Later Years
After Method — or Madness?, Robert Lewis wrote two other books on acting, Advice to the Players (Harper & Row, 1980), an actors handbook, and Slings and Arrows: Theater in My Life (Stein and Day, 1984), a memoir.
Mr. Lewis remained active in theater in the 1980s and continued to teach a new generation of actors and directors through his Robert Lewis Theatre Workshop and at Rice University in 1981-82. He also served as the first Artistic Director at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts outside Washington, DC.
He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1991. In that same year, Kent State University established the annual Robert Lewis Lifetime Achievement medal in his honor.
Mr. Lewis died of heart failure on November 23, 1997 in New York City, at the age of 88.
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