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Newest film by Theatre School's Rob Adler published in Theatre Journal

​The Alchemy of Space, the newest film by Rob Adler, co-head of the Theatre School’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Acting program, has been published in the September 2025 issue of Theatre Journal – one of the leading academic journals in the field. This fifteen-minute video essay blends scholarly and documentary-style storytelling to explore Viola Spolin’s concept of “space substance” and the shared imagination of actors and audiences that makes theater’s invisible worlds visible. Learn more here. ​​​​