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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Robert_Brustein_is_the_first_of_the_honorees_to_enter_the_East_Room._%285492100421%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Robert_Brustein_is_the_first_of_the_honorees_to_enter_the_East_Room._%285492100421%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Robert_Brustein_is_the_first_of_the_honorees_to_enter_the_East_Room._%285492100421%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Robert_Brustein_is_the_first_of_the_honorees_to_enter_the_East_Room._%285492100421%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1486" data-file-height="1983" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Brustein in 2011</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Robert Sanford Brustein<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1927-04-21</span>)</span>April 21, 1927<br /><a href="/wiki/New_York_City,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="New York City, New York">New York City, New York</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">October 29, 2023<span style="display:none">(2023-10-29)</span> (aged 96)<br /><a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Theatre critic, producer, playwright, educator</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Amherst_College" title="Amherst College">Amherst College</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">MA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Norma Ofstrock</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(died 1979)<wbr /></div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Doreen Beinart</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1996)<wbr /></div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">2 stepsons, including <a href="/wiki/Peter_Beinart" title="Peter Beinart">Peter Beinart</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Robert Sanford Brustein</b> (April 21, 1927 – October 29, 2023) was an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator. He founded the <a href="/wiki/Yale_Repertory_Theatre" title="Yale Repertory Theatre">Yale Repertory Theatre</a> while serving as dean of the <a href="/wiki/Yale_School_of_Drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Yale School of Drama">Yale School of Drama</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_Haven" class="mw-redirect" title="New Haven">New Haven</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, as well as the <a href="/wiki/American_Repertory_Theater" title="American Repertory Theater">American Repertory Theater</a> and <a href="/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Theater_Training" title="Institute for Advanced Theater Training">Institute for Advanced Theater Training</a> at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>, where he was a creative consultant until his death, and was the theatre critic for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a></i>. He commented on politics for the <i><a href="/wiki/HuffPost" title="HuffPost">HuffPost</a></i>. </p><p>Brustein was a senior research fellow at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> and a distinguished scholar in residence at <a href="/wiki/Suffolk_University" title="Suffolk University">Suffolk University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was elected to the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters">American Academy of Arts and Letters</a> in 1999,<sup id="cite_ref-Current_Academicians_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Current_Academicians-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 2002, was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/American_Theater_Hall_of_Fame" title="American Theater Hall of Fame">American Theater Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ATHOF_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ATHOF-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2003, he served as a senior fellow with the National Arts Journalism Program<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>, and in 2004/2005, was a senior fellow at the <a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts" title="National Endowment for the Arts">National Endowment for the Arts</a> Arts Journalism Institute in Theatre and Musical Theatre<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California">University of Southern California</a>. In 2010, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/National_Medal_of_Arts" title="National Medal of Arts">National Medal of Arts</a> by President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Brustein&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Robert Sanford Brustein was born in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, New York, on April 21, 1927, to Blanche Haft Brustein and Max Brustein.<sup id="cite_ref-Weber_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weber-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He grew up on the <a href="/wiki/Upper_West_Side" title="Upper West Side">Upper West Side</a> of Manhattan, residing in the same apartment building as <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff" title="Sergei Rachmaninoff">Sergei Rachmaninoff</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Weber_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weber-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In elementary and high school, his dream was "to be <a href="/wiki/Artie_Shaw" title="Artie Shaw">Artie Shaw</a>'s successor as a <a href="/wiki/Swing_band" class="mw-redirect" title="Swing band">swing band</a> leader."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was educated at <a href="/wiki/The_High_School_of_Music_%26_Art" class="mw-redirect" title="The High School of Music & Art">The High School of Music & Art</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Amherst_College" title="Amherst College">Amherst College</a>, where he received a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a> in 1948<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (briefly studying in the medieval history graduate program), the <a href="/wiki/Yale_School_of_Drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Yale School of Drama">Yale School of Drama</a> for a year studying dramatic literature and criticism, and <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>, where he received an <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">MA</a> in 1950, and a PhD in 1957, in dramatic literature and cultural criticism, supervised by <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Trilling" title="Lionel Trilling">Lionel Trilling</a>. His dissertation was on the playwright <a href="/wiki/John_Marston_(playwright)" title="John Marston (playwright)">John Marston</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During a break from university, he served in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Merchant_Marine" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Merchant Marine">Merchant Marine</a> on <a href="/wiki/Tanker_(ship)" title="Tanker (ship)">tankers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Victory_ship" title="Victory ship">Victory ships</a>, and later at <a href="/wiki/Kings_Point_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings Point Academy">Kings Point Academy</a> on <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a>. He also held a <a href="/wiki/Fulbright_Fellowship" class="mw-redirect" title="Fulbright Fellowship">Fulbright Fellowship</a> to study in the United Kingdom from 1953 to 1955, where he directed plays at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Nottingham" title="University of Nottingham">University of Nottingham</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Nottingham_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nottingham-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After teaching at <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vassar_College" title="Vassar College">Vassar College</a>, and Columbia, where he became a full professor of dramatic literature in the English department, he became Dean of the <a href="/wiki/Yale_School_of_Drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Yale School of Drama">Yale School of Drama</a> in 1966, and served in that position until 1979. It was during this period, in 1966, that he founded the <a href="/wiki/Yale_Repertory_Theatre" title="Yale Repertory Theatre">Yale Repertory Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1979, Brustein left Yale for <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>, where he founded the <a href="/wiki/American_Repertory_Theater" title="American Repertory Theater">American Repertory Theater</a> (ART) and became a professor of English. At Harvard, he founded the <a href="/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Theater_Training" title="Institute for Advanced Theater Training">Institute for Advanced Theater Training</a>. He retired from the artistic directorship of ART in 2002, and then served on the faculty of the institute. He was a distinguished scholar in residence from 2007, at <a href="/wiki/Suffolk_University" title="Suffolk University">Suffolk University</a>, where he taught courses in <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a> Analysis.<sup id="cite_ref-suffolk_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-suffolk-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the artistic director of Yale Rep from 1966 to 1979, and of ART from 1980 to 2002, Brustein supervised over 200 productions, acting in eight and directing twelve.<sup id="cite_ref-suffolk_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-suffolk-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Brustein&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brustein was married to actress Norma Ofstrock until her death in 1979. (Brustein was the stepfather to Norma Ofstrock's son from a previous marriage, Phil Cates). That marriage resulted in son Daniel Brustein.<sup id="cite_ref-Weber_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weber-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1996, he married activist and academic Doreen Beinart; through this marriage, he became the stepfather of journalist <a href="/wiki/Peter_Beinart" title="Peter Beinart">Peter Beinart</a> and of Jean Stern.<sup id="cite_ref-Weber_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weber-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Brustein died at his home in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>, on October 29, 2023, at the age of 96.<sup id="cite_ref-Weber_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weber-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_writing">Critical writing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Brustein&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Critical writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brustein was the theatre critic for <i>The New Republic</i> from 1959 to "about 2000",<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later contributed to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Huffington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="The Huffington Post">The Huffington Post</a></i>. He authored sixteen books on theatre and society: </p> <ul><li>1964: <i>The Theatre of Revolt: An Approach to Modern Drama</i> (Little, Brown) <small><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-929587-53-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-929587-53-7">0-929587-53-7</a></small> – essays on <a href="/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen" title="Henrik Ibsen">Ibsen</a>, <a href="/wiki/August_Strindberg" title="August Strindberg">Strindberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anton_Chekhov" title="Anton Chekhov">Chekhov</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">Shaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht" title="Bertolt Brecht">Brecht</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luigi_Pirandello" title="Luigi Pirandello">Pirandello</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill" title="Eugene O'Neill">O'Neill</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Antonin_Artaud" title="Antonin Artaud">Artaud</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jean_Genet" title="Jean Genet">Genet</a>, considered a "standard critical text on modern drama"<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1965: <i>Seasons of Discontent: Dramatic Opinions 1959–1965</i> (Simon and Schuster) <small>ISBN none</small> – "an assemblage of his best magazine pieces from 1959 to [1965]"<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1969: <i>The Third Theatre</i> (Knopf) <small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-20537-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-20537-4">0-671-20537-4</a></small> – "a collection of pieces written between 1957 and 1968 ... that deal not only with theatre but also with literature, culture, and the movies" (from the Preface).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1971: <i>Revolution as Theatre: Notes on the New Radical Style</i> (Liveright) <small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87140-238-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-87140-238-6">0-87140-238-6</a></small> – examines campus turmoil, radicalism versus liberalism, the fate of the free university, the new revolutionary life style, the decadence of American society, and the sentimentality and false emotionalism of radical alternatives<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1975: <i>The Culture Watch: Essays on Theatre and Society, 1969–1974 </i> (Knopf) <small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-394-49814-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-394-49814-3">0-394-49814-3</a></small> – "As far as these bristling exhortations go, well, you have to wish the gadfly well"<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1980: <i>Critical Moments: Reflection on Theatre & Society, 1973–1979</i> (Random House) <small>ISBN 0394510933</small> – "Can the Show Go On?", "The Future of the Endowments", "The Artist and the Citizen" and other essays on the state of American theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1981: <i>Making Scenes: A Personal History of the Turbulent Years at Yale, 1966–1979</i> (Random House) <small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-394-51094-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-394-51094-1">0-394-51094-1</a></small> – Brustein looks at his time at Yale as part "of a larger social and cultural pattern"<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1987: <i>Who Needs Theatre: Dramatic Opinions</i> (Atlantic Monthly) <small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-571-15194-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-571-15194-9">0-571-15194-9</a></small> – a collection of reviews and essays including "an assessment of hits like 'Cats' and '42nd Street', Polish theatre, drama on apartheid and the Broadway vogue for British imports."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1991: <i>Reimagining American Theatre</i> (Hill & Wang) <small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8090-8058-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8090-8058-3">0-8090-8058-3</a></small> – reviews and essays, mostly from <i>The New Republic</i> considering the state of American theater in the 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1994: <i>Dumbocracy in America: Studies in the Theatre of Guilt, 1987–1994</i> (Ivan R. Dee) <small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-56663-098-3" title="Special:BookSources/1-56663-098-3">1-56663-098-3</a></small> – "uses the prism of the American theatre to explore the motivating impulses behind rampant political correctness and to assess government efforts to regulate the arts"<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1998: <i>Cultural Calisthenics: Writings on Race, Politics, and Theatre</i> (Ivan R. Dee) <small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-56663-266-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-56663-266-8">1-56663-266-8</a></small> – "Many of these essays ... are concerned with how "extra-artistic considerations'" – multiculturalism, gay rights, women's issues and political correctness – impair current thought, including that of arts funding agencies."<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2001: <i>The Siege of the Arts: Collected Writings, 1994–2001</i> (Ivan R. Dee) <small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-56663-380-X" title="Special:BookSources/1-56663-380-X">1-56663-380-X</a></small> – "The opening essays lead the charge against The Three Horsemen of the Anti-Culture: political, moral, and middlebrow aesthetic correctness ... allied with corporate capitalism and a rigid multiculturalism"<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2005: <i>Letters to a Young Actor: A Universal Guide to Performance</i> (Basic Books) <small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-465-00806-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-465-00806-2">0-465-00806-2</a></small> – "A guidebook for performers on stage and screen [which] aims to inspire struggling dramatists and also reinvigorate the very state of the art of acting itself."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2006: <i>Millennial Stages: Essays and Reviews 2001–2005</i> (Yale Univ. Press) <small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-11577-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-11577-6">0-300-11577-6</a></small> – "examines crucial issues relating to theater in the post-9/11 years, analyzing specific plays, emerging and established performers, and theatrical production throughout the world"<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2009: <i>The Tainted Muse: Prejudices and Preconceptions in Shakespeare's Works and Times</i> "an untainted lens through which to see Shakespeare as never before"</li> <li>2011: <i>Rants and Raves: Opinions, Tributes, and Elegies</i></li> <li>2014: <i>Winter Passages: Essays and Criticism</i></li></ul> <p>Brustein was the writer and narrator of a <a href="/wiki/WNET" title="WNET">WNET</a> television series in 1966 called <i>The Opposition Theatre</i>. He also commented on contemporary social and political issues for the <i><a href="/wiki/Huffington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Huffington Post">Huffington Post</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conflict_with_August_Wilson">Conflict with August Wilson</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Brustein&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Conflict with August Wilson"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1996 and 1997, Brustein was involved in an extended public debate – through their essays, speeches and personal appearances – with African-American playwright <a href="/wiki/August_Wilson" title="August Wilson">August Wilson</a> about <a href="/wiki/Multiculturalism" title="Multiculturalism">multiculturalism</a>, color-blind casting, and other issues where <a href="/wiki/Race_(classification_of_human_beings)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (classification of human beings)">race</a> impacts on the craft and practice of theatre in America.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "The feud," wrote Bruce Weber in the <i>New York Times</i>, "... reached a climax in 1997 with an extraordinary public debate in front of a sold-out house at Town Hall in Midtown Manhattan."<sup id="cite_ref-Weber_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weber-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_conflicts">Other conflicts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Brustein&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Other conflicts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brustein criticized the not-for-profit theaters for developing commercial work and becoming tryout houses for Broadway.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His fellow directors of regional theaters felt betrayed. A series of articles and letters followed in the <i>New York Times</i> and elsewhere.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Critics from the Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix attacked Brustein for his dual roles as producer/director and theater critic, calling it a conflict of interest. The critic <a href="/wiki/Davi_Napoleon" title="Davi Napoleon">Davi Napoleon</a> wrote an essay that included quotations from other critics who said that Brustein's dual roles made him uniquely qualified to review theater with insight and intelligence. Napoleon pointed out that while Brustein sometimes reviewed colleagues and former students, he did not always review them favorably.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Playwright">Playwright</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Brustein&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Playwright"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a playwright, Brustein both authored plays and <a href="/wiki/Theatrical_adaptation" title="Theatrical adaptation">adapted</a> the material of other authors. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Brustein&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During his tenure at ART, Brustein wrote eleven adaptations, including <a href="/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen" title="Henrik Ibsen">Henrik Ibsen</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wild_Duck" title="The Wild Duck">The Wild Duck</a>,</i><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Master_Builder" title="The Master Builder">The Master Builder</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/When_We_Dead_Awaken" title="When We Dead Awaken">When We Dead Awaken</a></i>, the last directed by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Wilson_(director)" title="Robert Wilson (director)">Robert Wilson</a>; <i>Three Farces and a Funeral</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> adapted from the works and life of <a href="/wiki/Anton_Chekhov" title="Anton Chekhov">Anton Chekhov</a>; <a href="/wiki/Luigi_Pirandello" title="Luigi Pirandello">Luigi Pirandello</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Enrico_IV" class="mw-redirect" title="Enrico IV">Enrico IV</a></i>;<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Brustein's final production at ART, <i><a href="/wiki/Lysistrata" title="Lysistrata">Lysistrata</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by <a href="/wiki/Aristophanes" title="Aristophanes">Aristophanes</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Andrei_Serban" title="Andrei Serban">Andrei Serban</a>. </p><p>Adaptations which he also directed while at ART include a Pirandello trilogy: <i><a href="/wiki/Six_Characters_in_Search_of_an_Author" title="Six Characters in Search of an Author">Six Characters in Search of an Author</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which won the Boston Theatre Award for Best Production of 1996, <i><a href="/wiki/Cos%C3%AC_%C3%A8_(se_vi_pare)" class="mw-redirect" title="Così è (se vi pare)">Right You Are (If You Think You Are)</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Tonight_We_Improvise" title="Tonight We Improvise">Tonight We Improvise</a></i>; Ibsen's <a href="/wiki/Ghosts_(play)" title="Ghosts (play)">Ghosts</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chekhov's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cherry_Orchard" title="The Cherry Orchard">The Cherry Orchard</a></i>, Strindberg's <a href="/wiki/The_Father_(Strindberg)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Father (Strindberg)">The Father</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Middleton" title="Thomas Middleton">Thomas Middleton</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Changeling_(play)" title="The Changeling (play)">The Changeling</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Brustein also conceived and adapted the musical <i><a href="/wiki/Shlemiel_the_First_(musical)" title="Shlemiel the First (musical)">Shlemiel the First</a></i>, based on the stories of <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer" title="Isaac Bashevis Singer">Isaac Bashevis Singer</a> and set to traditional <a href="/wiki/Klezmer_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Klezmer music">klezmer music</a>, which was directed and choreographed by <a href="/wiki/David_Gordon_(choreographer)" title="David Gordon (choreographer)">David Gordon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the original presentation in 1994 at ART<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> at the <a href="/wiki/American_Music_Theatre_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="American Music Theatre Festival">American Music Theatre Festival</a>, who co-produced the show, <i>Shlemiel the First</i> was revived several times in Cambridge and subsequently played at the <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Center" title="Lincoln Center">Lincoln Center</a> Serious Fun Festival, the <a href="/wiki/American_Conservatory_Theater" title="American Conservatory Theater">American Conservatory Theater</a> in San Francisco,<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Geffen_Playhouse" title="Geffen Playhouse">Geffen Playhouse</a> in Los Angeles,<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as touring theatres on the east coast of Florida and in <a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford, Connecticut</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The play has also been produced at <a href="/wiki/Theater_J" title="Theater J">Theater J</a><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in Washington, D.C.. A remount of the original David Gordon production was presented by Peak Performances at <a href="/wiki/Montclair_State_University" title="Montclair State University">Montclair State University</a>'s Kasser Theatre in January 2010,<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and went on to a three-week run at <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Skirball_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts" title="Skirball Center for the Performing Arts">Skirball Center for the Performing Arts</a>. </p><p>Brustein's klezmer musical, with composer Hankus Netsky, <i>The King of Second Avenue</i>, an adaptation of Israel Zangwill's <i>The King of the Schnorrers</i>, was produced at the <a href="/wiki/New_Repertory_Theatre" title="New Repertory Theatre">New Repertory Theatre</a> in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Original_works">Original works</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Brustein&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Original works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brustein's full-length plays include <i>Demons</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Nobody_Dies_on_Friday" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobody Dies on Friday">Nobody Dies on Friday</a></i>, <i>The Face Lift</i>, <i>Spring Forward, Fall Back</i>, and his Shakespeare Trilogy <i>The English Channel</i>, <i>Mortal Terror</i>, and "The Last Will." </p><p><i>Demons</i>, which was broadcast on <a href="/wiki/WGBH_(FM)" title="WGBH (FM)">WGBH</a> radio in 1993, had its stage world premiere as part of the American Repertory Theater New Stages Season. <i>Nobody Dies on Friday</i> was given its world premiere in the same series<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was presented at the <a href="/wiki/Singapore_Arts_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Singapore Arts Festival">Singapore Arts Festival</a> and the Pushkin Theatre in Moscow. It was included in Marisa Smith's anthology <i>New Playwrights: Best Plays of 1998</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Spring Forward, Fall Back</i> was produced in 2006 at the <a href="/wiki/Vineyard_Playhouse" title="Vineyard Playhouse">Vineyard Playhouse</a><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on <a href="/wiki/Martha%27s_Vineyard" title="Martha's Vineyard">Martha's Vineyard</a> and at Theater J<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in Washington. <i>The English Channel</i> was produced at the C. Walsh Theatre of Suffolk University in Boston and at the Vineyard Playhouse in the fall of 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Fall of 2008, it played at the Abingdon Theatre in New York where it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. </p><p>His short plays <i>Poker Face</i>, <i>Chekhov on Ice</i>, <i>Divestiture</i>, <i>AnchorBimbo</i>, <i>Noises</i>, <i>Terrorist Skit</i>, <i>Airport Hell</i>, <i>Beachman's Last Poetry Reading</i>, "Sex For a Change", and <i>Kosher Kop</i> were all presented by the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Playwrights%27_Theatre" title="Boston Playwrights' Theatre">Boston Playwrights' Theatre</a> and form a play called "Seven/Elevens.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Brustein was also the author of <i>Doctor Hippocrates is Out: Please Leave a Message</i> an anthology of theatrical and cinematic satire on medicine and physicians, commissioned by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement for its 2008 convention in Nashville. Brustein's musical satire, <i>Exposed</i>, was performed in 2014 at the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Brustein&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brustein was the recipient of many awards and honors, including: </p> <ul><li>c.1953: <a href="/wiki/Fulbright_Program" title="Fulbright Program">Fulbright Fellowship</a> to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Nottingham" title="University of Nottingham">University of Nottingham</a>, 1953–1955<sup id="cite_ref-Nottingham_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nottingham-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1961: <a href="/wiki/John_Simon_Guggenheim_Memorial_Foundation" title="John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation">John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation</a> <a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellowship" title="Guggenheim Fellowship">Fellowship</a><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1962, 1987: Twice winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism:<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1962 for his reviews in <i>Commentary</i>, <i>Partisan Review</i>, <i>Harpers</i> and <i>New Republic</i>;<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1987 for <i>Who Needs Theatre: Dramatic Opinions</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Brustein is the only person to have received this award more than once.</li> <li>1964: <a href="/wiki/George_Polk_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="George Polk Award">George Polk Award</a> for Journalism (Criticism)<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1984: the 2nd Elliot Norton Award For Professional Excellence in Boston Theatre, known at the time as the Norton Prize, presented by the Boston Theater District Association,<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and now given by StageSource: the Greater Boston Theatre Alliance<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1985: New England Theatre Conference's Major Award for outstanding creative achievement in the American theatre<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1995: <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters">American Academy of Arts and Letters</a> Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1999: Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters<sup id="cite_ref-Current_Academicians_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Current_Academicians-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2000: Association for Theatre in Higher Education Career Achievement Award for Professional Theatre<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2001: The Commonwealth Award for Organizational Leadership (Massachusetts' highest honor)<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2002: Inducted into the <a href="/wiki/American_Theatre_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="American Theatre Hall of Fame">American Theatre Hall of Fame</a><sup id="cite_ref-ATHOF_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ATHOF-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2003: <a href="/wiki/USITT" class="mw-redirect" title="USITT">United States Institute for Theatre Technology</a> Lifetime Achievement Award<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2003: National Corporate Theatre Fund chairman's Award for Achievement in Theatre<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2005: <a href="/wiki/Gann_Academy" title="Gann Academy">Gann Academy</a> Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2008: Eugene O'Neill Foundation's Tao House Award for serving the American theatre with distinction<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2010: <a href="/wiki/National_Medal_of_Arts" title="National Medal of Arts">National Medal of Arts</a></li> <li>2011: <a href="/wiki/The_Players_(New_York_City)" title="The Players (New York City)">Players Club</a> Hall of Fame</li></ul> <p>In addition, Brustein received the <a href="/wiki/Luigi_Pirandello" title="Luigi Pirandello">Pirandello</a> Medal, and a medal from the Egyptian government for contributions to world theatre. His papers are housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at <a href="/wiki/Boston_University" title="Boston University">Boston University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Brustein&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.suffolk.edu/21013.html">Celebrated Writer-Director Robert Brustein Joins Suffolk University</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Current_Academicians-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Current_Academicians_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Current_Academicians_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians_current.php">Current Academicians</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ATHOF-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ATHOF_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ATHOF_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bestplaysonline.com/HOF2007.pdf">Complete List of ATHOF Inductees (pdf)</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.najp.org/fellowships/pastfellows.html">National Arts Journalism Program Past Fellows</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://annenberg.usc.edu/CentersandPrograms/ProfessionalEducation/NEAArtsJournalism/PrevFac.aspx#Brustein">NEA Arts Journalism Institute Previous Faculty</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Weber-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Weber_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Weber_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Weber_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Weber_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Weber_6-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Weber_6-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWeber2023" class="citation news cs1">Weber, Bruce (October 30, 2023). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/theater/robert-brustein-dead.html">"Robert Brustein, Passionate Force in Nonprofit Theater, Dies at 96"</a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. 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<li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.princetoninfo.com/wilson.html">Wilson vs. Brustein</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">["The Siren Song of Broadway is a Warning," <i>New York TImes</i>, May 22, 1988]</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/03/theater/l-who-exercises-artistic-control-685188.html">"Who Exercises Artistic Control?"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. July 3, 1988.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Who+Exercises+Artistic+Control%3F&rft.date=1988-07-03&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1988%2F07%2F03%2Ftheater%2Fl-who-exercises-artistic-control-685188.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Brustein" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>How Much Should a Critic Know?</i> Davi Napoleon, TheaterWeek Magazine, June 12–18, 1995, p 41-43</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amrep.org/past/duck/duck.html">ART Past Productions: The Wild Duck</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amrep.org/past/master/master.html">ART Past Productions: The Master Builder</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amrep.org/past/farces/farces.html">ART Past Productions: Three Farces and a Funeral</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amrep.org/enrico/">ART Past Productions: Enrico IV</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amrep.org/lysistrata/">ART Past Productions: Lysistrata</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amrep.org/past/characters/char.html">ART Past Productions: Six Characters</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://americanrepertorytheater.org/shows-events/ghosts/">ART Past Productions: Ghosts</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFClay1982" class="citation news cs1">Clay, Carolyn (June 1, 1982). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_1982-06-01_11_22/page/n60/mode/1up">"Old haunts: Brustein puts the ghosts back in 'Ghosts'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>The Boston Phoenix</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 1,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Boston+Phoenix&rft.atitle=Old+haunts%3A+Brustein+puts+the+ghosts+back+in+%27Ghosts%27&rft.date=1982-06-01&rft.aulast=Clay&rft.aufirst=Carolyn&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fsim_boston-phoenix_1982-06-01_11_22%2Fpage%2Fn60%2Fmode%2F1up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Brustein" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=239644">Harvard Crimson review</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to Alvin Klein, writing in the <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=2&res=990CE0D61E38F93AA35757C0A963958260&oref=slogin&oref=login">New York Times</a></i>: "It can be said that Singer is the original author, Mr. Brustein is the adapter and Mr. Gordon is the auteur."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to John Lahr, writing in The New Yorker: "In its artfulness and eloquence, "Shlemiel the First" is far better than anything currently on Broadway."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amrep.org/past/shlemiel/shlemiel.html">ART Past Productions: Shlemiel the First</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.act-sf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_history_production#1996">ACT Production History</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117906270.html?categoryid=31&cs=1">Variety review</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=990CE0D61E38F93AA35757C0A963958260">'Shlemiel' Continues A Path to Broadway</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://washingtondcjcc.org/center-for-arts/theater-j/07-08-season/shlemiel-the-first/shlemiel-the-first-main-page.html">Theater Shlemiel the First</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.peakperfs.org/performances/Schlemiel_1">Shlemiel the First</a> at Peak Performances</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newrep.org/productions/the-king-of-second-avenue/">"The King of Second Avenue"</a> on the New Repertory Theatre website</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amrep.org/past/friday/friday.html">ART Past Productions: Nobody Dies On Friday</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith2000" class="citation book cs1">Smith, Marisa (2000). <i>New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1998</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 20,</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=1964+winners&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brooklyn.liu.edu%2Fpolk%2Fprev%2Fprev60.html%2364&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Brustein" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FL9UAAAAMAAJ&q=%22boston+theater+district+association%22">"Urban Land"</a>. 1987.</cite><span 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Gottlieb Archival Research Center Acquires the Person Archive of Robert Brustein</a></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Brustein&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Plotkins, Marilyn J. <i>The American Repertory Theatre Reference Book: The Brustein Years</i>, 2005. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-313-28913-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-313-28913-1">0-313-28913-1</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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