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...blind” casting is a controversial one in the larger theatrical world. August Wilson, the African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, argued that ethnic experiences are distinct and unique, and therefore cannot be successfully intertwined onstage. By contrast, Professor of English, Emeritus, theatre critic, and playwright Robert S. Brustein, contended that racial issues could be resolved onstage when he stated that “theater works best as a unifying rather than a segregating medium.” This discussion is missing at Harvard. The theater scene still does not involve nearly the number of minorities that it should...
...Globe Theater—was closed. But by 1660, the Puritan government had collapsed and Charles II took the throne, ushering in the Restoration and a renaissance in the dramatic arts as theaters were reopened. However, Harvard remained a Puritan stronghold and theater was still discouraged, according to Robert Brustein, founder of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the A.R.T.Only at the start of the 18th century was drama allowed, at least extra-curricularly, with the founding of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. It would take another 100 years for the Dramatic Arts to be taken even remotely seriously in the academic...
...Theatricals burst onto the stage, praising Faust’s orange top and Pilbeam’s red tie, but criticizing Smith’s wardrobe. Before leaving the stage, they handed Faust an oversized pair of scissors with which to cut the ribbon. Following the ribbon cutting, Robert Brustein moderated a discussion, “Does Playwriting have a Future?” Brustein, the founder of the American Repertory Theatre, led a panel composed of playwrights John Guare, Melinda Lopez, Adam Rapp, and Vogel. Rapp said there is a “need for a revolution?...
...famously authored the Pulitzer, Tony, and Emmy-winning “Angels in America,” as well as the screenplay to “Munich,” visited the Brattle Theatre last Wednesday. The occasion was a public discussion with theatrical director and theorist Robert Brustein about another celebrated American dramatist—the late Arthur Miller—and the recently-released anthology of Miller’s play edited by Kushner.Before the event at the Brattle, Kushner also made a visit to at Harvard Hillel to discuss the influence of his Jewish roots...
...separate African-American theater, castigated black playwrights and directors for participating in an "art that is conceived and designed to entertain white society" and decried the increasingly fashionable practice of "color-blind casting"--i.e., blacks playing traditionally white roles. The outcry was fierce; the drama critic Robert Brustein, in a blistering rebuttal in the New Republic, disparaged Wilson's plays and denounced his words as the "language of self-segregation...