The Company Way: What Happened to the Acting Ensemble Ideal
When the resident company model was more prevalent in U.S. theatres, actors had the chance to put down roots in a community. Is that dream over?
All Stories About Robert Brustein
This Month in Theatre History
March looks back on a musical comedy duo, a Carolina laureate, A Cherry Lane icon, the Living Theatre, and a Fornés tetralogy.
Robert Brustein Raised the Bar for Us All
The founder of Yale Rep and ART had intellect, idealism, and indignation to spare, and he put it all in service of the theatre he wanted to see in the world.
Michael Feingold: A Life in Review
In his lifelong affair with the theatre, he could be a possessive, even jealous lover, but both his intellectual acuity and his abundant humanity shone through all his writing.
A Critical Lion in Winter: Robert Brustein Looks Back
The legendary critic and impresario is still writing every day, though he’s largely left the battlefield to other warriors.
How Much Is a Theatre MFA Worth?
What the crisis at Harvard’s ART Institute says about the precarious state of theatre training in higher education.
Ringside? Let’s Take Down the Ropes
Theatre ought to grow our moral imagination in a time of crisis. How do we get there—and who is ‘we’?
The Man Behind the Plays
Who was Shakespeare, anyhow? Do even the experts really know? And why should anybody care?
Armageddon in Boston
An artistic director recalls how an iconoclastic theatre took root in recalcitrant soil.
The Critic as Thinker
A discussion at the Philoctetes Center of New York City on how Bentley, Brustein and Kauffman reimagined theatre criticism.
