Word: brustein
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...Institute's faculty and staff help out a bit too. All are A.R.T. affiliates with impressive credentials, and some like Charles Levin have been on TV and appeared in feature films. At their head sits the insuperable Robert Brustein, a godfather to the business and one of the most important voices in American theater today. He founded both the Yale Repertory and American Repertory Theatres, he is Professor of English at Harvard (he requires Institute students to audit his theater classes) and The New Republic retains him as their drama critic...
...Brustein's vision for the Institute somewhat resembles Harvard's approach to a liberal arts education--to teach approaches and methods to acting rather than a fixed body of works. He wants theater training to be both visionary and practical, sometimes experimental but always grounded in fundamentals...
Since 1979 when he first came to Harvard, Brustein has managed to transform theater education in much the same way he transformed the Yale School of Drama during his 13 years there, albeit on a smaller scale. The resulting curriculum takes a comprehensive approach to the essentials of staging a show, while liberally conceding that the students are artists, not just apprentices...
...their public relations needs. (If there were no lung cancer or emphysema, the arts would get much less.) Increasingly, these needs are defined as social rather than artistic. Hence the shift, in private philanthropy, to race- and gender-based programs, meant to make art what theatrical director Robert Brustein calls "a conduit for social justice" rather than art as art. As the newsletter Corporate Philanthropy Report recently noted, "We no longer 'support' the arts. We use the arts in innovative ways to support the social causes chosen by our company...
Professor of English Robert S. Brustein, the founder and director of the American Repertory Theater who teaches lecture courses on dramatic writing, often appears in The New Republic...