Robert Brustein

Robert Sanford Brustein (born April 21, 1927 in New York City) is an American theatrical director, producer, playwright and critic. He founded both Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has been the theatre critic for The New Republic since 1959. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University and a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Suffolk University in Boston, as well as a blogger for the Huffington Post.

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• [The] kind of thinking [...] which refuses to make distinctions among artists on the basis of color or nationality or gender, which insists on inclusion rather than exclusion, is hardly fashionable with the current tribalism known as multiculturalism and cultural diversity. But it represents [...] the only kind of thinking that can prepare the way for great art, and builds the path to a reconciled society.
  • "More Noise Than Funk", The New Republic (3/4/1996) - review of the George C. Wolfe / Savion Glover musical production Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk at the Public Theatre in New York