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That bizarre sequence opens Tonight We Improvise, a play by Luigi Pirandello, adapted and directed by Robert Brustein for his American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass. Brustein also plays the impresario advocating auteurism; the cameraman is Frederick Wiseman, renowned for such PBS cinema verite documentaries as Canal Zone and Meat. Their monologues, just serious enough to be plausible -- Brustein actually does believe that directors have as creative a role as writers -- eventually become self-mockingly funny. But the jokes seem to go over the heads of much of the audience; instead of laughing, many spectators stare deadpan as if trying...
...Critics affect our theater [the non-profit A.R.T.] hardly at all," said Brustein. "We don't really need critics here the way the New York commercial theater needs critics, to tell people...
...have to recognize that drama criticism has to be dealing with a changing theater, and that drama criticism is falling behind," said New Republic Drama Critic Robert S. Brustein, professor of English and artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T...
...Drama criticism is equipped to deal with a commercial theater that is dropping dead before our eyes," Brustein said...
Critics "are not looked upon with great favor because we're not accountable to anyone," said Brustein...