At 85, Robert Brustein looks back and ahead
Founding artistic director of two of the leading regional theaters in the country, the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theater. Provocative and influential drama critic for The New Republic for half a century. Dean of the Yale School of Drama, where he became an early champion of such students as Meryl Streep and Christopher Durang. Author, teacher, director, playwright, sometime actor, and mentor t…