Word: brustein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brustein's American Repertory Theater was notorious among major American institutional theaters for never originating main-stage productions of plays by Black Americans," Rich wrote...
...interview, Brustein said Rich's piece is a politically-correct attempt to exact revenge for an article Brustein wrote two years ago in The New Republic...
That article, entitled "An Embar- rassment of Riches," alleged that Rich and hiswife, who was the Times' theater reporter, workedtogether to promote and hurt he chances of certainplays. Brustein said the arrangement between Richand his wife, Alex Witchel, represented aninappropriate "consolidation of power" at theTimes...
...What you found in each case was that he wouldpraise the play and she would write a positivepiece about a playwright," Brustein said. "Orworse, the opposite would happen...
Making reference to Brustein's article in hisrecent piece, Rich charged that the professor hadcast his own wife in a show. "Often [Brustein]would stare conspicuously at Alex before the lightwent down at a performance we both attended," Richwrote...