Robert Brustein is a playwright, director, actor, and founding artistic director of two major theatre companies--the Yale Repertory and American Repertory theatres. He served thirteen years as dean of the Yale School of Drama, where he founded Yale Cabaret and Theatre Magazine, and twenty-one years as professor of English at Harvard, where he founded the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Currently distinguished scholar in residence at Suffolk University, he is a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Past is Prologue1 Cultural PassagesThe Institution as a Work of ArtMore MasterpiecesWeill, Lenya, and the Broadway MusicalThornton Wilder: The Paleface Who Wanted to Be a RedskinMel Brooks's America: Puttin' on the SpritzThe Like GenerationReturn of the BooboisieChina Begins to Dream2 Playwright PassagesAeschylusEdward AlbeeAristophanesAlan AyckbournSamuel BeckettAnton ChekhovNoel CowardGilbert and SullivanLorraine HansberryHenrik IbsenTony KushnerArthur MillerEugene O'NeillLuigi PirandelloTheresa RebeckSarah RuhlArthur SchnitzlerWilliam ShakespeareGeorge Bernard ShawSam ShepardSophoclesTom StoppardFrank WedekindAugust StrindbergTennessee WilliamsAugust Wilson3 Commemorative PassagesF. Murray AbrahamRobert WoodruffJohn Douglas ThompsonOskar EustisCarmen De LavalladeChristopher DurangPhilip RothDavid WheelerStanley KauffmannJeremy GeidtEpilogueIndex

Robert Brustein is a playwright, director, actor, and founding artistic director of two major theatre companies--the Yale Repertory and American Repertory theatres. He served thirteen years as dean of the Yale School of Drama, where he founded Yale Cabaret and Theatre Magazine, and twenty-one years as professor of English at Harvard, where he founded the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Currently distinguished scholar in residence at Suffolk University, he is a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Past is Prologue1 Cultural PassagesThe Institution as a Work of ArtMore MasterpiecesWeill, Lenya, and the Broadway MusicalThornton Wilder: The Paleface Who Wanted to Be a RedskinMel Brooks's America: Puttin' on the SpritzThe Like GenerationReturn of the BooboisieChina Begins to Dream2 Playwright PassagesAeschylusEdward AlbeeAristophanesAlan AyckbournSamuel BeckettAnton ChekhovNoel CowardGilbert and SullivanLorraine HansberryHenrik IbsenTony KushnerArthur MillerEugene O'NeillLuigi PirandelloTheresa RebeckSarah RuhlArthur SchnitzlerWilliam ShakespeareGeorge Bernard ShawSam ShepardSophoclesTom StoppardFrank WedekindAugust StrindbergTennessee WilliamsAugust Wilson3 Commemorative PassagesF. Murray AbrahamRobert WoodruffJohn Douglas ThompsonOskar EustisCarmen De LavalladeChristopher DurangPhilip RothDavid WheelerStanley KauffmannJeremy GeidtEpilogueIndex

Robert Brustein is a playwright, director, actor, and founding artistic director of two major theatre companies--the Yale Repertory and American Repertory theatres. He served thirteen years as dean of the Yale School of Drama, where he founded Yale Cabaret and Theatre Magazine, and twenty-one years as professor of English at Harvard, where he founded the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Currently distinguished scholar in residence at Suffolk University, he is a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Past is Prologue1 Cultural PassagesThe Institution as a Work of ArtMore MasterpiecesWeill, Lenya, and the Broadway MusicalThornton Wilder: The Paleface Who Wanted to Be a RedskinMel Brooks's America: Puttin' on the SpritzThe Like GenerationReturn of the BooboisieChina Begins to Dream2 Playwright PassagesAeschylusEdward AlbeeAristophanesAlan AyckbournSamuel BeckettAnton ChekhovNoel CowardGilbert and SullivanLorraine HansberryHenrik IbsenTony KushnerArthur MillerEugene O'NeillLuigi PirandelloTheresa RebeckSarah RuhlArthur SchnitzlerWilliam ShakespeareGeorge Bernard ShawSam ShepardSophoclesTom StoppardFrank WedekindAugust StrindbergTennessee WilliamsAugust Wilson3 Commemorative PassagesF. Murray AbrahamRobert WoodruffJohn Douglas ThompsonOskar EustisCarmen De LavalladeChristopher DurangPhilip RothDavid WheelerStanley KauffmannJeremy GeidtEpilogueIndex