Robert Brustein
| Robert Brustein | |
|---|---|
| Born | Robert Sanford Brustein April 21, 1927 New York City |
| Occupation | theatrical critic, producer, playwright, educator |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1959 – present |
| Genre | Theatre |
| Spouse | Norma Ofstrock (1962–1979) Doreen Beinart (1996–) |
| Children | Daniel Brustein Stepchildren: Phillip Cates Jean Beinart Stern Peter Beinart |
Robert Sanford Brustein (born April 21, 1927) is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, writer and educator. He founded both Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remains a Creative Consultant, and has been the theatre critic for The New Republic since 1959. He comments on politics for the Huffington Post.
Brustein is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University and a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Suffolk University in Boston. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999 and in 2002 was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. In 2003 he served as a Senior Fellow with the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University, and in 2004 and 2005 was a senior fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts Arts Journalism Institute in Theatre and Musical Theatre at the University of Southern California.
Brustein is married to Doreen Beinart, and has one son, Daniel Brustein, and three stepchildren, Phillip Cates, Peter Beinart and Jean Beinart Stern.
Brustein was born in New York City. His parents were Max, a businessman, and Blanche (Haft) Brustein. He was educated at The High School of Music & Art, and Amherst College, where he received a BA in 1948, and Columbia University, where he received an MA in 1949 and a PhD in 1957. During this time, he served in the Merchant Marine on tankers and Victory ships, and later at Kings Point Academy on Long Island. He also held a Fulbright Fellowship to study in the United Kingdom from 1953 to 1955, where he directed plays at the University of Nottingham. After teaching at Cornell University, Vassar College, and Columbia, where he became a full professor of dramatic literature in the English department, he became Dean of the Yale School of Drama in 1966, and served in that position until 1979. It was during this period, in 1966, that he founded the Yale Repertory Theatre.
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