Learning from Robert Brustein

Robert Brustein, photograph courtesy of Mark Alan Lovewell

From 2014 to 2016, I attended graduate school at Harvard University’s American Repertory Theatre, as a major in dramaturgy. During my time there, I took two classes with the theatre’s founder, Robert Brustein, who passed away last weekend at the age of 96. Brustein’s accomplishments inspired reverence: theatre critic for The New Republic, professor at several of the finest universities in the country, founder of both the Yale Repertory…