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...eves of television's "The White Shadow," has considered the ART, where he is a featured per-former and acting teacher. The Tony and Emmy award winner departed "Dynasty" for Harvard, citing frustrations with work on the popular series and a desire to work again with Robert S. Brustein, the director...
Theatergoers expecting the Next Big Thing out of DeLillo are bound to be disappointed. He is covering ground blazed by Stoppard, Beckett and Pirandello, but he is covering it well. (Interestingly enough, last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the latter's death, and A.R.T.'s artistic director Robert Brustein designed this season as a sort of tribute to Italy's greatest dead playwright...
ANDREI SERBAN has staged an average of one production of season for the American Repertory Theatre--more than any other director, including the theater's founder and artistic director, Robert Brustein. As familiarity breeds contempt, especially in high culture, we might conclude that there is something wrong with him. Why would any real world-class auteur hang around Harvard Square? Robert Wilson seems only to spend scattered weeks here between breakfast meetings in Vladivostok and fundraisers in Kuala Lumpur. Now, there, there's an artiste...
...Robert Brustein, head of the ART, is a man of taste and discretion. He knows quality when he sees it, and he will go to bat for any playwright he believes in--sometimes to the point of hyperbole. So if this season really boasts the best that America's current dramatists can muster, I suggest a few moments of silence for the passing of the American play...
...follow this advice, you will miss some of the finest acting to ever grace the Loeb Mainstage. In the past, the Achilles Heel of the ART has been in the performers. As Brustein himself has complained, it is nearly impossible to keep good actors in Cambridge with New York just a shuttle away. For some reason, though, a covey of new and returning talent has decided to roost at the ART this season, revitalizing a company that was moribund two years...