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...gaining a reputation as one of the best theaters in Boston because of the work of Artistic Director Robert Brustein, said George Gross, a friend of the company and self-claimed theater afficionado. In general Brustein puts on a few classic works but mostly different types of drama, he said...
...Brustein has also been able to draw well-known celebrities to the theater. Simon and Wallace both said they knew Brustein from Martha's Vineyard. "I beat him at tennis all summer long," said Wallace. And Simon said she met him when she was a child, darting between grownups' legs at a cocktail party...
Neither is a regular patron of the company, though Wallace said he saw Brustein's work at Yale "so I know what to expect at Harvard...
...enough to come to Cambridge for her undergraduate education. A native of Dallas who was the only woman to be named a 1988 Presidential Scholar of the Arts in the theater category, Simpson says, "I am just really excited to be near the ART and to work with Robert Brustein." She adds that she plans to get involved with dancing, acting, directing and even writing plays for Harvard theater...
Holmberg said that he considered Brustein's critical work is on a level with that of George Bernard Shaw and Kenneth Tynan. "What makes a critic great is the quality of his thought, and the quality of his style. No one comes close to Brustein in either area. He is a great master of English prose," he said...