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...first tackled the subject in his 1964 autobiographical play After the Fall. Critics savaged it ("A shameless piece of tabloid gossip," wrote Robert Brustein in the New Republic), particularly its scorching portrayal of the sexy, unstable singer so clearly modeled after Monroe. A Broadway revival earlier this year was almost equally reviled. You'd think Miller would let sleeping sex symbols lie. But now, 40 years later, he has revisited his marriage in yet another play, Finishing the Picture, an account of the making of The Misfits, the 1961 movie Miller wrote for his wife, which turned...
...American Repertory Theatre (ART) hires director Richard Woodruff to replace Robert Brustein as head of the theater company. The ART is known for its director-centric focus and its quirky, colorful adaptations of classic plays...
It’s the model of British and German universities, but not particularly common in America. “Harvard is probably one of the last hold-outs in its regard,” says Robert Brustein, former executive director and founder of the American Repertory Theater (ART), Cambridge’s only professional acting troupe which shares the Loeb Drama Center with undergraduates. “I can only guess that it was a kind of imitation of Oxford or Cambridge.” This structure—or lack thereof—has helped the arts gain...
...American Repertory Theatre (ART) hires director Richard Woodruff to replace Robert Brustein as head of the theater company. The ART is known for its director-centric focus and its quirky, colorful adaptations of classic plays...
Rudenstine says that, working with Brustein and Elizabeth C. Huidekoper, the University’s vice-president of finance, he has formed a list of candidates that is roughly 80 names long. He says there are about 20 people at the top of the list, seven or eight of whom are women...