Robert Brustein is a playwright, director, critic, teacher, and founder of the Yale Repertory and American Repertory Theatres. His play The Last Will opens in New York in April at Abingdon’s June Havoc Theater, and then goes to the Wuzhen Festival in China. In 2010 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. (April 2013)
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From Brecht to Broadway
April 4, 2013
Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
by Ethan Mordden
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A Prince of the Palefaces
November 22, 2012
Thornton Wilder: A Life
by Penelope Niven
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The Ali Taygun Case
March 28, 1985
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Living Theater
March 14, 1985
The Theater of Essence by Jan Kott
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Ciao! Manhattan
February 3, 1983
A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Biography by Irving Howe
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Castles in the Mud
January 20, 1983
Strindberg as Dramatist by Evert Sprinchorn
Strindberg and the Poetry of Myth by Harry G. Carlson
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Golden Boy
February 4, 1982
Clifford Odets: American Playwright The Years from 1906 to 1940
by Margaret Brenman-Gibson
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Brecht in Plastic
April 30, 1981
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Brecht in Asphalt
February 5, 1981
Brecht’s America by Patty Lee Parmalee
Bertolt Brecht in America by James K. Lyon
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Protest to Podgorny
January 24, 1974
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Roth’s Novel
July 19, 1973
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Ford’s Better Idea
January 25, 1973
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Monkey Business
April 24, 1969
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The Third Theater Revisited
February 13, 1969
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Violence in Oakland
May 9, 1968
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Protest
March 14, 1968
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HUAC
September 8, 1966
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La Dolce Spumoni
December 23, 1965
Juliet of the Spirits directed by Federico Fellini
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Confessions of a Play Reviewer
April 22, 1965
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Letters
December 31, 1964
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Everybody Knows My Name
December 17, 1964
Nothing Personal by Richard Avedon, by James Baldwin
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No Popcorn
November 19, 1964
The Second New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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Fail-Safe, &c.
April 2, 1964
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Strangelove & Fail-Safe
March 5, 1964
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Out of This World
February 6, 1964
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Buechner
June 1, 1963
Complete Plays and Prose
by Georg Buechner, translated with an introduction by Carl Richard Mueller