1. Robert Sanford Brustein was an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator.
20 Facts About Robert Brustein
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Robert Brustein founded the Yale Repertory Theatre while serving as dean of the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as the American Repertory Theater and Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a creative consultant until his death, 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 Sanford Brustein was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 21,1927, to Blanche Haft Brustein and Max Brustein.
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Robert Brustein grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, residing in the same apartment building as Sergei Rachmaninoff.
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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 then served on the faculty of the institute.
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Robert Brustein was a distinguished scholar in residence from 2007, at Suffolk University, where he taught courses in Shakespeare Analysis.
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Robert Brustein was married to actress Norma Ofstrock until her death in 1979.
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Robert Brustein died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 29,2023, at the age of 96.
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Robert Brustein was the theatre critic for The New Republic from 1959 to "about 2000", and later contributed to The Huffington Post.
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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 commented on contemporary social and political issues for the Huffington Post.
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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 was 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 was 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.