Robert Brustein(1927-2023)

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Robert Brustein: A Celebration (2021)

Robert Brustein was born on 21 April 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is known for NET Playhouse (1964), Camera Three (1954) and Chaos and Order: Making American Theater (2005). He was married to Doreen Beinart and Norma Ofstrock Cates Brustein (actress, teacher). He died on 29 October 2023 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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- dean, Yale Repertory Theatre of the Yale Drama School
- 1969

Born
- April 21, 1927
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died
- October 29, 2023
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA(undisclosed)
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Other works
He adapted and conceived Isaac Bashevis Singer's play, "Schlemist The First," in an American Conservatory Theatre production in San Francisco, California. David Gordon was director.
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Trivia
He was awarded the 2010 National Medal of Arts for his contributions to the American theatre as a critic, producer, playwright, and educator. He was the founder of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theatre and Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, and was a former theatre critic for The New Republic since 1959. He has been a leading force in the develop of theatre and theatre artists in the United States.

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[observation, 2014] It is often said that the state of a country's art is reflective of its deeper values. Judging by the condition of our culture today, both in the arts and the wider society, we must ask if those values have any depth at all.