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Castles in the Mud (2 Reviews) Robert Brustein
Strindberg as Dramatist, by Evert Sprinchorn
- Strindberg as Dramatist by Evert Sprinchorn
- Strindberg and the Poetry of Myth by Harry G. Carlson

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Ciao! Manhattan (Review) Robert Brustein
A Margin of Hope, by Irving Howe
- A Margin of Hope by Irving Howe


The Culture Watch (1975)Robert S. Brustein
Essays on Theatre and Society, 1969-1974
3 Reviews

The Culture WatchRobert Brustein
Notes on the Bottom Line

The Culture WatchRobert Brustein
The End of the Spiritual Hierarchy



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Film Chronicle (Review) Robert Brustein
Beginning of the End (1957 Film), by Bert I. Gordon
- Beginning of the End (1957 Film) by Bert I. Gordon


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Golden Boy (Review) Robert Brustein
Clifford Odets: American Playwright, by Margaret Brenman-Gibson
- Clifford Odets: American Playwright by Margaret Brenman-Gibson




Letter to a Secret ReaderRobert Brustein
An Honest Intelligible Radical Politics

LettersGeorge Feifer, Zhores A. Medvedev, and Robert Brustein, ...

LettersRobert Brustein, John Hersey, Susan Sontag, and Robert Wilson, ...

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Living Theater (Review) Robert Brustein
The Theater of Essence, by Jan Kott
- The Theater of Essence by Jan Kott

Fall Book Review
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The Logic of Survival in a Lunatic World (Review) Robert Brustein
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller


Making Scenes (1981)Robert S. Brustein
A Personal History of the Turbulent Years at Yale, 1966-1979
3 Reviews


Millennial Stages (2006)Robert Brustein
Essays and Reviews, 2001-2005
1 Review

Monkey BusinessRobert Brustein


Oh Theater: The Artifact MuseumRobert Brustein
Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams on Broadway---again

On the HorizonRobert S. Brustein
The New Faith of the Saturday Evening Post

On TheaterRobert Brustein

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Naked and the Dressed

On TheaterRobert Brustein
A Passionate Arts Conference

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Comparing Theatrical Resources

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Rituals of Privacy

On TheaterRobert Brustein
In the Constructive Element, Immerse

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Who Needs Theater?

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Pinter's New Play

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Ordinary People in Ordinary Plays

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Varieties of Theatrical Experience

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Fatigue in the Park

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Musical Into Opera

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Thoughts at Half Season

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Papp's Winter Line

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Heartaches and Gas Pains

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Opinions vs. Convictions

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Arguing With a Tank

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Shape of the New

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Great Artistic Director Burnout

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Coming at History from Two Sides

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Encouragement from Broadway

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Unsound Breeze from the Sound

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Plays of the Transition

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Back at the Starting Post

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Great Ladies and Others

On TheaterRobert Brustein
A Festival in Wartime

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Festival Fever

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Learning on the Job

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Squares in the Cirle

On TheaterRobert Brustein
English Gardens, American Frontiers

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Theater With a Public Dimension

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Promise of Permanent Companies

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Carmen Without Chorus, Chekhov Without Walls

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Another Theater Obituary

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Best and the Worst

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Advertising a Dying Industry

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Olivier's Lear

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Love from Two Sides of the Ocean

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Broadway Slump

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Beyond New York

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Don't Read This Review!

On TheaterRobert Brustein
William Poel's Shakespeare Legacy

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The Paradox of Actors

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Ant and the Dragon

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Boards Versus Artists

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Serban Under Siege

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Memoirs of a Moonlighter

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Musicalized Propaganda

On TheaterRobert Brustein
A Polish Political Fable

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Painless Dentistry

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Epilogue to Anger

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Exploding an Anarchist Play

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The British Have Come!

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Revivals and Resuscitations

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Hippolytus Can Feel!

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Hard and Soft Machines

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Monday on the Stage With Steve

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Private Views, Public Vistas

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Show and Tell

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Premature Death of Modernism

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Post-Naturalist Triumph

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Royal Tourist Attraction

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The Stratford Dilemma

On TheaterRobert Brustein
A Touris in New York

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Musical Chairs

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Strindberg to the Life

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Addressing a Hostile Audience

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Receiving an Award

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Theaterphilia vs. Theaterphobia

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Blurring the Edges

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Expanding Einstein's Universe

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Combating Amnesia

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Unsettled Weather

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Post-Modern Blues

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Becoming the Other Side

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Best of Broadway

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The Classical Avant-Garde

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Droodling

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Souls on Ice

On TheaterRobert Brustein
A Bottomless Dream

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Rumania, Rumania

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Liberty and Liberties

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Bach Goes to Town

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Infidelity Play

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The Shepard Enigma

On TheaterRobert Brustein
One-Person Shows

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Advanced Machines

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Highballs and Ballups

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An Englishman in New York

On TheaterRobert Brustein
A Shaggy Dog Story

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Texts and Subtexts

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Once More Into the Breach

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Tragedies of Apartheid

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Moonlight Serenades

On TheaterRobert Brustein
An Existential Ballet

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Here Are the Playwrights

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Theater and the Individual Talent

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Three Years After '1984'

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Look Back With Nostalgia

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Snarls from the Bedclothes

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Hallucination and Moral Dissent

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Headline Hunting

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Vaudeville and Radio

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Cold Hearts

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Snarls, Continued

On TheaterRobert Brustein
A Tribute to Robert Penn Warren

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Tynanosaurus Rex

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The Longest Journey

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The Hit of the Building

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Elegy for Old Age

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Running on Empty

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Godot in Lala Land

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Designs for Living (Rooms)

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The Definitive Production

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Twenty-First Century Hamlet

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Limits of the Auteur

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The Schlepic

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Artistic Injustice

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Yuppies, Past and Present

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Cycles of Lincoln Center

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The Voice of the Eighties

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Breaking the Frame

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Phedre With Pilaf and Pekoe Tea

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Kid Coriolanus

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Theater of 'Received Pronciation'

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Sex Life of Anton Chekhov

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Plays Fat and Thing

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Ms. Smith Goes to Washington

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Deconstructing Susan

On TheaterRobert Brustein
Accents and Dissents

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Element of Surprise

On TheaterRobert Brustein
A Berlin Diary

On TheaterRobert Brustein
The Staged Documentary

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Requiem

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Women in the Theater

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Or in the Heart or in the Head

On Theater: A Boon for the BooniesRobert Brustein
MASS MoCA is the unlikely setting of some of America's most innovative theatrical works

On Theater: A Homeboy GodotRobert Brustein
Topdog/Underdog rewrites Beckett; Fortune's Fool recycles Turgenev

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On Theater: A Question of Identity (Review) Robert Brustein
Edward Albee: A Singular Journey, by Mel Gussow
- Edward Albee: A Singular Journey by Mel Gussow

On Theater: A Season of ParchRobert Brustein
Four new shows try to bring life to a dry season on Broadway

On Theater: A Theater Marking TimeRobert Brustein
The star of the London scene: Diana Rigg in Medea

On Theater: Actors Directing ActorsRobert Brustein
The actors in Richard Jordan's Macbeth are classically trained, so why is the productio...

On Theater: Akalaitis AxedRobert Brustein
Wings at the Public Theater turns out to be a swan song

On Theater: Alice in WilsonlandRobert Brustein
Robert Wilson comes home with a triumphant Alice; The Food Chain is inedible

On Theater: All's Well That Ends in MelancholyRobert Brustein
Shakespeare in the Park's 1993 season does wonders with the bard's "Bed Trick Repertory"

On Theater: An American LifeRobert Brustein
Joe Papp's Public Theater and private troubles

On Theater: An Embarrassment of RichesRobert Brustein
A case for diluting the power of the New York Times theater critic

On Theater: An Oscar for ClintonRobert Brustein
The Thespian-in-Chief has a hit with his State of the Union address

On Theater: Angels in AfghanistanRobert Brustein
Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul is prescient and outdated, exhilerating and frustrating

On Theater: Angles in AmericaRobert Brustein
Tony Kushner's Angels in America actually deserves all---or almost all---the hype

On Theater: Anything You Do Too Damned LongRobert Brustein
Bill Irwin, America's modern clown, and other acts

On Theater: Architectural BarriersRobert Brustein
Unadventurous classics in London

Fall Books
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On Theater: Arthur Miller at 87 (2 Reviews) Robert Brustein
Echoes Down the Corridor, by Arthur Miller and Steven R. Centola
- Echoes Down the Corridor by Arthur Miller and Steven R. Centola
- Conversations with Arthur Miller by Matthew C. Roudane and Arthur Miller

On Theater: Arts Wars IIRobert Brustein
What both sides forget: shock is not the highest aim of art

On Theater: As the Globe TurnsRobert Brustein
Multiculturalism has a powerful friend in The Boston Globe and its campaign against ser...

On Theater: Aspects of Love and CompassionRobert Brustein
Shylock struggles to keep a new Merchant of Venice afloat; Love! Valour! Compassion! sinks

On Theater: Awards vs. AchievementsRobert Brustein
Tony baloney---and the dispassionate Fires in the Mirror, about the Crown Heights incident

On Theater: Boat ShowRobert Brustein
Harold Prince spruces up Show Boat


On Theater: Buchner in an Unfurnished RoomRobert Brustein
JoAnne Akalaitis's claustrophobic production of Woyzeck

On Theater: Calamity JaneRobert Brustein
Jane Alexander returns to the state in Honour; Shakespeare's R&J is a triumph of very n...

On Theater: Caricatures in Search of an AuthorRobert Brustein
The top-rated, X-rated miniseries brought to you by the Senate Judiciary Committee

On Theater: 'Cause Jam Don't Shake Like ThatRobert Brustein
Jelly's Last Jam, George C. Wolfe's new jazz musical about Jelly Roll Morton; the new o...

On Theater: Celebrity ClassicsRobert Brustein
Mike Nichols' star-studded Seagull turns out to be, well, steallar

On Theater: Character and Personality in ShakespeareRobert Brustein
Why Harold Blooom could play a great Falstaff, Lear or Hamlet

On Theater: Clever LadiesRobert Brustein
Imaginary Friends and Adult Entertainment hide too little content beneath too much styl...

On Theater: Comedy Is HarderRobert Brustein
Private Lives is anachronistically entertaining; an updated adaptation of The Underpant...

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On Theater: Contempt for Acting (Review) Robert Brustein
Marlon Brando, by Patricia Bosworth
- Marlon Brando by Patricia Bosworth

On Theater: Culture ClashesRobert Brustein
Breakdown and disaffection in the new London theater

On Theater: Death MarchesRobert Brustein
Pirandello's The Mountain Giants lumbers; Hamlet, with Ralph Fiennes, races

On Theater: Disaster at the NEARobert Brustein
John Frohnmayer's state-of-the-art mess

On Theater: Dreaming a Dream PlayRobert Brustein
Robert Wilson's stunning new production of A Dream Play

On Theater: Dress-Up PlaysRobert Brustein
Jon Robin Baitz's The Substance of Fire has substance but not much fire. Our Country's ...

On Theater: Emerging British DirectorsRobert Brustein
There's life in the old isle yet: three surprising new productions in London

On Theater: End-of-Season NotesRobert Brustein
Caryl Churchill's bizarre Ice Cream with Hot Fudge, and John Guare's satiric Six Degree...

On Theater: England Reaches OutRobert Brustein
A new cosmopolitanism in London theater

On Theater: Fairy TailspinRobert Brustein
Cymbeline veers out of control at the Public Theater


On Theater: FrontingRobert Brustein
Cape Town's Salaam Stories, Distict Six, and African Footprints reveal a new focus on n...

On Theater: Funding AudiencesRobert Brustein
The Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the influence of external money on internal a...

On Theater: Further Thoughts on OlivierRobert Brustein
Laurence Olivier vs. John Gielgud

On Theater: Hillbilly BluesRobert Brustein
Robert Schenkhan's The Kentucky Cycle aspires to epic and descends to melodrama

On Theater: Homogenized DiversityRobert Brustein
The new production of A Doll's House is an ideological misreading of Ibsen; How I Learn...


On Theater: I(n the Midst of DeathRobert Brustein
Beckett's visions of the end

On Theater: In the Belly of 'La Bete'Robert Brustein
David Hirson's virtuosic comedy of manners, La Bete, Stephen Sondheim's facile but tune...

On Theater: In the Company of WomenRobert Brustein
Just how much did Bertolt Brecht owe his mistresses?

On Theater: Intellect Into PassionRobert Brustein
Tony Kushner's nimble, and emotional, Slavs; Tom Stoppard's flashy but icy Hapgood

On Theater: Ivanov RevisitedRobert Brustein
Chekhov's youthful passion

On Theater: Jewish MetaphysicsRobert Brustein
Paddy Chayevsky, David Mamet, and Shel Silverstein deal with demons and dybbuks at Linc...

On Theater: Lighten Up, AmericaRobert Brustein
Censorious puritanism spreads among moralists and liberals alike

On Theater: McNally on the CrossRobert Brustein
Corpus Christi is a self-important take on the greatest story ever told

On Theater: Melting the ConcreteRobert Brustein
A report from London's Royal National Theatre

On Theater: Memories of JoeRobert Brustein
Joseph Papp and American theatre

On Theater: Mend It, Don't End ItRobert Brustein
Why the National Endowment for the Arts needs repair, not retirement


On Theater: Mind Over MaterialRobert Brustein
The Invention of Love is obnoxiously cerebral. Mnemonic is artfully so

On Theater: More Noise Than FunkRobert Brustein
Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk: a protest against protest theater


On Theater: Musicals and MusicalesRobert Brustein
A musical adaption of James Joyce's "The Dead" is a pleasant surprise; Tom Stoppard's c...

On Theater: Musicals With a MessageRobert Brustein
Ragtime and The Capeman are trashy sermons

On Theater: No Secrets, No RaptureRobert Brustein
The ostentatious integrity, and implausible plot, David Hare's Secret Rapture

On Theater: No Time for ComedyRobert Brustein
Can the show go on? It must

On Theater: On a Cold PlanetRobert Brustein
Roberto Zucco is feverish; Night and Her Stars is overly familiar

On Theater: On Cultural PowerRobert Brustein
August Wilson's hopeless separatism

On Theater: On the Cape TownRobert Brustein
New productions in South Africa are dealing realistically with race

On Theater: OpinionsRobert Brustein
Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden and John Guare's Four Baboons Adoring the Sun are ...

On Theater: Orpheaus CondescendingRobert Brustein
Peter Hall's hyped-up Tennessee Williams, starring a manic Vanessa Redgrave

On Theater: P.C.---or Not P.C.Robert Brustein
Anna Deavere Smith takes the pulse of burned-out L.A.; Jackie Mason spouts his own infl...

On Theater: Palace and GardenRobert Brustein
Maria Stuart is powerfully Shakespearean; House and Garden are just plain gimmicky

On Theater: Pastoral ShakespeareRobert Brustein
Summer brings Twelft Night and Cymbeline to New York

On Theater: Paying Tribute to MediocrityRobert Brustein
Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back! strikes a blow against Broadway musicals; Necessary Ta...

On Theater: Plays for People, PerhapsRobert Brustein
Gypsy revived is full of life; Other People's Money celebrates the romance of capitalism

On Theater: Plays for the ParchRobert Brustein
Sam Shepard's virtuosic Simpatico; black comedy in The Waiting Room

On Theater: Popular ElitismRobert Brustein
Stoppard's Arcadia is all showy wit and learning; Bergman's The Winter's Tale is fresh

On Theater: Prescient PlaysRobert Brustein
Far Away, Woyzeck, and The Aunt's Story are plays ahead of their times

On Theater: Reclaiming a Ruined ColossusRobert Brustein
The clumsy power of Eugene O'Neill's More Stately Mansions

On Theater: Resident Theater HopesRobert Brustein
The Tempest, Venus and Dance of Death suggest a brilliant renaissance in American theater

On Theater: Return of the MasterRobert Brustein
Ingmar Bergman's inspired visions of Peer Gynt and Madame de Sade

On Theater: Revisioning Tennessee WilliamsRobert Brustein
Radical new versions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Camino Real

On Theater: Revisited Plays, Revised OpinionsRobert Brustein
New productions of The Night of the Iguana, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fo...

On Theater: Separated by a Common PlaywrightRobert Brustein
Broken Glass, Arthur Miller's accident; A Winter's Tale, the RSC's triumph

On Theater: Sex, Art, and the Supreme CourtRobert Brustein
The folly of the NEA's decency test

On Theater: Shakespeare With an American AccentRobert Brustein
James Lapine's well-done Winter's Tale

On Theater: She-Plays, American-StyleRobert Brustein
Two portraits of heroines in search of freedom: Sophie Treadwell's Machinal (1928) has ...

On Theater: Shepard's ChoiceRobert Brustein
Sam Shephard's Buried Child reflects collective decay; his new book of stories, Cruisin...

On Theater: Spring RoundupRobert Brustein
Eugene O'Neill, David Hare, Conor McPherson, and Martin McDonagh on Broadway

On Theater: Stars and Their GassesRobert Brustein
Master Class is an efficient play; The Duchess of Malfi is an efficient production

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On Theater: Stella by Lamplight (Review) Robert Brustein
Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov, by Barry Paris and Stella Adler
- Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov by Barry Paris and Stella Adler

On Theater: Stella for StarRobert Brustein
In memory of Stella Adler


On Theater: Still Searching for TheaterRobert Brustein
Ibsen in California, Arthur Miller in New York, and other signs of life

On Theater: Subsidized SeparatismRobert Brustein
A response to August Wilson and black separatism

On Theater: Tempest in a SmokepotRobert Brustein
A furious new production of The Tempest

On Theater: Terror in the BedroomRobert Brustein
Christopher Walken's voluptuously evil Iago invigorates a new Othello in Central Park

On Theater: The Aesthetics of ViolenceRobert Brustein
Edward Bond's Saved shows that some things can still shock; A Skull in Connemara and Te...

On Theater: The American MouthRobert Brustein
Joan Rivers's solipsism

On Theater: The Audience, or Who Is the GoatRobert Brustein
Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia examines what it means to passionately love s...

On Theater: The Avant-Garde and Shock ArtRobert Brustein
The latest in victim theater: animals unite in Martha Clarke's Endangered Species

On Theater: The British ConquestRobert Brustein
Skirmishes and Top Girls, two mediocre imports

On Theater: The Death of the Collective IdealRobert Brustein
When nonprofit theater becomes yet another casualty of corporate values

On Theater: The Decline of High CultureRobert Brustein
The risky gamble of the American experiment in democracy

On Theater: The Descent of ManRobert Brustein
The Wooster Group's The Hairy Ape revivifies Eugene O'Neill

On Theater: The Director Who...Robert Brustein
Peter Brook adapts Oliver Sacks, but the oddities prove tedious

On Theater: The Dreaming of the BonesRobert Brustein
New Irish theater: Sean O'Casey's strong The Shadow of a Gunman, Brian Friel's derivati...

On Theater: The Dreams of Ingmar BergmanRobert Brustein
Producing Strindberg and O'Neill, the Swedish director stages strong night visions

On Theater: The Editorial PlayRobert Brustein
Larry Kramer's sermonizing The Destiny of Me; Wendy Wasserstein's toothless The Sisters...

On Theater: The First Amendment and the NEARobert Brustein
What Jesse Helms and other art critics don't understand

On Theater: The Good Hope of the CapeRobert Brustein
A look at Pieter-Dirk Uys, the theatrical conscience of post-apartheid South Africa

On Theater: The Great Work FaltersRobert Brustein
Tony Kushner's Perestroika is stylish but static; Robert Wilson's The Black Rider is a ...

On Theater: The Harrowing of HellRobert Brustein
Philip Glass chillingly reinterprets Kafka's In the Penal Colony; but two new versions ...

On Theater: The Havels and the Have-NotsRobert Brustein
Some Americans Abroad and Crowbar show unusual ambition. Still, American playwrights lo...

On Theater: The Heritage of MXATRobert Brustein
The Three Sisters is brought to unruly life at the Moscow Art Theatre

On Theater: The Hero of the NurseryRobert Brustein
An engrossing Peer Gynt in Hartford

On Theater: The Jew Who Buried HitlerRobert Brustein
Underneath the sequins and the swastikas, The Producers is a good old-fashioned musical...

On Theater: The Journey of Robert LepageRobert Brustein
The Seven Streams of the River Ota is Robert Lepage's greatest triumph yet

On Theater: The Las Vegas ShowRobert Brustein
The twenty-four-hours-a-day spectacle of America's monument to glut

On Theater: The Lesson of 'The Piano Lesson'Robert Brustein
August Wilson's ongoing epic about the legacy of racism succumbs to a vision of victimi...

On Theater: The Lion QueenRobert Brustein
The Lion King confirms Julie Taymor as the pride of the pride

On Theater: The Mercant of Venice BeachRobert Brustein
Peter Sellars, theatrical time-tripper, takes Shakespeare to contemporary California

On Theater: The NEA Belly UpRobert Brustein
America's art policy of fear

On Theater: The New BohemiansRobert Brustein
Rent needs control; The Green Bird is a triumph

On Theater: The New RelevanceRobert Brustein
Was Othello a Muslim? In the wake of September 11, the classics take on new meanings

On Theater: The Play About the PlayRobert Brustein
Edward Albee's latest offering alternates between brilliance and fraudulence

On Theater: The Poor CaretakerRobert Brustein
Simon Callow shrinks Orson Welles

On Theater: The Rebirth of Irish DramaRobert Brustein
A great dramatic tradition fears fresh fruit

On Theater: The Rehabilitation of Edward AlbeeRobert Brustein
Three Tall Women, a late career triumph

On Theater: The Ride Down Mount RushmoreRobert Brustein
The Ride Down Mount Morgan is a surprising new triumph from Arthur Miller; Four Saints ...

On Theater: The Roots of LoveRobert Brustein
Passion, an opera about love's miseries and mysteries, is a Sondheim triumph

On Theater: The Royal Court in Spunky Middle AgeRobert Brustein
The London season: The Man of Mode, The Libertine and Blasted

On Theater: The Schlepic Part IIRobert Brustein
Miss Saigon is a self-righteous sermon on guilt in musical form. Spend your $100 on a b...

On Theater: The Season of the PlayRobert Brustein
Goodnight Children Everywhere and Gertrude and Alice show that the drama is flourishing...

On Theater: The Smashing of the BellRobert Brustein
Why the arts in America need the NEA

On Theater: The Theater of PainRobert Brustein
Ariane Mnouchkine's monumental Les Atrides

On Theater: The Two O'NeillsRobert Brustein
Ah, Wilderness! and The Emperor Jones show different sides of Eugene O'Neill

On Theater: The Use and Abuse of MulticulturalismRobert Brustein
How a cosmopolitan ideal became a separatist slogan

On Theater: The War On the ArtsRobert Brustein
How the left, the right, and the center all conspire to doom high art in America

On Theater: This 'Money-Got, Mechanic-Age'Robert Brustein
Cats is a tricked-out dog; Good is just plain bad


On Theater: Travel PackagesRobert Brustein
Visit India in A Perfect Ganesh; try the Caribbean in a new Measure for Measure production

On Theater: Tripping Into the AbyssRobert Brustein
Hal Holbrook dares to do King Lear, Wallace Shawn rants in The Fever

On Theater: Two Fairy TalesRobert Brustein
Craig Lucas's Prelude to a Kiss promises to be disturbing but is only charming. Woyzeck...

On Theater: Two Moral X-RaysRobert Brustein
Patrick Marber's Closer and Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth put contemporary life ...

On Theater: Unity from DiversityRobert Brustein
I Am a Man revisits the '60s,; Marisol looks into an apocalyptic future

On Theater: Unreal CitiesRobert Brustein
Chicago is a revival worth visiting; The Waste Land is spell-binding

On Theater: Urban Angst and Its AntidoteRobert Brustein
The big, bad city stars in The Lights and The Treatment; Sherry Glaser stars in Family ...

On Theater: Varieties of Histrionic ExperienceRobert Brustein
Al Pacino is masterful in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Fiona Shaw is brilliantly d...

On Theater: Varieties of Musical ExperienceRobert Brustein
Neither Mamma Mia! nor Urinetown adds up to much, but The Screams of Kitty Genovese giv...

On Theater: Varieties of Sensual ExperienceRobert Brustein
Vienna Lusthaus (Revisited) shows theater's potential to be the most voluptuous of the ...

On Theater: Varieties of Theatrical ExperienceRobert Brustein
Highbrow texts meet lowbrow contexts in three new productions: Big Love, POEtry, and Ma...

On Theater: Ways to Break the SilenceRobert Brustein
Theatrical magic is made from spectable in Villa Villa and from eloquence in Wit

On Theater: Ways to Please an AudienceRobert Brustein
Centuries of tradition culminate in Vevey's Fete des Vignerons; Gwyneth Paltrow shines ...

On Theater: What Do Women Playwrights Want?Robert Brustein
Three idiosyncratic artists at work: Laurie Anderson, Paula Vogel, Suzan-Lori Parks

On Theater: What Makes a Play LiveRobert Brustein
The enduring excitement of Baal, the obsolete pieties of The Grapes of Wrath

On Theater: Whose Faust Is It Anyway?Robert Brustein
Randy Newman's Faust lacks soul; Michael Gambon brings beauty and power to Skylight by ...

On Theater: Wilson Lights Stein's LightsRobert Brustein
Gertrude Stein comes to life in Robert Wilson's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights

On Theater: Women in ExtremisRobert Brustein
Wendy Wasserstein's Heid Chronicles, The Big Chill of feminism

On Theater: Yuppie Realism, ContinuedRobert Brustein
Lips Together, Teeth Apart survives its marriage of romantic comedy and liberal guilt


On TheatreRobert Brustein
Danger: Manipulation

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Pain in the Arras (Review) Robert Brustein
Peter Hall's Diaries, by John Goodwin and Peter Hall
- Peter Hall's Diaries by John Goodwin and Peter Hall


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Portraits of the Master (Review) Robert Brustein
A Method to Their Madness, by Foster Hirsch
- A Method to Their Madness by Foster Hirsch


Repertory FeverRobert Brustein

Revolution As Theatre (1970)Robert Brustein
Notes on the New Radical Style
3 Reviews, 2 Readable


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Satire of Reproof (Review) Robert Brustein
Parktilden Village, by George P. Elliott
- Parktilden Village by George P. Elliott

Seasons of Discontent (1966)Robert Brustein
Dramatic Opinions, 1959-1965
3 Reviews


The Siege of the Arts (2001)Robert Brustein
Collected Writings 1994-2001
1 Review


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Tardy Bildungsroman (Review) Robert Brustein
Some Came Running, by James Jones
- Some Came Running by James Jones


TheaterRobert Brustein
A Living Audience

TheaterRobert Brustein
"A Loss of Roses"

TheaterRobert Brustein
This Man Is Dangerous

TheaterRobert Brustein
Two for the Miracl

TheaterRobert Brustein
Love Does It Again

TheaterRobert Brustein
Sir John at a Standstill

TheaterRobert Brustein
O'Neill's Adolescent Talkathon

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Theater (Review) Robert Brustein
From Paris to Fire Island
- Cheri and The Last of Cheri by Colette

TheaterRobert Brustein
Junkies and Jazz

TheaterRobert Brustein
A "Director's Theater"

TheaterRobert Brustein
Blood and Water

TheaterRobert Brustein
What's Wrong with the Phoenix

TheaterRobert Brustein
Krapp and a Little Claptrap

TheaterRobert Brustein
Nihilism on Broadway

TheaterRobert Brustein
Please Pass the Plasma

TheaterRobert Brustein
Andersonville Revisited

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Play and the Unplay

TheaterRobert Brustein
Meanwhile, Back at the Phoenix...

TheaterRobert Brustein
Broadway's Offstage Noises

TheaterRobert Brustein
Disputed Authorship

TheaterRobert Brustein
Libido at Large

TheaterRobert Brustein
Brecht and Others

TheaterRobert Brustein
Comedians from the Underground

TheaterRobert Brustein
"O, for a Draught..."

TheaterRobert Brustein
A Theory of Theatrical Relativity

TheaterRobert Brustein
Chronicle of a Reluctant Hero

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Theater (Review) Robert Brustein
The Abiguous Lure of the Bitch Goddess
- Apple and Square by Jack Gelber

TheaterRobert Brustein
Bertolt Brecht in Folio

TheaterRobert Brustein
A Satanic Masterpiece

TheaterRobert Brustein
Criticism and Journalism

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Enormous Sum of Zero

TheaterRobert Brustein
Off Broadway's Trials and Triumph

TheaterRobert Brustein
Fragments From a Cultural Explosion

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Lesson of the Moiseyev

TheaterRobert Brustein
Genet's Call to the Colors

TheaterRobert Brustein
Down Among the Dead Men

TheaterRobert Brustein
All Hail, Mahomet of Middle Seriousness

TheaterRobert Brustein
An Evening of Deja Vu

TheaterRobert Brustein
On Finding a Cure for Syphilologists

TheaterRobert Brustein
A Naturalism of the Grotesque

TheaterRobert Brustein
Defects and Virtues

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Composite Musical Play

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Shadow of a Noble Shadow

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Keynes of Times Square

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Healthiness of Sick Comedy

TheaterRobert Brustein
Off-Broadway Plays for Broadway

TheaterRobert Brustein
Strindberg: The Victor and the Vanquished

TheaterRobert Brustein
A Little Night Music

TheaterRobert Brustein
Hipster Dramatists, Square Spectators

TheaterRobert Brustein
Nights with the Old Vic

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Absurd and the Ridiculous

TheaterRobert Brustein
At Work and at Play with the APA

TheaterRobert Brustein
Vox Populi, Vox Box

TheaterRobert Brustein
Albee and the Medusa-Head

TheaterRobert Brustein
Brecht on the Rampage

TheaterRobert Brustein
Brecht on Broadway

TheaterRobert Brustein
A Scattering of Buckshot

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Anti-Establishmentarians

TheaterRobert Brustein
Candide Among the Culture-Vultures

TheaterRobert Brustein
A Night in the Brig

TheaterRobert Brustein
German Guilt and Swiss Indictments

TheaterRobert Brustein
Revivals: Good, Bad, and Insufferable

TheaterRobert Brustein
Tonight We Try to Improvise

TheaterRobert Brustein
Artists and Bureaucrats

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Playwright as Impersonator

TheaterRobert Brustein
English Gardeners and American Gardens

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Backwards Birds

TheaterRobert Brustein
Subsidized Rubbish

TheaterRobert Brustein
Love and Hate on Broadway

TheaterRobert Brustein
Muddy Track at Lincoln Center

TheaterRobert Brustein
Mid-Season Gleanings

TheaterRobert Brustein
Arthur Miller's Mea Culpa

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Underground Play

TheaterRobert Brustein
Memoirs of Mr. Bang

TheaterRobert Brustein
Shakespeare with a Few Tears

TheaterRobert Brustein
History as Drama

TheaterRobert Brustein
Everybody's Protest Play

TheaterRobert Brustein
We Are Two Cultural Nations

TheaterRobert Brustein
Fiddling While Talent Burns

TheaterRobert Brustein
Saul Bellow on the Drag Strip

TheaterRobert Brustein
Bagatelles and Jacks

TheaterRobert Brustein
Russian Evenings

TheaterRobert Brustein
Three Plays and a Protest

TheaterRobert Brustein
Health in an Ailing Profession

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Two Revolutions

TheaterRobert Brustein
Theater in London














TheaterRobert Brustein
The Trashing of Edward Albee

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Strategies of Adrian Hall

TheaterRobert Brustein
Shakespeare Our Contemporary

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Sound of Music

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Triumph of Mediocrity

TheaterRobert Brustein
Crossed Purposes

TheaterRobert Brustein
Mopping Up

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Legacy of the Group Theater

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Demise of BAM

TheaterRobert Brustein
A Theater Marking Time

TheaterRobert Brustein
Last Things

TheaterRobert Brustein
The Limits of Realism

Nuturing the Arts: A Special 60th Anniversary Supplement
Theater and the UniversityRobert Brustein
The Spirit of Excellence



Theater: A King and Two QueensRobert Brustein
Jonathan Miller's King Lear argues for the importance of estate planning; Valhalla prov...





Theater: Angels and BeardsRobert Brustein
The authorship of Tony Kushner matters a great deal to Caroline, or Change; In The Bear...

Theater: CreationsRobert Brustein
Four current New York productions encompass both the best and the worst of ensemble acting

Theater: Dysfunctional DynastiesRobert Brustein
All happy families may be alike, but each unhappy family (in Salome, Gypsy, and Long Da...


Theater: Forty Million FrenchmenRobert Brustein
This year's Tony awards provide an object lesson in the shortcomings of democracy

Theater: ImpersonationsRobert Brustein
For better and for worse, three new productions explore theater's dependence on imitiation

Theater: In the JungleRobert Brustein
Rose Rage, set in an abattoir, is Henry VI well done; Hedda Gabler is pathologically ri...

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Theater: Keeping Company With Kaufman (Review) Robert Brustein
Kaufman and Co., by Laurence Maslon and George S. Kaufman
- Kaufman and Co. by Laurence Maslon and George S. Kaufman

Theater: Lost in ThoughtRobert Brustein
Tom Stoppard shows of his erudition, again

Theater: Making the Familiar StrangeRobert Brustein
Do revamped revivals offer anything new? Or should we turn to genuinely fresh dramatic ...

Theater: Odious ComparisonsRobert Brustein
This year's Tony Award ceremony was remarkable for its relative inoffensiveness

Theater: Plays and PropheciesRobert Brustein
The pillorying of Lawrence Summers finds theatrical precedent; Arthur Miller was a powe...

Theater: Prosecution PlaysRobert Brustein
Broadway's interrogatory mood infects our critic

Theater: Pyrotechnics and IceRobert Brustein
Jumbers fuses show-business splash with arid academicism; the spare Frozen haunts

Theater: Reality TheaterRobert Brustein
Well, Hannah and Martin, and Who Killed Woody Allen? are evidence of our current obsess...

Theater: Red and Blue States of MindRobert Brustein
Ever since the last election, our country has been waging a political color war. But th...




Theater: Shakespeare in BloomRobert Brustein
Three new Shakespeare productions: are they anxiously influenced by Harold Blum?

Theater: Shotover's ApocalypseRobert Brustein
September 11 shadows a dinner party in Omnium Gatherum; Anna in the Tropics is sweet an...

Theater: Smelly OrthodoxiesRobert Brustein
A Bad Friend defines its characters by their politics; the protagonist of I Am My Own W...



Theater: The Past RevisitedRobert Brustein
The Frogs revitalizes a remake; After the Fall serves up autobiography undercooked

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Theater: The Peer and the Pariah (2 Reviews) Robert Brustein
Olivier, by Terry Coleman
- Olivier by Terry Coleman
- Elia Kazan: A Biography by Richard Schickel


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Theater: The Prisoner on the Aisle (Review) Robert Brustein
The Drama Is Coming Now, by Richard Gilman
- The Drama Is Coming Now by Richard Gilman


Theater: The Rebirth of Political TheaterRobert Brustein
The God of Hell offers a well-timed dose of paranoia; Democracy chronicles reconciliati...

Theater: The Saved and the DrownedRobert Brustein
Primo, based on the writings of Primo Levi, is a restrained, diligently researched inve...


Theater: Theater after 9/11Robert Brustein
Recycled revivals and escapist theater---in these times?

Theater: Theater of the Mushy TushyRobert Brustein
Ariane Mnouchkine's Le Dernier Caravanserail (Odyssees), a spectable about contemporary...

Theater: Time After Time SquareRobert Brustein
A tale of three imports: Life (x) 3, The Play What I Wrote, and Cosi Fan Tutte



Theater: When Egos CollideRobert Brustein
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci is thin on ideas; Henry V has far too many

Theater: Why Plays FailRobert Brustein
Midnight's Children is overcrowded, My Life With Albertine is clumsy, and Dirty Story i...

Theater: Women of LettersRobert Brustein
Remembering Susan Sontag, as theater critic, director, and dramatist; Caryl Churchill's...

TheatreRobert Brustein
Politics and the Higher Gossip

TheatreRobert Brustein
The Brothel and the Western World

TheatreRobert Brustein
Live Blossoms in Dead Soil

TheatreRobert Brustein
A Missed Masterpiece

TheatreRobert Brustein
Thoughts from Home and Abroad

TheatreRobert Brustein
California Wine in New York Bottles

TheatreRobert Brustein
Familiar Peru, Exotic Brooklyn

TheatreRobert Brustein
Further Reflections on Lincoln Center

TheatreRobert Brustein
Three Views of America

TheatreRobert Brustein
Sartre: The Janus of Modern Dramatists

TheatreRobert Brustein
Osborne's Elegiac Monody

TheatreRobert Brustein
Embarrassment of Riches

TheatreRobert Brustein
Albee's Allegory of Innocence

TheatreRobert Brustein
A Question of Identity

TheatreRobert Brustein
Journey and Arrival of a Playwright

TheatreRobert Brustein
Albee Decorates an Old House

TheatreRobert Brustein
Sepulchral Odors at Lincoln Center

TheatreRobert Brustein
Albee at the Crossroads

TheatreRobert Brustein
Consensus Theatre

TheatreRobert Brustein
Saturn Eats His Children

TheatreRobert Brustein and Gordon Rogoff
MacBird on Stage

TheatreRobert Brustein and Gordon Rogoff

TheatreRobert Brustein
Notes from the Underground

TheatreRobert Brustein
Waiting for Hamlet

TheatreRobert Brustein
From Hair to Hamlet

TheatreRobert Brustein
The Democratization of Art

TheatreRobert Brustein
The Unseriousness of Arthur Miller

TheatreRobert Brustein
The Anti-Hamlet of Joseph Papp

TheatreRobert Brustein
A Theatre Slouches to Be Born


The Theatre of Revolt (1964)Robert S. Brustein
An Approach to Modern Drama
5 Reviews, 2 Readable


The Third Theatre (1969)Robert S. Brustein
3 Reviews

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Village Idiots (2 Reviews) Robert Brustein
Greenwich Village 1963, by Sally Banes
- Greenwich Village 1963 by Sally Banes
- Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life by Allan Kaprow and Jeff Kelley


Who Needs Theatre (1987)Robert Brustein
Dramatic Opinions
1 Review, 1 Readable

Books and the Arts
Who's Killing the Novel?Robert Brustein



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Williams' Nebulous Nightmare (Review) Robert Brustein
Sweet Bird of Youth, by Tennessee Williams
- Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams

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