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...Lester. Her predecessor, Robert Woodruff, left the A.R.T. after his contract expired in December 2006. Woodruff’s exit sparked a 16-month search, during which one top candidate—Steppenwolf Theatre Company member Anna D. Shapiro, according to A.R.T. founding director and creative consultant Robert S. Brustein??turned down the job. But like Paulus’ broken arm, the search’s long duration is being viewed by A.R.T. observers not as a hindrance but as a possible windfall...
...theatrical professionals, Wilson specifically attacked Robert Brustein, theatre critic for The New Republic (TNR). Prior to the conference, Brustein had written several articles for TNR and The New York Times on the dangers of allowing sociological concerns overtake artistic merit in competitions for public arts grants.“Brustein??s surprisingly sophomoric assumption that this tremendous outpouring of work by minority artists leads to confusing standards and that funding agencies have started substituting sociological for aesthetic criteria, leaving aside notions like quality and excellence, shows him to be a victim of 19th-century thinking and the linguistic...
...80.While the environment was conducive to independence, students had nowhere to turn to learn the practical theater arts in an academic setting. This dilemma was meant to be resolved in 1978 with the founding of the A.R.T. by Brustein, who had also founded the Yale Repertory Theatre. Brustein??s exodus was the reverse of Baker’s. “My time was up at Yale,” he recalls. But there was one problem: Brustein didn’t want the A.R.T. to be a Harvard organization.“He came...
...ethical catastrophe for our people,” Kushner said, citing human rights concerns for Palestinians.“I think of myself as an American, a Jew, but certainly not an Israeli,” he said.FRICTION IN REMEMBRANCE OF MILLERShortly after the Hillel talk, Kushner joined Robert Brustein??a 78-year-old founding member of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theatre, as well as a veteran critic for The New Republic—at the Brattle Theater for a contentious discussion of Arthur Miller’s life and work.The two dramatic powerhouses...
President Neil L. Rudenstine is heading the nation-wide search to find Brustein??s successor before Brustein steps down this spring...