Word: brustein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dean Shinagel, Mr. Brustein, President Rudenstine, I implore you: We need Alan. Please don't force him out. Diana Graham '93 President, Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players Co-producer, Into the Woods
...play or a concert. "If you spend the day watching your computer, you're not going to watch your television at night," contends Philip Glass, the avant-garde composer. "You'd rather go to the park and watch someone dancing." Live drama, predicts critic and iconoclastic director Robert Brustein, "will become what Jean Genet called 'the theater of the catacombs.' It will find small enclaves with the remainder of the faithful, like Christianity in the early days...
Coles is one of many Harvard professors who regularly writes for national magazines. Professor of English Robert. Brustein, the founder and director of the American Repertory Theater who teaches lecture courses on dramatic writing, often appears in The New Republic...
Hans Canosa: What fascinates me in his work is issues of--you know, Brustein always used to say excrementalism, that just means shit obviously--that fascinates me, the same way that Brecht in his early plays obsessed with images of shit and sex, and every sexual character was a pimp or a whore...the same thing with Strindberg where he's always talking about the dirt, rising out of the dirt...
Elegant. Hauntingly beautiful. The sets for Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken, based on an original English translation by American Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Robert Brustein, confirm post-modern director Robert Wilson as a visual artist of the first order. The scenery, designed by Wilson and John Conklin, is minimalist yet loses nothing in sumptuousness or effect...