Robert Brustein

Robert Brustein
Brustein in 2011
Born	Robert Sanford Brustein (1927-04-21)April 21, 1927 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	October 29, 2023(2023-10-29) (aged 96) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Theatre critic, producer, playwright, educator
Education	Amherst College (BA) Yale University Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Spouse	Norma Ofstrock ​ (died 1979)​ Doreen Beinart ​ (m. 1996)​
Children	2 stepsons, including Peter Beinart

Robert Sanford Brustein (April 21, 1927 – October 29, 2023) was an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator. He founded the Yale Repertory Theatre while serving as dean of the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as the American Repertory Theater and Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a creative consultant until his death, and was the theatre critic for The New Republic. He commented on politics for the HuffPost.

Brustein was a senior research fellow at Harvard University and a distinguished scholar in residence at Suffolk University in Boston.^[1] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999,^[2] and in 2002, was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.^[3] In 2003, he served as a senior fellow with the National Arts Journalism Program^[4] at Columbia University, and in 2004/2005, was a senior fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts Arts Journalism Institute in Theatre and Musical Theatre^[5] at the University of Southern California. In 2010, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.