Innovator on Stage: The Life and Work of Robert Brustein

Actor, director, producer, playwright, critic,impresario, columnist, author, teacher, editor, drama historian and scholar; Robert Brustein, founder of both the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, stands as a rare individual: a humanist who transverses the cultural landscape.

The exhibition traces Mr. Brustein's distinguished career from childhood photographs and college notebooks through his tenure at Yale documented with both photographs, printed articles, and correspondence with Eric Bentley, William Styron, Jules Feiffer, and Meryl Streep; up through his years as founder of the American Repertory Theatre. The exhibition is rich in photographs, posters, programs, awards, and correspondence from friends such as Art Buchwald and Philip Roth and professional colleagues such as Elliot Norton, Christopher Walken, and Andrei Serban. Mr. Brustein's prodigious literary output is also represented from Theatre of Revolt up through The Siege of the Arts as well as an Italian transcription of Nobody Dies On Friday and a Japanese ediition of Six Characters in Search of an Author. Under his leadership, the American Repertory Theatre developed an international reputation and, in the process, enhanced the standing of American theatre on a global stage.

The exhibition will run through November 2004. Exhibition hours are Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM.