Internationally celebrated Actor-Goodwill Cultural Ambassador RONALD RAND will star in his inspiring one-man show, “LET IT BE ART!” at the Ritz Theatre’s Ritz Studio Saturday, February 29 at 7:30PM. The performance has received standing ovations in 25 countries, three Off-Broadway productions, 5 tours across India, across 20 states at over a hundred theaters, art centers, colleges, universities, and represented the United States at the 2018 World Theatre Olympics.
An unforgettable evening of down-to-earth humor, joyful story-telling and passion for life and the theater! Ronald Rand brings to life the dynamic Harold Clurman. President Jimmy Carter wrote in 1980: “Harold Clurman was known as a True Man of the Theater.” Harold Clurman founded The Group Theatre and shared it with millions of Americans. He brought to America a world of new knowledge. I am pleased in honoring the director, critic, teacher, spirit of the American Theatre.” During the play, audiences travel to New York City, Paris and Moscow, meeting many vibrant personalities including Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, Aaron Copland, Marlon Brando, Clifford Odets, Stanislavsky – even Katharine Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Ronald Rand is an acclaimed stage and film/TV actor, performing across America at regional theaters, as Captain Keller in The Miracle Worker, Off-Broadway in several plays including Julius Caesar with Richard Dreyfuss, in over 200 films & television shows opposite Angelica Huston, Tom Cruise, Joe Pesci, Sean Connery, Yoko Ono and Christopher Plummer in A Marriage: Stieglitz and O’Keefe, Quiz Show with Ralph Fiennes directed by Robert Redford, In and Outwith Kevin Kline, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Another World, Law & Order and several seasons on Saturday Night Live. Founder/Publisher of “The Soul of the American Actor” Newspaper, best-selling Author of “CREATE!” and “Acting Teachers of America,” internationally-renowned Director, and Librettist of the new opera, “IBSEN” about the last days of the Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen.
Wheelchair & ADA accessible seating is available. Call 256-383-0533 to reserve seating.