Robert Brustein, critic and pioneer who founded stage programs at Ivy League institutions, championed nonprofit theater and tangled with playwrights Samuel Beckett and August Wilson, dies at 96.
Robert Brustein, a giant in the theatrical world as critic, playwright, crusader for artistic integrity and founder of two of the leading regional theaters in the country, has died. He was 96. Brustein died on Sunday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. according to an emailed statement from Gideon Lester, the artistic director and chief executive of the Fisher Center at Bard University and a decades-long family friend. Lester said he heard the news from Brustein's wife, Doreen Beinart.
“I was looking for the energies of popular theater applied to traditional work. I was also looking for new American plays. This was a very important function of ours, to encourage and develop new American playwrights.” Brustein’s own full-length plays include “Demons,” “The Face Life” and “Spring Forward, Fall Back” and “Nobody Dies on Friday,” based on the real-life relationship between Lee Strasberg and his student Marilyn Monroe.
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Robert Brustein, theater critic and pioneer who founded stage programs for Yale and Harvard, diesThe theatrical world has lost a giant
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Robert Brustein, theater critic and pioneer who founded stage programs for Yale and Harvard, diesThe theatrical world has lost a giant.
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Robert Brustein, a giant in the theatrical world, dies at 96The theatrical world has lost a giant. Robert Brustein was a critic and playwright who founded two of the leading regional theaters in the country. He died Sunday at the age of 96. Brustein was known as a passionate and provocative theater advocate who pushed for boundary-breaking works and for classics to be adventurously modernized.
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