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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.
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. Brustein died on Sunday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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 his wife, Doreen Beinart.
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.
He revolutionized regional theater and had long stints at Harvard and Yale.
Mr. Brustein juggled multiple roles over seven active decades, becoming first a forbiddingly erudite theorist and critic before founding and running two companies at American theater's vanguard.