<p>I would suggest NYU Strasberg over BU. The thing about the “toolbox” approach is that is ends up being highly generalized. </p>
<p>The methods created by master acting teachers (the three main ones being Adler, Strasberg, Meisner) are designed to enhance the actor’s abilities through techniques that were very carefully developed in a specific order. While the different teachers took different approaches, they were all geniuses who revolutionized the acting world. </p>
<p>The “toolbox” approach usually ends up giving the actors a set of tricks and mechanisms that the actor might spend years fiddling with and figuring out how to use. </p>
<p>Even schools like Juilliard subscribe to a method (though it is a method of their own private creation).</p>
<p>It all spans from Constantine Stanislavski’s discoveries in the late 1800’s. He was the one who saw that actors needed a system for preparation, and created the Stanislavski System from which all these methods (and non-classical acting as we know it) come from.</p>
<p>(Also, if your child does not like the Strasberg studio in Tisch, there are many more that can be transferred into - method based or no).</p>