealt with important social issues. Adler
appeared in Night Over Taos (1932),
Success Story
(1933), Alien Corn (1933)
and two plays by Clifford Odets: Awake
and Sing! (1935) and Golden Boy
(1937).
In later years Adler directed Angel Street
(1955) and A View from the Bridge
(1960) and appeared in Fiddler on the Roof
(1965) and Waltz of the Toreadors
(1969). Luther Adler died in 1984.
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