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Coverage dated October 29, 2023

Robert Brustein, theater critic and pioneer who founded stage programs for Yale and Harvard, dies

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Robert Brustein was a critic and playwright who founded two of the leading regional theaters in the country. He died Sunday at the age of 96.

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    Robert Brustein, theater critic and pioneer who founded stage programs for Yale and Harvard, dies (opens WMUR)

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    Robert Brustein was a critic and playwright who founded two of the leading regional theaters in the country. He died Sunday at the age of 96.

  2. Fortune

    Robert Brustein, great man of American arts who revolutionized Yale, Harvard and the regional theater, dies at 96 (opens Fortune)

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    Over the course of his long career, he was instrumental in the development of Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Sigourney Weaver, and many others.

  3. Los Angeles Times

    Robert Brustein, a theater giant at Yale and Harvard, dies at 96 (opens Los Angeles Times)

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    Robert Brustein, critic and pioneer who founded stage programs at Ivy League institutions, championed nonprofit theater and tangled with playwrights Samuel Beckett and August Wilson, dies at 96.

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