Robert Brustein is a playwright, director, actor, and the founding artistic director of two major theatre companies--the Yale Repertory and American Repertory theatres. He spent 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.

• IntroductionI Literary Word Plays1 The Contemporary American Theater2 Arab Spring Forward, Fall Back3 Theater and the University: Marriage or Misalliance4 How to Love Your Country5 Shakespeare's Absent Queen6 School for Crime7 DynastiesII Dramatic Word Plays1 Broken News2 Poker Face3 Airport Hell4 Sex for a Change5 Kosher Kop6 Allies in Blunderland7 The Comfort Zone8 Gun Play9 The Press Assess the Gettysburg Address10 Moses and the Deep Red SeaIII Commendatory Word Plays1 Wendy Wasserstein2 Austin Pendleton3 Justin Kaplan4 Jonathan Miller5 Blushing6 Lewis Black7 Mark Rylance8 Todd London9 Robert KileyCodaIndex

Robert Brustein is a playwright, director, actor, and the founding artistic director of two major theatre companies--the Yale Repertory and American Repertory theatres. He spent 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.

• IntroductionI Literary Word Plays1 The Contemporary American Theater2 Arab Spring Forward, Fall Back3 Theater and the University: Marriage or Misalliance4 How to Love Your Country5 Shakespeare's Absent Queen6 School for Crime7 DynastiesII Dramatic Word Plays1 Broken News2 Poker Face3 Airport Hell4 Sex for a Change5 Kosher Kop6 Allies in Blunderland7 The Comfort Zone8 Gun Play9 The Press Assess the Gettysburg Address10 Moses and the Deep Red SeaIII Commendatory Word Plays1 Wendy Wasserstein2 Austin Pendleton3 Justin Kaplan4 Jonathan Miller5 Blushing6 Lewis Black7 Mark Rylance8 Todd London9 Robert KileyCodaIndex

Robert Brustein is a playwright, director, actor, and the founding artistic director of two major theatre companies--the Yale Repertory and American Repertory theatres. He spent 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.

• IntroductionI Literary Word Plays1 The Contemporary American Theater2 Arab Spring Forward, Fall Back3 Theater and the University: Marriage or Misalliance4 How to Love Your Country5 Shakespeare's Absent Queen6 School for Crime7 DynastiesII Dramatic Word Plays1 Broken News2 Poker Face3 Airport Hell4 Sex for a Change5 Kosher Kop6 Allies in Blunderland7 The Comfort Zone8 Gun Play9 The Press Assess the Gettysburg Address10 Moses and the Deep Red SeaIII Commendatory Word Plays1 Wendy Wasserstein2 Austin Pendleton3 Justin Kaplan4 Jonathan Miller5 Blushing6 Lewis Black7 Mark Rylance8 Todd London9 Robert KileyCodaIndex