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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Robert Brustein

Theatergoing is a communal act, moviegoing a solitary one.

Robert Brustein

[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.

Robert Brustein

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.

Robert Brustein

The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it.

Robert Brustein

Robert Brustein

Robert Brustein

Born: April 21, 1927

Died: October 29, 2023 (aged 96)

Bio: Robert Sanford Brustein was an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, writer and educator.

Known for:

The theatre of revolt (1964)
Reimagining American theatre (1991)
Cultural calisthenics (1998)

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