Millennial Stages: Essays and Reviews 2001-2005

Author:   Robert Brustein
Publisher:   Yale University Press
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9780300203394


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   31 May 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Millennial Stages: Essays and Reviews 2001-2005


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A major figure in the world of theater as critic, playwright, scholar, teacher, director, actor, and producer, Robert Brustein offers a unique perspective on the American stage and its artists. In this wise, witty, and wide-ranging collection of recent writings, Brustein examines crucial issues relating to theater in the post-9/11 years, analyzing specific plays, emerging and established performers, and theatrical production throughout the world. Brustein relates our theater to our society in a manner that reminds us why the performing arts matter. Millennial Stages records Brustein's thinking on the important issues ""roiling the national soul"" at the start of the twenty-first century. His opening section explores the connections between theater and society, theater and politics, and theater and religion, and it is followed by reviews of such landmark productions as The Producers and Spamalot, Long Day's Journey into Night and King Lear. In his final section, Brustein reflects on people and places of importance in the world of theater today, including Marlon Brando and Arthur Miller and Australia and South Africa.

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Author:   Robert Brustein
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Imprint:   Yale University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9780300203394


ISBN 10:   030020339
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   31 May 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Brustein not only provides an important chronicle of an ephemeral art but also applies a historically informed and sophisticated intellect to theater criticism. -Jonathan Kalb, Hunter College, CUNY Reading these essays by Robert Brustein is pleasurable, sometimes challenging, and always stimulating. -Christopher Durang, playwright As a writer, Robert Brustein is America's most intelligent theatre critic/author. -Robert Wilson, Director Robert Brustein is the rarest of rare amphibians: a powerful theater practitioner who is also a powerful critic. The essays in Millennial Stages, startlingly wide-ranging, energetic, and impressive, show Brustein at his best. Savvy, fearless, opinionated, and fathomlessly curious, he is at once steeped in the classics and alert to the most recent tremors on the cultural seismograph. Bravo! -Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Robert Brustein is an artist and intellect who has done more to connect the life of the theater and delight mind than any thinker since Eric Bentley. Brilliant and infuriating, his criticism is indispensable and his voice is irreplaceable. He ennobles our sometime tawdry profession with his integrity and intelligence. -Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, Public Theater


"“Brustein not only provides an important chronicle of an ephemeral art but also applies a historically informed and sophisticated intellect to theater criticism.”—Jonathan Kalb, Hunter College, CUNY    “Reading these essays by Robert Brustein is pleasurable, sometimes challenging, and always stimulating.""—Christopher Durang, playwright ""As a writer, Robert Brustein is America’s most intelligent theatre critic/author.""—Robert Wilson, Director “Robert Brustein is the rarest of rare amphibians: a powerful theater practitioner who is also a powerful critic.  The essays in Millennial Stages, startlingly wide-ranging, energetic, and impressive, show Brustein at his best.  Savvy, fearless, opinionated, and fathomlessly curious, he is at once steeped in the classics and alert to the most recent tremors on the cultural seismograph.  Bravo!”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare   “Robert Brustein is an artist and intellect who has done more to connect the life of the theater and delight mind than any thinker since Eric Bentley. Brilliant and infuriating, his criticism is indispensable and his voice is irreplaceable. He ennobles our sometime tawdry profession with his integrity and intelligence.”—Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, Public Theater"


Author Information

Robert Brustein, founding director of the American Repertory Theatre and of the Yale Repertory Theatre, has been a key figure in American theater for the last forty years. Drama  critic for The New Republic since 1959, he is  the author of fourteen books, seven plays, and twelve adaptations. Now Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University, he lives in Cambridge, MA, with his wife, Doreen Beinart.

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