Millennial Stages

Robert Brustein, founding director of the American Repertory Theatre and of the Yale Repertory Theatre, has been a key figure in American theater for the last forty years. Drama  critic for The New Republic since 1959, he is  the author of fourteen books, seven plays, and twelve adaptations. Now Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University, he lives in Cambridge, MA, with his wife, Doreen Beinart.

“Brustein not only provides an important chronicle of an ephemeral art but also applies a historically informed and sophisticated intellect to theater criticism.”—Jonathan Kalb, Hunter College, CUNY    “Reading these essays by Robert Brustein is pleasurable, sometimes challenging, and always stimulating."—Christopher Durang, playwright"As a writer, Robert Brustein is America’s most intelligent theatre critic/author."—Robert Wilson, Director“Robert Brustein is the rarest of rare amphibians: a powerful theater practitioner who is also a powerful critic.  The essays in Millennial Stages, startlingly wide-ranging, energetic, and impressive, show Brustein at his best.  Savvy, fearless, opinionated, and fathomlessly curious, he is at once steeped in the classics and alert to the most recent tremors on the cultural seismograph.  Bravo!”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare “Robert Brustein is an artist and intellect who has done more to connect the life of the theater and delight mind than any thinker since Eric Bentley. Brilliant and infuriating, his criticism is indispensable and his voice is irreplaceable. He ennobles our sometime tawdry profession with his integrity and intelligence.”—Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, Public Theater