Robert Sanford Brustein was born on April 21,1927 and is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator.
16 Facts About Robert Brustein
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Robert Brustein founded both the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, and the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remains a creative consultant, and was the theatre critic for The New Republic.
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Robert Brustein was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999, and in 2002, was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Robert Brustein held a Fulbright Fellowship to study in the United Kingdom from 1953 to 1955, where he directed plays at the University of Nottingham.
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In 1979, Robert Brustein left Yale for Harvard University, where he founded the American Repertory Theater and became a professor of English.
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Robert Brustein retired from the artistic directorship of ART in 2002, and now serves on the faculty of the institute.
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Robert Brustein has been a distinguished scholar in residence since 2007, at Suffolk University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare Analysis.
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Robert Brustein was the theatre critic for The New Republic from 1959 to "about 2000", and contributes to the Huffington Post.
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Robert Brustein is the author of sixteen books on theatre and society:.
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Robert Brustein was the writer and narrator of a WNET television series in 1966 called The Opposition Theatre.
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Robert Brustein criticized the not-for-profit theaters for developing commercial work and becoming tryout houses for Broadway.
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Napoleon pointed out that while Robert Brustein sometimes reviewed colleagues and former students, he did not always review them favorably.
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Robert Brustein conceived and adapted the musical Shlemiel the First, based on the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer and set to traditional klezmer music, which was directed and choreographed by David Gordon.
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Robert Brustein is the author of Doctor Hippocrates is Out: Please Leave a Message an anthology of theatrical and cinematic satire on medicine and physicians, commissioned by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement for its 2008 convention in Nashville.
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Robert Brustein has been the recipient of many awards and honors, including:.
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Robert Brustein's papers are housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.