Word: brustein
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...nominating committee called ART "the most vibrant and exciting theatre in New England today," Sabinson said, and praised ART director Robert S. Brustein for his "intellectual rigor" and the imaginativeness of the company's repertoire...
...Robert Brustein, who founded the ART in 1966 and currently serves as its director, will attend the 40th annual Tony Awards ceremony to receive the award. The presentation will be naitonally televised on CBS at 9 p.m. on June 1. The Award carries a $15,000contribution from American Express...
...Special Tony will be the second award to bereceived by Brustein on behalf of the ART thisyear. In November he received the Jujamcyn TheatreAward "for outstanding contribution to thedevelopment of creative talent for the theatre...
...director Robert Brustein sparked a frenzy of bidding on the last auction lot, when he substituted an afternoon with Reeve on Martha's Vinyard for the original prize--a tennis match with Art Buchwald and Brustein. The bidding immediately went up another $1000 dollars, peaking at $2700. "I went to a clairvoyant last week who told me I would marry someone with a name that begin with an R," said Jo Anne Kennedy, the lucky buyer...
...saying aside, however, The Changeling is credible dramatic fare. Brustein's masterful revision of the musty script warrants praise. Too bad he wasn't confident enough of his audience to let his rewrite run without all the oblations to trendiness. There should be a place at the ART for mainstream theatre that doesn't seek to break the sound barrier for its utter chic-ness. That is, if the professor doesn't mind putting aside his textbook on cornering the Latest Thing market...