"... This is an incisive, witty and inspiring tutorial under the formidable acting teacher, director and famed founder of the Williamstown Theater Festival ... Hackett sets the scene with vivid descriptions of Psacharopoulos’ classes, methods and teaching style as the book follows the actor’s journey from first-year courses to advanced workshops ... Interspersed are anecdotes and commentaries from prominent former students and associates, e.g. Gregory Boyd, Austin Pendleton, Lynn Meadow and Joanne Woodward. Highlights include Psacharopoulos’s outstanding exegeses of works by George Bernard Shaw and Anton Chekhov; his emphasis on process over performance (getting there is all the fun) and his oft-repeated conviction that actor’s are most interesting and alive when their portrayals seem ‘unfinished.’  For upper-division graduates through professionals." - American Library Journal "If it’s an in-depth approach to acting you want, look no farther than Toward Mastery:  An Acting Class with Nikos Psacharopoulos.  Based on a series of classes at Yale an New York University, led by Psacharaopoulos (the late teacher and artistic director of the Williamstown Theater Festival), this volume is essentially a dialogue between the acting teacher and his students, covering the gamut of experience and issues." - American Theater Magazine *Order Toward Mastery through Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com.